No. I’m advocating for us to try for the best possible version of our future. It may be inevitable, but I’m not interested in hoping for a world where we consider the loss of a hundred million people under the final spasming throes of a dying capitalist oligarchy to be an acceptable loss. Yes, it would be ultimately the oligarchs’ fault, but I still couldn’t live with myself if I were the one advocating for it.
Nobody is advocating for that, though. Revolution is very rarely that bloody, you need to look at historical example.
I was hoping that my ad absurdum example was clear. I just meant “a very large number.”
Either way, I certainly hope nobody is seriously advocating for that. It would be quite bleak if that were the only way change could ever occur.
Revolutionaries can’t just “do a revolution,” we prepare for it so we can succeed when it happens. This is how revolution has occured historically, and there isn’t really a way to avoid it with any reasonable chance of success.
