Word of mouth is the easy answer.

Social media might censor most discussions on the revolution, but there are still plenty of places online where people can discuss these things. Also the most likely source for a person to learn about revolutionary demonstrations (or what have you) is an irl comrade.

The purpose of the phrase “The revolution will not be televised” is media will not publicise the revolution, nor market it, nor control the narrative on it. The revolution will be undeniably proletarian, undeniably our voices, and undeniably happening. At the same time, they will try to distort the revolution, they’ll keep the masses from seeing the status quo’s response. They’ll publish hit pieces against the leaders. They’ll bend the aims to be as unapproachable as possible. The revolution on television will not be the revolution in the streets.

The television will try to convince viewers that people peacefully marching in the streets to make themselves heard are violent looters. The television will spend too much time likening the revolutionaries to thugs, gangsters, and the sort. The television will say and do what it must to make old white voters terrified of accepting the voices of the oppressed. The revolution will be on TV, but it will not be televised.

This was true in the 2011 OWS protests, and 9 years later it was even more true during the 2020 BLM protests. What MSM has control over made sure people were more aware of looters, squatters, and the shady sort. They were only accurately documented in the places MSM has little grasp of. Which is why streams and Twitter posts were so important two years ago, and Facebook was so important in 2011. The revolution will not be televised, but it will be live-tweeted and twitch streamed. It will be on Reddit and Tumblr. This is one of the reasons decentralizing the internet is so important, all of those mentioned websites actively censored the BLM protests. Lemmy, Utreon, Mastodon, and others would never.

I’d assume through traditional in-person community work (which will then hopefully expand gradually), as well as through federated alternative online platforms like Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube, etc.

The 1381 Peasant’s Revolt managed to spread before even the telegraph existed (pity they trusted the King). I don’t have a ready answer because I’ll admit I’m not a clever person, but I believe that there’s always a way, if one takes enough time and dedication to figure how.

Can only speak as an American about America, but my opinion is that so much of the current legwork of building revolutionary potential will be generational work.

For good reason Millennial and Gen Z are overwhelmingly anticapitalist, even if class consciousness hasn’t fully developed for most to formally identify as communist. Not only that, racial and ethnic animosities are way more reduced with Millennials and Gen Z too, which is one of the primary contradictions dividing American workers.

The next generation of youth raised by these current generations will likely only grow more radical. Things are certainly only going to get worse here for the majority of people economically. Obviously socialism in the US isn’t some inevitible prophesy, but baby boomers dying and aging onto irrelevancy is very bad news for the ruling class.

You know that Tracy Chapman quote? “They’re talking about a revolution. It sounds like a whisper.”

IRL word of mouth and in-person meetings are very effective, and as others have mentioned, alternative platforms when communicating online.

We’ll televise it our damn selves

If you kill enough of the Bourgeoisie, you can’t be ignored.

when there are smartphones, there’s a way for word to spread

But it will be! By China (maybe)