Can’t reblog this post cause op has me blocked so I’ll just respond here:
And how many people are dying as “acceptable collateral damage” due to capitalism and the global structures of imperialism that churn through the lives of workers in the global south? Also, iterative change within the system (if it even worked) is just a commitment to more and more years of people dying and suffering so their blood can fuel the gears of business.
You view the violence necessary to uphold this system as moral neutral, as not violence because it is non-transgressive, or you are ignorant of its existence, but it is the ongoing price of the status quo. How many diabetics have died because they couldn’t afford insulin, how many other disabled people died because they couldn’t afford care, how many exploited nations in the imperial periphery have a paucity of medical care because their wealth is continually looted?
The hypothetical power cuts under a revolution factor in for you, but not the deaths due to the repeated failures of the Texas power grid, let alone the deaths of the miners around the globe who dig up rare earth metals for a pittance so we can have cheap consumer goods.
A revolution is no more violent than that which you perceive as peace, because your worldview views the capitalist state as an authority that is ultimately just in its wielding of the monopoly on violence










