On 12/28/2013 3:24 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > Upheaval this coming year in the US is very likely because all they > did in 2008 was slap a band aid on the economic problem. The wound > now has festered and little or nothing can be done to fix it. People > are going to be screwed and more forced into poverty while that tiny, > tiny percentage of rich punks make out like bandits (I think we should > do something about that). There's probably never in the history of the world that there has been a revolution based on poverty. Most revolutions are the result of political or religious ideology, not economics. It's pretty difficult to be revolutionary when you are broke and hungry because you can't even afford ammunition to fight with.
And, a revolution based on economics would hardly be an improvement anyway - any group that gets power is not going to want to share that power with the people. There's always going to be an underdog and a ruler, unless you're thinking there is going to be a heaven on earth. The American ideal is the closest the world has ever come to an egalitarian society based on freedom of the individual to indulge in a free market enterprise. You're not going to get that from communism, socialism, or a combination of these as long as there is an authetarian regime in power. And, certainly you're not going to get a free society as long as there is inequality based on forced governance. The only recourse you have for change is through a democratic process. And anarchy would not solve any of our social problems in a modern world - it would just bring chaos.
