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[Anonymous No.2050302]

Suggest me some revolution organization, planning and execution guides. Written by successful revolutionaries if possible.

[Anonymous No.2050321]

Mein Kampf

[Anonymous No.2050325]

Ayn Rand is a good book imo

[Anonymous No.2050331]

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/jewtp/dylan_ratigans_mad_as_hell_movement_rapidly/c2blkcr

You won't find one written by successful revolutionaries because their successes were for the most part boiled down to luck and the historical circumstances which are now very very different.

[Anonymous No.2050337]

>>2050325


she is not a book.

[Anonymous No.2050346]

>successful revolutionaries
>things still the same as they've ever been
>implying there is a guide to revolt instead of just jumping in the fire and adding gasoline to it and trying to shift the outcome in your favor

[Anonymous No.2050347]

>2011
>doesn't think that social reform is pointless
>ISHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.2050350]

Revolution is not guaranteed. It is a gamble. But the stakes, of course, are worth playing.

[Anonymous No.2050351]

I think being a successful revolutionary is really just about having good intellect, good political instincts and enough like minded people. I don't think there's any real guideline or blueprint that will help you if you don't have those things and if you do have those things you probably don't need a guideline or blueprint. Also depends largely on times and circumstances, obviously you could do everything the Bolsheviks done in their time and fail totally in your own.

[Anonymous No.2050357]

"The secret is really to begin."

“The force of an insurrection is social, not military. Generalised rebellion is not measured by the armed clash but by the extent to which the economy is paralysed, the places of production and distribution taken over, the free giving that burns all calculation . . .”
-At Daggers Drawn

[Anonymous No.2050360]

"If revolutionaries organize like those whose rule they seek to overthrow, they are defeated before the battle is engaged."
- Andy Anderson, "Hungary, '56"

[Anonymous No.2050362]

>successful revolutionaries

name one

[Anonymous No.2050364]

"We do not assume that our world is inevitably heading towards a liberatory transformation of social relations. Misery, work, starvation, slavery, war & ecological degradation are present on a scale never before seen. Why would we think we could have any effect upon this state of affairs? How could we believe that we can change the ever-accelerating rush towards a bleak future of greater social control & ecological collapse?
Because we are unwilling to lie down & eat shit while we are around."
- first paragraph in "A Murder of Crows #1"

[Anonymous No.2050367]

>>2050302
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara
On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao
The Green Book (Irish Republican training manual)

I'm not a huge fan of their ideologies, really, but they are informative. That being said, revolutions aren't made by reading books. They're made by doing shit. Reading can be helpful and provide the fundamentals, but most "revolutionaries" are paralyzed by inaction.

[Anonymous No.2050369]

"We are at war, even if the images of spectacular daily life try to make us believe the contrary. We have not chosen these social conditions ourselves, we can only choose from what position to fight" - Quale Guerra, winter 2003-2004

[Anonymous No.2050374]

Most revolts start out spontaneously, out of a reaction to a grievance that has happened way to often, i.e. whole cities burn because of excess of police brutality comes to light, more austerity cuts, etc.
It almost takes everyone by surprise, including "revolutionaries". In fact, ESPECIALLY revolutionaries.

[Anonymous No.2050378]

>>2050369
Are we posting riot porn with catchy slogans? Sweet tits.
The cause of all wars, riots, and injustices is the existence of property- St. Augustine

[Anonymous No.2050379]

La barricade ferme la rue mais ouvre la voie.

[Anonymous No.2050380]

In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.

[Anonymous No.2050383]

A single non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of total revolution.

[Anonymous No.2050413]

You're all a bunch of faggots, but here you go OP.

[Anonymous No.2050439]

Hey, OP, are you a Marxist or a faggot?

[Anonymous No.2050445]

mini-manual of the urban guerrilla

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2051787]

>>2050325
Rand is counterrevolutionary.
>>2050331
>You won't find one written by successful revolutionaries
Thomas Paine, bitch.

This thread can't be dead yet...

[Anonymous No.2051806]

Toffler, if only in the self-fulfilling prophecy sense. He could just be a historian, but that goes against everything known about the observer effect.

[Anonymous No.2051810]

Mao Zedong's On Gureilla Warfare, used during the Vietnam war

[Anonymous No.2051812]

>>2050331
Trotsky, one of the most manly man ever.
Go read Trotsky OP.

[Anonymous No.2051817]

>>2051812

>trotsky
>not counter-revolutionary

full retard

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2051826]

>>2051817
Being counter to Stalinist Leninist Bolshevism, is not counterrevolutionary.
The revolution isn't about restoring authoritarianism.

Unless of course Trotsky wanted to restore the Romanovs. I don't know much about him.

[Anonymous No.2051828]

>>2051826
Trotsky argued for constant revolution. I don't know how he really expected this to turn out.

>>2051817 doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

[Anonymous No.2051829]

>>2051787
Revolutions are vast changes in the mode of production. You want documents on insurrection, something relatively unrelated to revolution.

[Anonymous No.2051832]

>>2051817
Start reading more moron.

[Anonymous No.2051837]

Not exactly what you want, but along the lines:
"Bomb The Suburbs" and "Please Don't Bomb The Suburbs" by William Upski Wimsatt

[Anonymous No.2051839]

>>2051817
mfw

>>2051832
I concur.

[Anonymous No.2051846]

Troskyite = neocon

[Anonymous No.2051851]

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Будут новые победы,
Встанут новые бойцы!

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И Ленин – такой молодой,
И юный Октябрь впереди!

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2051866]

>>2051846 = tard
>>2051817 = Bolshevik

[Anonymous No.2051884]

In your opinion, why did the Soviet economy grow rapidly until the 70s, and then stagnated?

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2051900]

>>2051884
I know they spent way too much on defense. They had more nukes than us.

[Anonymous No.2052229]

>>2051884
>>2051900
that accelerated the problem but the real issue is centralized planning and control stifle inovation, preventing society from advancing to a post industrial state.

[Anonymous No.2052257]

>>2051884
Stalin's economic reforms began to stagnate since the Soviet premiers that succeeded him were terrible at handling the Russian economy. Kruschev got it half right with his concentration on an agricultural base that could sustain a better diet for the people, but then he went full retard and decided to plant farms in places where the soil was next to useless and everything fell over again.

[Anonymous No.2052944]

>>2051884
It didn't. Khrushchevs observation on quantitative versus qualitative growth was correct. Qualitative was impossible while repressing the working class. By the early 1960s macroeconomic growth had stalled.

[Anonymous No.2053186]

Their economy was all poorly planned out by the leadership. I read once that the Soviet Union produced no toothbrushes one year due to an oversight.

[Anonymous No.2053192]

>control+f From Dictatorship to Democracy
>no results
http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf

[Anonymous No.2053229]

>>2053192
>No replies
>People don't know about Gene fucking Sharp
Are you kidding me right now /lit/?