Why even be a socialist when it's so much simpler for me to just attend to some enterprising seminars and start a...

Newfag detected. Lurk more, kid.

if you're lucky enough to have one near you, join it, if not, make one.
Its worth pointing out that neither did Lenin, he thought there would be no revolution in russia within his lifetime or that of anyone in the party at the time. right now the world is looking rather unstable and has been becoming more so faster ever since 2008. The peace of liberal triumphalism following the defeat of the eastern block is over and things are developing quickly, there's no sense predicting revolutions but i think its silly to put revolution off as some far off thing, it may well be around the corner.
but there are millions of workers in the west who increasingly live an intolerable existence as social democracy withers away and their job security, ability to own a home and ability to maintain a family are all taken away as well as millions more factory workers in the 'developing' countries in such conditions of slavery. There is much more a proletariat in the world today than in 1917, if the that revolution had the possibility of taking the world, one today has that certainty.

Go do it then.

Capitalism will contradict itself into oblivion. Start your business OP, do what you must for yourself.

OP here, I like your response, and I'd like to think you are right, but it's just that I think that people reading socialist literature this day and age are not the ones who will ever seriously contemplate any kind of revolution at all. Besides that, I don't even know how it would look like in a first world country to try and have an attempt at socialist takeover.

thanks for reassurance, even if I join the "forces of evil", I'll keep lurking this board still and try to minimize the suffering of forces subordinate to my operations

lol u mad brah?

He saged my thread and wrote a passive-aggressive 4-word sentence. It's obvious that something rubbed him the wrong way about my thread.

You heard me.

I'd never have guessed