I don’t think that most people in contemporary America actually do have the economic or social power to be able to make meaningful moves against our own Imperial State.
What do you define as "meaningful"? Something that threatens to overthrow the State, or something that weakens the State? If the latter is meaningful then I'd say there's a lot that run-of-the-mill people can do.
being against something, but benefitting from it. Basically the American proleriat is comprised due to benefitting from Imperialism.
Those who benefit from imperialism are almost exclusively the capitalist class. Transnational profits pay out the shareholders first and then pay out the grunts when pigs fly. The working class in America benefit from imperialism very indirectly, if ever. Plus, this has to be considered against the workers' own exploitation, where it's hard to say if they have any net benefit. Nor are they in control of imperialism; they are controlled by capital which may then use them to justify imperial ventures.
A Mao-style land reform would do more for the average American than any amount of military or legalistic plunder. I would reach to say that freeing the working class from their expensive dependencies and scams that the market floods them with would also be a superior improvement.
At the very least we shouldn't divide the working class; we should look for a solution that is broadly applicable (with minor tweaks) around the world.
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What do you define as "meaningful"? Something that threatens to overthrow the State, or something that weakens the State? If the latter is meaningful then I'd say there's a lot that run-of-the-mill people can do.
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Those who benefit from imperialism are almost exclusively the capitalist class. Transnational profits pay out the shareholders first and then pay out the grunts when pigs fly. The working class in America benefit from imperialism very indirectly, if ever. Plus, this has to be considered against the workers' own exploitation, where it's hard to say if they have any net benefit. Nor are they in control of imperialism; they are controlled by capital which may then use them to justify imperial ventures.
A Mao-style land reform would do more for the average American than any amount of military or legalistic plunder. I would reach to say that freeing the working class from their expensive dependencies and scams that the market floods them with would also be a superior improvement.
At the very least we shouldn't divide the working class; we should look for a solution that is broadly applicable (with minor tweaks) around the world.
You largely aren't wrong but we still gotta do what we can comrade, gotta keep pushing the boulder up the hill.