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How many hexbears think there will actually be a popular revolution in the West in our time? (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by niph@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Genuinely curious. I keep thinking “it can’t get much worse without some kind of mass uprising” but the ability of the general population of Western states to just soak up suffering seems endless. Do you think we will actually see mass movements in the next decade or two? Or just slowly lurch into a void of ever-shittier liberalism?

By the West I mean like. Western Europe and the Anglosphere I guess.

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[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Not sure what your point is.

Vietnam developed a revolutionary and educated mass during occupation, achieved victory and independence, and still failed to achieve socialism despite attempting it because we live in a globalized economy and they had to choose between theoretical purity and letting the demons back in so people don’t starve to death after already facing massive deaths from war. It doesn’t matter how educated you are when the world is designed to strangle you.