The more you read of history, the more it comes back that every "new" political trend is aged, worn at the edges, crumbling inside the covers.
This goes in epochs. Certainly a lot of ideas that are rotting now were revolutionary a century ago, when they precipitated WW2.
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What fascinates me about this moment is that a lot of the current strains of politics seem to already be on life support, and new ideas gestating.
If this idea bears out, today's kids will be tomorrow's revolutionaries. And not in some boring, last-century communist conception.
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The attempt by PiS to set up a 21st century syncretic state in Poland is, at best, a desperation play - or preliminary to something else.
This works today, but in 15 years...?
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Not getting up in the morning for communist or fascist or even anarchist teens, but some of the weird shit the kids are coming up with ain't any of that.
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I used to be big into social democracy. If you're gonna make me choose between shitty old systems, I probably go with that.
But at best it's just "capitalism with a human face", pushing the violence and exploitation to the margins, still wasteful and ecologically destructive.
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So it's interesting to see kids growing up in the total certainty that all of this shit is just bullshit, and should be replaced.
Give it some time, and it probably will be.
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Most human political solutions are better AND worse than their predecessors, for some value of either. So what?
It's hard to do worse than killing off billions of people and making large parts of the planet uninhabitable for humans in the near future, though, tbh.
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If you could improve prospects for near-term species survival with forced sterilisation or a bioengineered flu, it's bad politics - even in the context of human politics, which are sort of fucking mediocre to begin with.
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I’m guessing I’m asking what is the standard to apply to even answer the question.
What does success look like?
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Oh, I don't think you can effectively construe it in those terms, until much later. We may well be dead by then.
A lot of revolutions are false starts or regressive, of course, but I think we're already seeing the seeds of those. When the next depression hits, which it will...
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... I don't think we'll see ww3, but probably political upheaval on par with ww2 era.
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Pre-ww1 you have the same mixture of belle epoque, "things were never better" elites with profound popular discontent, and cracks in the facade all around.
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