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There are only two types of Revolution.
There is true social revolution, and false revolution.
While a true social revolution requires real class struggle and implementing real progressive change, a false revolution requires only hollow ceremonial gestures. Unfortunately, the false revolution is the more prevalent form of "revolution" in North America, and the western world.
The false revolution can be bought in a store. There are entire stores devoted to propagating the false revolution. There are entire lifestyles dedicated to propagating the false revolution. It is a very broad movement. Skater youth, followers of the gothic movement, followers of the punk rock movement, false "anarchists" who do not know the first thing about anarchism... These are all faces of the false revolution.
Why does this false revolution spread? What purpose does it serve? The uses of this false revolution are many. After years of violent suppression of Socialism, the bourgeoisie discovered that an alternative "revolution" is far more effective in suppressing true revolution. By having the youth of the day rebel against society by listening to controversial music and skateboarding, they are much less likely to take up any meaningful revolutionary causes. Also, the bourgeoisie have finally discovered a way to sell products to a demographic of people that typically avoid mainstream consumerism. These are the two main purposes of the false revolution.
In addition to providing a meaningless bourgeois outlet for rebellion to the youth, and providing an avenue to sell them products, the false revolution effectively destroys all seeds of
dissent and revolution within the youth. The false revolution accomplishes no meaningful change, hence it is hollow, and eventually fills its adherents with a feeling of emptiness. Due to this emptiness, the youth eventually out grow their revolution, and look back on the whole thing years later as a passing fad. This prepares the youth to be conformist adults, blindly doing as they are told by their bourgeois overlords.
How can any person think that they are defying the system, when everything they consider revolutionary is a product of the system? How can any person think that they are making a fashion statement, when their "rebellious" clothing comes from a store? To own a skateboard, to listen to punk music, to have a body piercing; all of these things are products of the system.
By subscribing to the false revolution, you are subscribing to capitalism itself.
Revolutionaries create progressive changes to the society that they live in. Followers of the false revolution are, at best, controversial. Controversial is not the same thing as revolutionary.
Do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that false revolutionary lifestyles should be completely shunned. I am only saying that in order to accomplish true social change, the path of
true social revolution must be embraced.
There is true social revolution, and false revolution.
While a true social revolution requires real class struggle and implementing real progressive change, a false revolution requires only hollow ceremonial gestures. Unfortunately, the false revolution is the more prevalent form of "revolution" in North America, and the western world.
The false revolution can be bought in a store. There are entire stores devoted to propagating the false revolution. There are entire lifestyles dedicated to propagating the false revolution. It is a very broad movement. Skater youth, followers of the gothic movement, followers of the punk rock movement, false "anarchists" who do not know the first thing about anarchism... These are all faces of the false revolution.
Why does this false revolution spread? What purpose does it serve? The uses of this false revolution are many. After years of violent suppression of Socialism, the bourgeoisie discovered that an alternative "revolution" is far more effective in suppressing true revolution. By having the youth of the day rebel against society by listening to controversial music and skateboarding, they are much less likely to take up any meaningful revolutionary causes. Also, the bourgeoisie have finally discovered a way to sell products to a demographic of people that typically avoid mainstream consumerism. These are the two main purposes of the false revolution.
In addition to providing a meaningless bourgeois outlet for rebellion to the youth, and providing an avenue to sell them products, the false revolution effectively destroys all seeds of
dissent and revolution within the youth. The false revolution accomplishes no meaningful change, hence it is hollow, and eventually fills its adherents with a feeling of emptiness. Due to this emptiness, the youth eventually out grow their revolution, and look back on the whole thing years later as a passing fad. This prepares the youth to be conformist adults, blindly doing as they are told by their bourgeois overlords.
How can any person think that they are defying the system, when everything they consider revolutionary is a product of the system? How can any person think that they are making a fashion statement, when their "rebellious" clothing comes from a store? To own a skateboard, to listen to punk music, to have a body piercing; all of these things are products of the system.
By subscribing to the false revolution, you are subscribing to capitalism itself.
Revolutionaries create progressive changes to the society that they live in. Followers of the false revolution are, at best, controversial. Controversial is not the same thing as revolutionary.
Do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that false revolutionary lifestyles should be completely shunned. I am only saying that in order to accomplish true social change, the path of
true social revolution must be embraced.
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