No One Is Coming to Save You
Youāre not paranoid. Youāre awake. There is a war coming. Not a metaphorical one. A literal one. Itās already here in fragments. Crackdowns on students. Censorship bills passed overnight. Drones flying over your city. Biometric surveillance in your pocket disguised as āsafety.ā Tanks in the streets of Palestine. Mining companies turning forests into graveyards. The police training in Israel and coming back to treat every protestor like a terrorist. You can feel it. The masks are slipping. The empire is prepping for collapse and itās taking us all with it unless we get serious, right now.
This isn't just about being angry online or quoting Marx on a t-shirt. This is about survival. This is about learning what the revolutionaries before us actually did when faced with the full crushing force of a decaying empire. Lenin didnāt wait for a savior. Mao didnāt wait for parliament. The Black Panthers didnāt wait for allies. They read. They trained. They organized. They armed. They built dual power. And if you think you can wait it out while the world burns, youāre already lost.
You have to read. Start there. Read Marx. Not just the Manifesto. Read Capital. Read Lenin. State and Revolution. What Is To Be Done. Read Mao. On Guerrilla Warfare. On Practice. On Contradiction. Read Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth will gut you and build you anew. Read Cabral. Read the history of the Naxalites. Read how the Zapatistas operate. Read about the Viet Minh. The Algerian resistance. The Spanish CNT. Read the Panthers. Study how they operated clinics. Breakfast programs. Armed patrols. Learn why the state called them the biggest domestic threat and murdered them in their beds. Read the Rojava revolution. Read what real democratic confederalism looks like under siege.
Then disappear. I donāt mean run away. I mean become invisible to the state. Donāt tweet your location. Donāt tell everyone your plans. Donāt post every rally selfie with your face in it. This isnāt a clout game. The feds are watching. The cops are in your Discord. The platform isnāt neutral. Start using Signal. Encrypt everything. Learn OPSEC. Burn your old phone. Donāt keep weapons in your house where theyāre expected. The state has night vision. Drones. Facial recognition. You're not going to win with chants and idealism. You need discipline. You need structure. You need to vanish into the terrain like ghosts.
Build dual power. That means creating alternatives to everything the system gives you. Feed your people. Clothe them. Heal them. Educate them. House them. Train them. Make the state irrelevant. Thatās how the revolution wins. Not just with bullets. But by building new institutions beneath the old ones. And yes. You will need force. No empire has ever crumbled peacefully. They will bomb you. Jail you. Starve you. Isolate you. So learn guerrilla warfare. Study Che. Study Giap. Understand terrain. Communication. Sabotage. Learn how to move without being seen. How to supply without being tracked. How to strike and vanish.
Youāll need a political wing and a military wing. Youāll need your own logistics. Your own printing press. Your own clinics. Your own safehouses. The old Left knew this. Thatās why they lasted. Youāre not fighting a liberal government. Youāre fighting an imperial machine that has experimented on Black people. Napalmed Vietnamese children. Armed death squads in Latin America. Funded apartheid. Trained dictators. Dropped atomic bombs on civilians not once but twice. You think theyāll hesitate to kill you. You think theyāll blink if you get too loud.
This system is not malfunctioning. Itās working exactly as intended. Capitalism is a war economy. It devours the Earth. Pits workers against each other. Sells them weapons to die with. And when people resist. It sends in riot cops. Drones. Sanctions. It doesnāt care about rights. It doesnāt care about truth. It only cares about extraction and control.
But empires rot. They always do. Rome fell. The British Empire fell. America is falling. Internally collapsing from fentanyl. Debt. School shootings. Climate disaster. Rent hikes. Political rot. And when it does. It will drag everyone with it unless we are organized enough to survive the crash and replace it with something better. Not a rebrand. Not a new liberal party. A complete rupture. A new world.
So prepare. Not in fear. But in clarity. Build your community. Train in self-defense. Learn first aid. Stock supplies. Network with others. Study theory like your life depends on it. Because it does. Join or form a cadre. Educate the people. Speak to workers. Understand your enemy. Destroy liberal illusions. No one is coming to save you.
Either you build the revolution or you die in the collapse. The clock is ticking. Choose your side.
