Are we really sticking withThe Adjuster?
A name to rally behind is good, regardless of if it is Luigi or The Adjuster
I know, it just sounds like a movie starring Treat Williams and Steven Segal.
I mean, would you prefer the symbol of a revolution against entrenched power be this?
No, especially because we don’t actually know if Luigi is the guy.
If you think we’ll ever get universal healthcare without prying the capitalist’s claws out of their well bribed government first, you haven’t been paying attention.
Their bribe checks > any quaint peaceful protest that can be mustered.
All of that is true. But random CEO assassinations by lone wolves will only get us an expanded police state.
Violence will be unavoidable, but not just any old violence will do.
If they escalate, so do those they oppress.
The alternative is… this.
Oligarch’s AI deciding if your children are worth healing or if they’ve already been exploited too much to make it worth it to them.
The violence is happening now. I reject the notion that we should continue to just take it because the slaughter is quiet and according to plan.
This is quiet, not peace. Have you been to our tent cities? Do those victims of our economy look like they’re at peace?
If you look at my posting history, you’d see that you’re preaching to the choir.
But that doesn’t change the fact that adventurism isn’t going to get the goods. It’s a symptom of how bad things have gotten, but it’s not a solution. You can’t overthrow the largest global imperial hegemon in history that way. We haven’t even managed to pause a genocide in our name, never mind house, feed, and care for everyone.
Did you see who just won the popular vote? Many of these folks are as likely to cheer on the assassination of a socialist or trans person or an immigrant as a CEO. There isn’t a mass of class conscious proletarians organized for revolution right now. There is virtually no organized labor right now.
An alternative is the same as it’s always been, and it’s the only one that’s proven successful so far: organize, educate, and agitate a mass labor movement, and develop a vanguard party that’s backed by that labor movement.
