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be careful what you wish for, violent revolution never ends well for anarchists no matter who wins.
those who gain control of the state are loathed to give it up no matter their ideology. power corrupts.
How can you say "be careful what you wish for, violent revolution never ends well for anarchists no matter who wins." ? What about the outcome of the american revolutionary war ? What was it's outcome. Was the outcome not good ? Any revolution must have sound basis, logical basis. I am not talking about religious revolution. I am saying that USA today has been overtaken by idiot fascists. And even democrats won't do anything about it. Look at Luigi Mangione. How many democrats have openly supported him ? American people need to understand that trump and his friends are idiotic fascists. They are not completely like hitler. Hitler and his associates were smart and because of which they were able to destroy the world. But trump is basically a GATEWAY. If people tolerate trump today then there are people more evil and smarter than trump who will come to power. Imagine via trump if zuckerberg or musk or any other person comes to power. What will then happen to the common USA citizen ?
The Revolutionary War is an excellent example of the winners of a violent revolution turning around and wielding state power against their former supporters - look up Shays' Rebellion.
More generally, the outcome of the Revolutionary War was good for America's landowning oligarchy. Not so good for ordinary white Americans. Definitely not good for slaves, nonwhites, and the Native Americans of the continent - particularly since one of the biggest reasons for revolution was that the colonists wanted to break their treaties with Native American tribes, kill them all and steal their land, and Britain wouldn't let them.
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." JFK
A lot of angst for black people, and native americans back then and today is the inevitable outcome.
Everyone knows they're fascists, they never tried to hide it, they didn't win because the American people where ignorant of that fact.
I don't disagree that there needs to be revolutionary action in America today because that's the only effective way to fight fascists but again don't go thinking anything good will come of it because it never does.
Moderates and Anarchists are always first against the wall.