President Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia said on Sunday that the country’s House of Representatives had agreed to some policy changes that protesters across the country had been demanding over a week of demonstrations.
Thousands of protesters in several major Indonesian cities have been rallying since Monday in response to the country’s increasing cost of living and rising unemployment rate. Demonstrators demanded that the government cancel the high monthly housing allowances that lawmakers received, which many in the country see as lavish.
Mr. Prabowo’s announcement came after rioters on Sunday directed their rage at the homes of lawmakers and government officials, ransacking, vandalizing and looting the properties.
I’m not an expert in Indonesian politics, but it is kind of funny. A month ago, the only reason the protesters made international news was they adapted the One Piece pirate flag. Now they came true with their promise, looted the houses of lawmakers lol, and the ruling class was immediately rattled. If only we could loot Nancy Pelosi’s ice cream fridge
What is vague about that?
You asked what’s the first step, and I literally handed you the essential reading materials toward formulating a strategy. This essay from Mao is a prescribed reading that every revolutionary movement should start with, and one of the most important essays that Mao has ever written. Hence the first step. If you had actually read the essay, you wouldn’t be saying what you’re saying. You didn’t even bother to read what I posted.
Do you even know why you think you cannot defeat the “all-encompassing police state”? Because you don’t have a strategy. And do you know why you don’t have a strategy? Because you haven’t even done the most basic of class analysis yet. That’s why you don’t have a movement.
If you believe simply transplanting the organizational strategies (which you didn’t even bother outlining) of communists from 1925 warlord era China is how the western “left” overcomes the combined might of the various armed forces of the most powerful empire in history, then quite frankly you’re not serious or a materialist
Stop posturing and explain your work
I never said transplanting. Theory is not about rote memorization. Marxism-Leninism is a scientific approach and theories are tools to help you analyze the specific material and historical conditions and formulate the strategies forward.
Mao himself used Marx and Lenin together with plenty of historical references to devise his class analysis in China. These are the essential reading materials to help you get started.
I hope you don’t get blinded by your Westerner’s arrogance (don’t worry, it’s not personal and I’ve had many Western leftists talked to me like that and I’m used to it already) and accept that Mao has something to teach you about the movement you wanted to build in America.
So you think you know Mao, fine let’s test that
Identify the primary contradictions of American society in 2025 and what specific corrections does a revolutionary party require to sucesssfully apply the mass line?
Outline what talking points the political line of this party will be composed of?
How will this party leverage the contradictions and it’s correct application of the mass line to overcome the unified martial might of the American state?
How will this state counter COINTELPRO measures and maintain organizational cohesion?
why do you expect a random-ass foreigner on hexbear to do your homework for you? these are questions that require careful thinking by people who have direct experience with the conditions in question. you won’t find a good answer to any of these questions on the internet. organize. please.
Precisely, which is why I find xiaohongshu’s takes on the subject inappropriate and without basis
I don’t pretend to have all the answers to those questions, but I know enough to realize vagueposting about Mao online doesn’t come close to the answer
lmao I know no one on this site is talking up to me about organizing considering the insults and bullshit I’ve gotten over it
you won’t find the answers to those questions in an electoral campaign either. i find zohran charismatic too but come on. i dont know why you’re getting so defensive over XHS’s largely correct basic analysis
You sure about that, a socialist becoming mayor of New York sounds a path toward an answer to me
Correct? No.
Basic? Absolutely.
in what way and by what method?
if you don’t see the rampant treatlerism in even the left in the west idk what to say
Nobody here is stating that we cannot, only why we have not. This is basic ass material analysis friend.