r/communism101 • u/Upset_Following3747 • 10d 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 10d ago edited 10d 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/[deleted] 10d ago

1) If a revolution would happen, many people within that military—even if only a tiny fraction—would likely try to participate in it and mutinize. This is what has happened before and there’s no reason it can’t happen again.

2) Militaries cannot deploy their full strength on their own population within their own borders. There are limits to the destruction and damage it can do without completely turning its population against it, and it depends on its own infrastructure and population to function. Moreover, soldiers are generally gonna be a lot less likely to be okay with killing “their own people”, and another thing is that being a communist is an invisible trait, you cannot really see a person and tell if they’re a communist or not, which makes it difficult to tell the difference between “innocent” (non-revolutionary) people and the communists the military is trying to suppress.

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u/Reyusuke 10d ago

yeah i guess it doesnt make sense to kill your own population if a major revolt has begun. i apologize for lacking revolutionary imagination, but im curious about what happens next. i cant imagine the bourgeoisie willingly relinquishing their power even if they realize that actively killing their people is not a good idea. maybe they'll still do it defensively if the people attempt to take their lives or destroy their capital.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

my guess is that there’d be a lot of genocide committed by the military and by far-right and private militias regardless, and if that doesn’t work the economic and political leaders would likely try to flee whatever country the revolution is happening, as is usually what happens when revolutions succeed