Maybe there could be a far-left organization with enough fanatical members to carry out terrorist attack(s) "in order to ferment a communist revolution" (think Weather Underground/Red Army Faction mixed with Charles Manson's Cult and a bit of al-Qaeda thrown in)? In reality the attacks would be nowhere near causing a spontaneous communist revolution but if the members of the organization are fanatical and deluded enough, they might believe that's what will happen.
Where's the state sponsorship coming from?
Where's the "mass" that the RAF was in reasonable contact with? That al-Qaeda are in contact with?
In reality the attacks would be nowhere near causing a spontaneous communist revolution...
Propaganda by the deed has never caused a "spontaneous" revolution. Spain and Russia had multiple goes before hand, and were both reliant on workplace organisation. Germany and Hungary 1919 both were dependent on long standing militant syndicalism in industrial factories. Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968 were again dependent on workplace organisation. Italy had a failed go, a go-around on orders, massive CP and SP forces, a Maoist ultra circle, and Autonomia in the factories.
The US, in the post-war period, has nothing approaching the basis for this. The efforts to shift motor construction, rail, coal, docks leftwards were stymied by effective action by capital and the state. Recruitment of permanent working class activists to parties was limited, and the number of parties that conducted genuine theoretical work through industrial practice was yet more limited. (We can point at Braverman, Dunayevskaya and the "Radical Amerika" journal.)
The hysteric reaction of the SLA and Weathermen was radical liberalism. They're even less connected to the traditions of armed working class struggle than the RAF, who at least, were the most well known example of a milieu of anti-state armed West Germans.
Sure, if the shocks of the 1970s are handled incredibly poorly, there's the possibility of US industrial workers developing towards the position that Italian workers were in, minus the Communist or Socialist Parties, in the late 1950s: disempowered, militant and dominated thoroughly by capital. As opposed to the same except quiescent instead of militant.
The required changes are way back at the last attempt to institutionalise radical working class politics in the United States, in the IWW period. Or the attempt prior. Or the attempt prior. And the presence of an IWW continuation through the 1920s obliterates "communism" as we know it in the United States. Also wipes out the CIO. And it means a bloodier 1930s, at least at the scale of the Paterson strike or the Pinkerton massacres of UWM in the teens.
This thread is rather ASB, and needs to go through a reading of the preconditions of armed action in the left, and the preconditions of successful left organisation.
yours,
Sam R.