• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary practice. Random assassinations aren’t revolutionary. Organizing in a revolutionary party is revolutionary because it advances the revolutionary position.

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      2 hours ago

      If a revolutionary party starts a series of actions designed to topple the system and a person with no theory knowledge and unorganized carries out the same type of action, then it is not a revolutionary action?

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          58 minutes ago

          Let’s put an extreme example. There is a regime that is very top heavy. The assassination of that person will destroy the regime and change it by something else. That would be a revolutionary act, since it would topple a whole political system and replace it by something else. Now let’s assume a single person carried it out.

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            30 minutes ago

            This example is a fantasy, though, and isn’t how society works. This is why theory is necessary, not just vibes.

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              28 minutes ago

              Similar things have happened, although I don’t know if any by a single person but it is not unthinkable that they might, so the hypothetical remains valid.