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If you have to take your best guess, when do you think that the socialist revolution will happen in the USA? Please explain the reasoning behind your guess. (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think any of us are going to know when it'll happen. Mao and the Chinese communists started out with like 17 people, grew to a few hundred, were obliterated back to 20 something, and this was all just 15 years or so before they took power.

The July 26th movement in Cuba went from around 3000 people in 1953 to about 150 over a year after the failed attack on Moncada Barracks, then 6 years later in 1959 they had seized the state.

Literally no one predicted the USSR would collapse in August of 1991. So it can be fun to speculate on things but there are so many parts that the best attitude to have is to be ready for anything and stay organized right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

3000 people can be pretty substantial, especially in a country of 6 million.