>>Because the issue is never the issue. The issue is always THE REVOLUTION.
Yes it is. But THE REVOLUTION is a sham. It is slavery and poverty for the masses who think they’re getting equality, freedom, and security. Then, its wealth and power for the elites who led the Dumb mAsses to believe that they were abolishing that.
I love to talk to young “Socialists” because eventually I ask them what their value to the state is, keeping in mind that they want to abolish management and all the things that are attached to capitalism. I ask them if they are a miner, a farmer, or an assembler? Can they fix things? Can they build something that helps the collective? Or do they just consume and complain? I remind them that I used to be an industrial electrician and those guys were pretty well taken care of in the Soviet Union. But the skills of a student agitator and young philosopher are the skills that get you shot after the revolution is complete.
It always has been.
The French Revolution wasn't about Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. It was about POWER. The Russian Revolution wasn't about righting the wrongs of the corrupt Tsar. It was about POWER. Every other revolution has been similar.
The American "Revolution" wasn't a revolution. It was a secession.