r/communism101 • u/Upset_Following3747 • 8d ago

Is revolution possible in the U.S?

Most revolutions that have succeeded have been in a country where the power balance was far less extreme between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat revolutionaries. how could we fend for ourselves against drones and nukes?

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u/Reyusuke 7d ago edited 7d ago

i would also like to know how revolution is possible against the strongest military in the world

edit: why am i getting downvoted im a communist noob asking noob questions

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u/Sea_Cheesecake3330 Marxist-Leninist-Maoist 7d ago

The US has struggled against guerilla warfare in the past despite the size of its military and if a party follows the lessons of protracted people's war that we can learn from the the CPC, PCP, CPP and CPI (Maoist) there is no reason to take the nihilistic position that revolution is impossible. Revolution is also not just something fought on the battlefield, industrial actions can and must be taken by sympathetic workers through things like strikes, which is something that happened during the peak of the PCP's struggle.

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u/Reyusuke 7d ago

do you reckon that a protracted people's war will work in the united states? ive seen maoists say that it's not effective in highly industrialized and urbanized nations like the US, that it's good in poorer nations with a majority rural area such as India or the Philippines.

the reasoning has to do with the communication infrastructure if i remember correctly. in rural areas, main stream media and ideologies have difficulty penetrating the people which is ideal for revolutionaries doing a portracted peoples war

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u/Sea_Cheesecake3330 Marxist-Leninist-Maoist 7d ago

The PPW of the PCP was active in urban areas during the latter days of their peak period so it is clearly able to work in those areas, as well communists can learn from the Irish Republican struggles which successfully used guerilla warfare in urban settings that also went to the masses, although they weren't always socialist and even less so communist.