• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    To my knowledge there hasn’t been a successful socialist revolution that didn’t include what you would usually call a civil war.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      The Russian Revolution was successful at consolidating state power and building a bit of socialism for a few years before the civil war. I think a revolution in the US would resemble the Russian revolution far more than China or Vietnam or most other socialist revolutions that happened in a colonial context.

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      There’s the couple of places like the GDR that skipped civil war and replaced it with a world war and military occupation, which honestly feels more likely in the U.S. than a civil war leading to positive outcomes

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          Feels like something in North Africa, the Sahel, or West Asia coalescing into a new Socialist Federation somehow is exponentially more likely than USSA.

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            India is my preference. If India goes communist nearly 3billion people, nearly half the world, will be communist. The rest is inevitable. It’s the most valuable possibility.