Let's see how much Veeky Forums knows about 19th and 20th century revolutionaries. You have $12 to spend recruiting the leadership of a revolutionary army capable of overthrowing the USA. Remember that they have to work together, so consider the dynamics of their personalities and politics.
I've posted this once before and didn't get much in the way of responses. It would be nice to see Veeky Forums showing some historical chops.
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Lenin and Fidel and then keep the change
If you're buying Fidel, you might as well buy Che too.
Didn't see Che there, I'll grab him too
Just admit you're a tankie and have no idea who any of the others are.
Alex Jones should be -$5
To be fair, he has broadcast experience and can mobilize an army of crazed Truthers, anti-vaxxer soccer moms, and chemtrail whack-jobs.
Lenin, Stalin, and Che is the safest choice
You really think Stalin and Che would work together? The rumour is Fidel tipped the Bolivians off because Che's idealism was proving to be troublesome for him. I don't think there's any way Che would put up with Stalin.
This...the thinker, the manager and the agitator
I assemble Lenin, Marx, Che and Kim on the above pretense. I then shoot them all in the face and take great pleasure in doing so as my best-calculated effort to preserve the United States of America, the greatest nation in the history of the world.
Since we're all in a wacky time-machine due to the asinine nature of the OP's question, the immolation of Marx goes a long way towards obviating the relevance of much of the rest of the board.
>asinine
>expecting people on Veeky Forums to be interested in history is asinine
Gandhi for the face of the peaceful movement
Malcolm X for being the bad cop of the movement.
Alex Jones for amplifying the movement.
3+2+1=6
Who do you hire to teach you basic math?
Tito + Stalin + Stallman + sarkeesian + Jones would bring the us to her knees in a week.
You really see Stallman, Sarkeesian, and Jones sitting in the same room without one of them murdering and eating the others?
Gandhi, Trotsky, Stallman, Malcom X, Anita Sarkeesian and Alex Jones.
The group is pacifistic and diverse, therefore very unassuming and sympathetic. I chose Alex Jones as my last pick because he's there to contextualize the propaganda in a way that majority white Americans can relate to.
A successful overthrow is going to need to pull at all facets of society. Furthermore, while these figures seem pacifistic, most of them know when and how to use violence, and most of them know when and how to play the victim role.
They may not win the support of the military, initially, but if the military takes violent action against them it will turn the whole country against the military in protest, thus greatly demoralizing them.
I really wouldn't put anyone with a violent rhetoric up front and center, but they might prove useful working behind the scenes on strategy.
The main problem I see with your choices is you don't have a dirty tricks expert. You really need to have a Makhno or Tito, or even a Kaczynskyi, someone who knows how to use bombs and assassinations behind the scenes to make things happen.
Give me Gironimo on tactics, Sitting Bull on the face and Trotsky on ideology; and the change for lunch money.
I got this shit
Maybe we recruit pancho villa if we need some more firepower
Funny thing, when I posted this to /b/ a while back, almost everyone chose Kaczynski and considered him a bargain. Not a single person here has done so. I wonder why.
Che called Stalin "Daddy"
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Che: "I came to Communism because of Stalin"
I am doing the revolution on the cheap.
Good point actually. I agree with you there. Underhanded tactics will always be a necessity with realpolitik.
Stallman 12x. Free software will lead the Communist revolution that engulfs the globe.
kek
I take Jones to help bring crazies from the right to reconsider everything they know and make people prone to question the dependency to use the state and "muh globalists". Ideally, I'm the only one he communicates with lol I just need him to stir the shit pot. He eventually is either thrown away or BTFO'd by the bois and thanks to Jones helping people think outside the box (in the complete opposite direction tho lmao), I think it'd be able to give us a large audience on the right who, given the new anti-state and anti-globalist tendencies of his followers, can easily be pushed towards socialist anarchism.
Che would be a good figure on the international stage and I'd have him help support foreign workers and foreign leftist groups and movements like the PKK, ELZN, etc. Ideally he would also help upset minor/major capitalist countries abroad.
Zapata would be doing the same as Che, after I set him up as a rallying point for the southwest of the US to get the paisa on our side, and Stallman being bought to help spread more community involvement in technology shit to people on the west coast above the Bay Area and potentially the east coast. Malcolm X comes in to rouse the niggas and I'll direct him to hook up w/ BLM and push it into a more centralized BPP with a reboot of the community service programs they had, incorporating new stuff like community healthcare and community food banks and community policing (maybe with nation-wide police department boycotts?) based on an anarchist model.
We need to have people not only culturally invested in this, but we need examples IRL showing how coming together as a community. Stallman, Zapata, and X are all good for this shit and give me enough of the US to work with / able to sway to our side.
I'd buy daddy marx because why not. I'd get him just to see what analysis he can come up with now.
Practically, I'd pick Lenin to help coordinate things.
oop. meant to say I'd pick Lenin but then at that point I'd take out Jones :)
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>$5 for Kropotkin
>dude mutual aid lel
Kropotkin is widely considered the father of modern anarchism. He had incredible influence over everyone from Makhno to Malatesta, and his thinking on mutual aid has universal acceptance anarchists on both the left and right of the spectrum. Not to mention the fact that Conquest of Bread is incorporated into the practical activities of nearly all anarchist revolutionary movements today; the Zapatistas, for example, won't teach someone how to shoot a gun until she or he has demonstrated the ability to make a decent taco from scratch.
this chart misses general Giap
America doesn't stand a chance.
Trotski, Gandhi, Che, Malcolm X, le fat toe fungus man.
What do I win?