Tachanka [comrade/them]
The Tervell of Emoji-posting
the working class in the imperial core is definitely going to suffer, but that was a given. revolts and revolutions historically have happened when the underclasses become so miserable that violence is undeniably the only remaining option. Until then, a lot of people are just tired, and have to go to work tomorrow, and are afraid to go die fighting cops and troops, and are still holding out false hope for reformism. Revolution is a bus that departs when full. Independent of imperialism, the rich in the imperial core are getting richer, and poor in the imperial core are getting poorer. Inflation in all its forms is eating away at what little purchasing power our wages give us. Things are going to get worse whether or not there is a “clash of civilizations” between the core and periphery. In a way, I think the fantasy of some kind of JDPON occupation of the imperial core is a reproduction of the ideology of the ruling class: As in “we” can’t imagine ourselves having our own revolution any more than “we” can imagine the manufacturing jobs coming back. If the jobs got outsourced to the periphery, then the revolution got outsourced too, the logic goes. The revolution “used to be our job” but then it got outsourced to the people who are more oppressed. So now they have to “do our job for us”.
How does a global north third worldist stay sane in the face of what might happen, what we’ve done to others
1st worlders often go into this premature panic where they think the day of reckoning is coming for them, and that some prole living in a trailer in Appalachia is going to be executed by firing squad alongside the stockbroker in Manhattan, or the silicon valley exec, or the 4 star general, or the EU official with a nazi grandpa, and they imagine that some kind of mass Revolutionary Tribunal is going to happen against the entire 1st world and everyone living in it, regardless of class, regardless of inner colonization, when what’s far more likely to happen is a slow realignment, a slow decline of the core, a slow rise of the periphery. England still exists. Germany still exists. When the British Empire declined, when the 3rd reich collapsed, there was no “day of reckoning” against the common people there. Hell, even a lot of the explicitly guilty got away with everything they did. So I think it’s overly optimistic/pessimistic (depending on your class interests) to imagine some kind of gigachad revolutionary tribunal where every last NATO citizen is executed for their complicity or whatever. This isn’t to say that “nothing ever happens” or that everyone in the 1st world is innocent, mind you. I don’t think the average American is going to suffer 1/10th of what the average person in Gaza has suffered, even in the most optimistic third worldist outcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUD-sCvtDE0&t=24m34s
(also check the top comment lol)