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
The objective conditions of the US have almost no relationship to the objective conditions of China during its revolutionary period. This is obvious. If the analysis ends there then its not very complete. The objective conditions of tsarist Russia were also highly unique and not equatable to China’s without making broad and sweeping generalizations…
That’s also obvious. That still doesn’t explain the conditions of the US in anyway.
There is something to be said about comfort and the role it plays in the suppressing revolutionary spirit and class conciseness. However, that also doesnt fully explaine the issue. It also dismisses the long history of snuffing out truely revolutionary figures in American history.
The Soviets were not giving up comfort for revolution. Revolutionary China wasn’t giving up comfort to start a civil war. These places if anything lacked comfort in mass quantities. The quantitative accumulation of suffering engendered a qualitative shift in the receptiveness of their respective working classes to a revolutionary movement.
The USA as a settler colonial project, one of the largest settler colonial projects, which has dominated the world both militarily and ideologically, for more then a century, isnt lacking a revolutionary energy due to people watching Netflix, its because the economic and social relations havent deteriorated to the point that it impacts all fasets of the settler existence…