The system for all its significant faults is the only thing stopping Amazon from employing literal slave labor in the US, or any Republican who can pay / attract enough violent followers from firebombing every abortion clinic they can find the location of. Dangerous inequality of power isn’t something the Americans created; it’s a feature of the world which needs to be grappled with and moderated (whatever means you set out to use to do that.)
I’m not sure what you mean by “destroyed,” but revolutions which set out to thoroughly destroy the unjust system completely have a track record of making things much much worse (e.g. French Revolution, Russian Revolution). If that type of thing is what you mean by destroyed I would urge you to look at places where what you want to do has been tried, and what happened after.
By that argument, the American revolution shouldn’t have happened either. It’s patently absurd to claim all revolutions always lead to the same results.
Please don’t take this as anything other than a legitimate inquiry, as that’s how i intend it.
If we’re claiming that all of this bad is by design, and the point of the revolution was to create this system, then aren’t you saying that the revolution was wrong? Like, the founders intended to replace a monarchical people moving machine that killed some of the people and replaced it with a democratic one that kills some of the people. If they designed it that way, then the revolution was pointless, and if they didn’t design it that way, then the argument that the suffering is a feature (instead of a consequence) is demonstrably wrong…what am I missing?
The American Revolution didn’t destroy the existing system, it replaced the British control of the colonies with a federal control of the States, each of the colonial governments had a fairly smooth transition to state government, using the existing structure and most of the same people.
Removing a foreign occupier through violent revolution actually has a pretty good track record, yes (markedly different from destroying an unjust domestic system through violent revolution.)
Which one are you advocating for within the meme? Or something else? “Must be destroyed” can mean a few different things, all the way from FDR or Bernie Sanders which I’d be in favor of all the way to Russian Revolution which I’m not. I’m sort of just taking a guess at what it might be and responding based on the guess, but yeah I’m open to hear more explanation.
Removing a foreign occupier through violent revolution actually has a pretty good track record, yes (markedly different from destroying an unjust domestic system through violent revolution.)
You realize that Britain was not a “foreign occupier” at that point, yes? Likewise, most liberal democracies you have now are results of revolutions against the monarchies. Exactly how do you think the world changed from monarchic feudalism to capitalist democracy? Magic? The Kings abdicated because they were all just nice people?
Which one are you advocating for within the meme?
You’re in an anarchist server talking to an anarchist. Take a wild guess :D
