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[-] rufuyun@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Well sure, you just push yourself around in your office chair at your battlestation

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Yaaass! You just have to vote blue no matter who!

[-] dropdrip@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Yes; complete it. Only partial-revolutions are illegal.

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

It has to be approved by OSHA first

[-] chloroken@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lmao, I love Lemmy. Such a good question, albeit silly.

The answer is no. There is no legal way for the oppressed to revolt, from contemporary times to antiquity. The ruling class does not budge unless two things occurs: 1) revolutionary violence that they can't stop, 2) the ruling class realizes another mode of production is superior.

The latter has never happened without the former forcing their hands. No slaveowners wanted to give up their free production on the back of slaves, but after feudalism came into fashion off the back of even more organized violence than slave societies could muster, the ruling class realized that a society can produce more if the workers were properly incentivized to want to work, instead of being beat and killed if they don't.

To go from capitalism to socialism is similar. Capitalists will fight tooth and nail to continue their oppression, and only respond to violence. But just like slaveowners, capitalists don't realize they're leaving a lot on the table, societally and ethically, by continuing to propagate liberalism and quash communist revolutions.

[-] pineapple@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It looks like you missed that this was posted on shitty ask lemmy.

[-] batterystapled@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

By going around something? Planets do it pretty regularly.

[-] BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

by everyone voting in revolutionaries

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

and having peaceful demonstrations

[-] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Strictly speaking, not really. But every revolution starts small. Live youre most authentic life in a way that inspires others to live theirs. The fascists want conformists. So just dont conformand you are revolting.

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