Here's a little secret for you: Just cause things are pretty good for you doesn't mean they are for everyone.
Nope, coz whilst acknowledging how much we have improved the rights & conditions generally, we continue to work on this.
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Actually looking at what has worked &what still needs improving is likely to be more effective than saying 'Everything is awful! Revolution'
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What worked is radical direct action. Stonewall is what worked. Wildcat strikes are what worked. Antifascist action is what worked.
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The Battle of Cable Street started the decline of fascists in the UK and BLM protests moved the US in the right direction.
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Sankara taking over Burkina Faso allowed it to progress, workers/students doing a general strike in May 1968 in France pushed things forward
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Zapatistas have been bringing the first nations people of Chiapas out of poverty through their revolution.
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Tito defeated the Ustaše through a communist partisan force that overhauled its government.
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We find that, time and time again, direct action, not the workings of liberal democracy, bring us toward liberation.
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But what of the other way? Well, fascists have always taken power through parliamentary procedure of liberal democracies.
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If you don't understand that we can look at progress, measure it, see what works & what doesn't & improve, I can't help you.
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