The Perils of Revolution

A comfort to those on the left currently in despair over the election of Donald Trump, and a warning to "our side": Things could have been much worse for the Ruling Class. A REAL Hitler could have emerged to lead the people. Especially if Donald Trump had been defeated.

The conclusion to Angelo Codevilla's great 2010 essay, America's Ruling Class
And the perils of revolution.

How the country class and ruling class might clash on each item of their contrasting agendas is beyond my scope. Suffice it to say that the ruling class’s greatest difficulty — aside from being outnumbered — will be to argue, against the grain of reality, that the revolution it continues to press upon America is sustainable. For its part, the country class’s greatest difficulty will be to enable a revolution to take place without imposing it. America has been imposed on enough.

So, how did the revolution begin?

The real loser was not the puppet, but rather the big government machine behind the puppet pic.twitter.com/QWhzI2kamT

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2024

They live in a different world . . .

The Ruling Class sort of put itself into a bind with the constant narrative that Donald Trump was "destroying democracy" by protesting the results of the 2020 election. The widespread riots that many feared did not seem to take place.

Even though:

Kamala Harris said the word "fight" 20 times in her concessions speech.

20 times. I counted.

She also said "and we will continue to wage the fight . . . in the public square".

Impeach her. Their rules, not mine.

Viva Frei (Canadian)

I can hardly wait for the establishment left's fighters to get going again:

Here in the San Joaquin Valley, one talk radio guy who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area had a short segment on election day about 4:00 P.M. Pacific Time concerning businesses which were being boarded up most notably (on the West Coast) in Seattle, Portland and Oakland. He noted that the defenses erected in Oakland were especially remarkable.

But no great conflagration seems to have occurred so far. There has been a lot of huffing and puffing in writing, but where are the organized protests?

Was the first organized march by "New Communists" instead of Democrats?

I ran across a couple of photos on November 7 of "Revolutionary Communists" marching "on 5th Avenue heading to Washington Square".

Not a real big group of marchers. I looked up their website so you don't have to risk getting ads on your computer. . They have addresses and/or phone numbers in NYC, Chicago, the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Pretty impressive - giving the dismal quality of their literature. They don't look real scary. But don't underestimate their power. They have endorsements!

These are not ordinary American communists. They are Revolutionary communists who are more scientific than Marx due to some philosophical breakthroughs by their guru, Bob Avakian (B.A.). I was not able to clearly identify these breakthroughs (maybe including feminism and LGBTQ stuff).

Their signs may be a bit misleading. They may give the impression that they are supporting the Democrats, but they say they are exploiting the current moment of division between the leaders of the imperialist USA to accomplish TOTAL REVOLUTION!

Their literature is VERY repetitive and not well-organized, but as far as I can tell, their plan is to overthrow the USA by attracting thousands to be in the Party as the Vanguard of the Proletariat and millions of former "slaves" to be their grateful automatons. THEN they will conquer the whole world and eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons. This will likely be the easy part, because Russia and China don't have nearly the insight into communism that Bob Avakian does. He cites Soviet and Chinese communists of the pasts and goes beyond them!

I can hardly wait for Soviet Man to appear. That terminology is a little sexist for the RevComs, but the concept has not changed. The key to the appearance of Soviet People etc. is in their literature somewhere. I can just feel it. I know that a lot of people have read something like this in school . . .

The RevComs were brave to choose a well-known part of MAGA Country for their protest like Greenwich Village.

If New York City streets had their own royal court, Broadway would be the old king and Fifth Avenue would be its fabulous queen. Just saying Fifth Avenue evokes glamour, iconic stores, incredible museums, and beautiful parks. Beginning here in Greenwich Village at the entrance of Washington Square Park, Fifth Avenue passes the Flatiron Building, Madison Square Park, the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Central Park, the Met, the Guggenheim, Marcus Garvey Park, through Harlem and ends at 143rd Street. This most New York of streets began its life when its first leg from the park to 13th Street was approved by the city on September 27, 1824.

Its bicentennial was this year!

What is often forgotten from Fifth Avenue’s history, however, is that it used to extend south of Washington Square as well, through the South Village all the way to Lower Manhattan. . .

South Fifth Avenue did witness a redevelopment as the area became home to new burgeoning industries, from printing to communications. Oddly, as new cast iron buildings went up to house these new commercial ventures, the numbering started at the north by Washington Square Park with No. 1 South Fifth Avenue, and worked its way south with the numbers going up, in contradiction to the rest of the city’s south to north numbering system. South Fifth Avenue did have its renowned residents for a period, including Nikola Tesla and his laboratory at 33–35 South Fifth Avenue. But it wasn’t to last. Tweed was out, and by 1895 the businesses along South Fifth Avenue had enough of its bizarre numbering scheme, and so petitioned the city to have the name changed once more.

Fifth Avenue will be different under the joyful guidance of the RevComs' Vanguard of the Proletariat!

An unplug and reboot are needed.

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) November 7, 2024

Last week's thread, November 2, So many surprises so close to the election!

UPDATE: November 7 piece by VDH validates his comment to me the day before Halloween that he thought Trump would win: Harris Was Always Doomed.

The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us.

Instead, the great Trump comeback victory was clear by the last weeks of the campaign.

This piece is full of obvious and common sense reasons why Kamala could not win the election (barring some catastrophe in the final days before the election). It is a nice summary to bookmark, just to keep handy in case you know someone half-way reasonable who doesn't understand how she lost.

VDH was also right about things calming down (in the press, etc.) after the election at least for a little while.

Note: I also learned that AoSHQ has a regular lurker on staff at the Blade of Perseus site. Nice.

Comments are closed on last week's thread so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Music

Fanfare for the Common Man

Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

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