Not as the USA, naturally, but I’d give it a decade or two for that part of the world to go socialist. I don’t have any sort of complicated analysis for this, just the fact that my cousin used to work in a movie theater in the heart of conservative Montana, and reported that all her coworkers were communists; the fact that the settler libs I know are complaining about all the commies and pinkos around these days; all the record-breaking or otherwise historically significant strikes and protests and so forth in the past decade; the epidemics of this and that in American society; January 6th and the War in Ukraine showing a growing conflict in the world’s ruling class; things like that. The young don’t want to inherit a dying world; marginalized groups want justice; workers want their due; people are losing faith in the government.
I will not say that class consciousness is at the level it should be — for God’s sake, the last time I was in the occupied Dakota homeland, I saw some white guy with a 3%ers “Let’s Go Brandon” shirt at Culver’s. But I don’t think it will take centuries for class consciousness to grow in America. Not in our days of global connectivity. We can absolutely continue to grow the leftist movement in America, into something genuinely powerful, even without “mainstream” (i.e. Anglo) approval.
How many people alive in the early 20th century believed that revolution in Russia was just two decades away? If everyone else is saying it’ll take two hundred years, then I’ll say it will take twenty.
Not as the USA, naturally, but I’d give it a decade or two for that part of the world to go socialist. I don’t have any sort of complicated analysis for this, just the fact that my cousin used to work in a movie theater in the heart of conservative Montana, and reported that all her coworkers were communists; the fact that the settler libs I know are complaining about all the commies and pinkos around these days; all the record-breaking or otherwise historically significant strikes and protests and so forth in the past decade; the epidemics of this and that in American society; January 6th and the War in Ukraine showing a growing conflict in the world’s ruling class; things like that. The young don’t want to inherit a dying world; marginalized groups want justice; workers want their due; people are losing faith in the government.
I will not say that class consciousness is at the level it should be — for God’s sake, the last time I was in the occupied Dakota homeland, I saw some white guy with a 3%ers “Let’s Go Brandon” shirt at Culver’s. But I don’t think it will take centuries for class consciousness to grow in America. Not in our days of global connectivity. We can absolutely continue to grow the leftist movement in America, into something genuinely powerful, even without “mainstream” (i.e. Anglo) approval.
How many people alive in the early 20th century believed that revolution in Russia was just two decades away? If everyone else is saying it’ll take two hundred years, then I’ll say it will take twenty.