There is an old cliche, "He couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag," which some TV show put to the test about 50 years ago. They made a large paper bag and got a professional boxer to try to punch his way out of it. He couldn't, because of course the paper would simply sag away from his punch wherever he hit it.
Capitalism at its core is a paper bag -- and for nearly two centuries we have been flailing away at it unsuccessfully. Now two-hundred years is a blink of the eye historically. Nevertheless get's terribly frustrating, and every generation too many socialist revolutionaries, running up against this soft barrier (and aware of course that in overall results capitalism has been one continuous worldwide massacre), began frantically searching (thrsshing about I call it) looking for a way out of the paper bag of capitalism. All answers lead away from revolution. There remains only one answer that does not lead away: Build Mass Movements where you are with the materials at hand -- and see what happens. If and when anything works, that will, and nothing else.
A friend in the '60s quoted Lenin (perhaps apocryphally -- I have never discoverd it) to the effect that there were three revolutionary virtues, Patience, Patience, and Patience. Whether Lenin said it or not, he should have, and it is as true now as in 1848.
Carrol
Michael Smith put a recent post of mine on his blog, and it drew a comment quoting Samuel Beckett: " "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." from Worstward Ho)" It will do.