In the debate between the revolutionary position and the reformist position, the root dispute is over whether revolutionary suicide should be embraced. Revolutionary suicide is the idea that should the revolution demand someone lay down their life in the struggle against oppression, they ought to accept this prospect beforehand. This is a mentality which implies that for oppression to be defeated, the state will need to be overthrown—necessarily entailing at least some degree of bloody struggle, and therefore a potential for the freedom fighters to have to sacrifice their lives. Since the reformist position claims that oppression can be ended peacefully, it’s opposed to the concept of revolutionary suicide.
The claim that "the United States should be abolished" is ridiculous and will never win over the masses. It is both incorrect from a Marxist perspective (read literally ANYTHING Marx has said about the United States), and optically idiotic. This whole post glows.
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The claim that "the United States should be abolished" is ridiculous and will never win over the masses. It is both incorrect from a Marxist perspective (read literally ANYTHING Marx has said about the United States), and optically idiotic. This whole post glows.