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> the way forward is obvious: Revolution!!

We already had a peaceful revolution just a year ago: Occupy Wall Street. Did anything change? No, because the state can and will exert its violence against anyone trying to reform it.

Things need to get much worse for people to be willing to take on a violent revolution. I'm sure this will happen at some point, but then the best thing you can do is leaving the country. Most violent revolutions end in tyranny. Think of the Russian or Cuban revolutions. The US Revolution was a lucky exception.



A few hundred guys and girls living in tents are not going to impress the powers that be. The only reason they got as far as they did was because the media milked the story for as much as they could.

Canadian anarchists are not the right group to jump-start a broadly carried demand for change.

The US revolution was more akin to a war for independence.

The French had a revolution, and it came off pretty good. Unless you were rich, of course.




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