Jacob Cliff
8th December 2015, 04:53
Not to sound like some tinfoil-hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but I do think that the future of America, and for the majority of the west for that matter, is going to feature massive democratic decay and a sort of slow adoption of "oriental capitalism" -- the kind now emerging from China, Singapore, etc., with a large, oppressive government and a lessening democracy.
Now, obviously we don't want to replicate the Russian Revolution simply for the reason of fulfilling some fetishized nostalgic reenactment of the "first successful" socialist revolution, but I do think that the same sort of secrecy, strict, unbending centralism and discipline, various formalities, etc., that the Bolsheviks had when trying to evade the Tsarist Okhrana may come back in America with revolutionaries finding they need to evade the NSA, or whatever.
Is this maybe far-fetched, or do you think that, perhaps, the formation of a party before further democratic decay (just to get ready, at least) would be a step we ought to take?
Now, obviously we don't want to replicate the Russian Revolution simply for the reason of fulfilling some fetishized nostalgic reenactment of the "first successful" socialist revolution, but I do think that the same sort of secrecy, strict, unbending centralism and discipline, various formalities, etc., that the Bolsheviks had when trying to evade the Tsarist Okhrana may come back in America with revolutionaries finding they need to evade the NSA, or whatever.
Is this maybe far-fetched, or do you think that, perhaps, the formation of a party before further democratic decay (just to get ready, at least) would be a step we ought to take?