Prior to the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s, where the CIA installed a military dictatorship that the lives of millions, the country’s communist party technically did warn about the peril. The problem was that this warning had been made in a reactive way, and therefore wasn’t nearly enough to prepare the people to fight back.
I was wondering when he was gonna get to the point of what was supposed to be the plan…and then it ended lol
Right? I thought I had just read the introduction and then it just… ended. I seriously thought it was going to be 7X longer and I was prematurely judging by taking a critical note of his “early” statements. But… those were all of his statements lol
Honestly I don’t really think it was anything that we didn’t know already so I guess that’s good?
Like how video essayists all critique culture because it’s easy and nebulous, so too is calling for “resistance” or “organizing” and pointing vaguely at the collapsing imperialist state