(August 13, 2025 at 4:49 am)Deesse23 Wrote:(August 13, 2025 at 2:19 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: In my view trump won't be opposed (in a way of mass strikes, protests, etc.) till people will start going hungry - hunger was contributing factor to February revolution in Russia, material deprivation played a big role in Poland mass protests under "communist" regime and its eventual fall...I am even more pessimistic. Germans didnt revolt even after they had to live in the rubble that once was their cities, after almost all of architectural history was erased. Back then Germans had a high level of patriotism based on our history, and if anything, american patriotism and exceptionalism is on another level even compared to that, which will make it even more unlikely for americans to revolt. Its incredibly hard to explain to people that at a certain time the only real patriotic act is to oppose your country/government. The more widespread nationalism and patriotism (that specific variant that borders to jingoism), the more unlikely it is for them to rebell.
I have no idea how things will look like but I'm certain that morality and principles will be window dressing at best. It's hunger that moves the masses though I agree that blind nationalism will prevent people from seeing that they're in deep shit.
Quote:Would the February revolution happened if russians would have identified with the tsarist regime and Russia as much as americans do nowadays?
It's projecting present on the past I think. It's not that russians identified with tsarist regime but rather that peasantry more or less supported or were in favor of "father Tsar" which image was shattered after Bloody Sunday. Even then it took war, hunger and political agitation to overthrow tsar.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
