Climate: capitalist devastation.
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Who else thinks it will be the worsening climate crisis which will be the catalyst that finally brings world revolution?
If the human beings do not wake up from this nightmare and their stupid illusions we are going to be wiped out from the face of the earth. Workers are not ready for a world revolution. In Texas there was a big calamity where many children died and peoples are saying that it was god destiny
But leaving aside Christanoloons and imbecilic millenarians and such, the working class who inhabit cities and towns are going to be sweltering and suffocating, drowning and burning and losing everything.
I don’t think they’ll ever be calling themselves socialists, or thinking about Marx, but they’ll just do it: take the means of production out of the hands of the capitalists. They’ll do it because they’ll know they have to. Unfortunately not yet, and not until the very moment it’s survival or extinction.Or else, socialists must admit our confidence in the working class was misplaced, and also our faith in homo sapiens, and that our species is a miserable failure, in spite of our abilities, art, literature and science, a mere blip in the evolution of life on Earth, doomed to a very, very early extinction because of our own actions.
There another end of the world scenario you have missed — a comet or asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The late comrade Pieter Lawrence wrote a novel about this. In fact in it socialism comes about in sort of way you are suggesting. People — and governments — cooperate to deal with the threat and end up establishing socialism without setting to. It may not be your cup of tea as it’s not stupid humans who are cause the threatened disaster.
It can read here:
https://libcom.org/article/last-conflict
And here’s the review in the Socialist Standard:
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