The biggest thing about the left that I have absolutely no taste for (and probably also the biggest reason many black people distrust them) is this assumption that all the US needs is for people to 'suffer more' and then it'll magically bring about the revolution we all want. People are already suffering plenty and I think at some point they're right that there's a breaking point but I don't know if it is worth purposely getting us there by letting the GOP win.
Oh you are talking about Accelerationism, and it is a really obnoxious ideology, you see it both on the left and the right. I’m a generally an incrementalist
beyond the amorality of it, it also...doesn’t work. Like if you look at the successful revolutions in history, they don’t actually happen because the suffering hit a breaking people and people snapped, that is just a very romantic misunderstanding about revolution. Successful revolutions happen less from the people reaching a breaking point, and more from the state being unable to maintain their military. LIke an oppressive state can keep itself in power through military
LIke take the Haitian revolution for example, where you had a population who were living in an absoultely horrid state of oppression, the revolution doesn’t actually happen until the French Revolution rendered the Saint Dominique’s goverment incapable of preventing a revolution. Actually even then, it required a civil war between the planter class before a revolution was possible. Or in the Russian Revolution, that wasn’t possible until the Tsarist state had basically collapsed due to WWI. Or in the French Revolution, the monarchy literally couldn’t play their troops.
revolutions happen when the state can’t maintain its own military, not when the people hit a breaking point.
