The US labor force as it exists will not exist in a socialist state.

We will need to rebuild the agricultural labor force. Industrial mono-cropping cannot continue if we want to have a food supply in 50 years.

We will need to rebuild the industrial labor force. US infrastructure is in ruin. We are not equipped to adjust to the changing climate. So much labor is required to build a country less dependent on fossil fuels.

The service economy only exists because our hyper-exploitation of the Global South and our natural world. Using its symbols shows that we are not interested in building a new world.

If you wanted to adequately represent American labor in the 1930's, you would use a bindle and a cardboard box. The CPUSA used the hammer and sickle.

  • blahaj [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I agree that the service economy is dumb but I am not sure that I agree with the other takes

    • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      They are like distorted versions of what I think is the truth. Industrial monocropping is very efficient, its just overdone. US infrastructure is in not nearly as bad of a shape as many people think, much of it needs maintaince, but that's easy to do once the political will is there. Less fossil fuel intensive production methods aren't actually that much more labor intensive.

      • PhaseFour [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Industrial monocropping is very efficient, its just overdone.

        It is very efficient so long as there is still a supply of topsoil to destroy. And we are on a very short time table for that, a handful of decades. The process of regenerating topsoil is extremely labor intensive.

        US infrastructure is in not nearly as bad of a shape as many people think, much of it needs maintaince, but that’s easy to do once the political will is there.

        I do not know how to seriously engage with this statement. Both under-stating the current degradation in this country, and pretending that we are not currently on the worst-case trajectory for climate change...

        Much of California has roving blackouts throughout the year. Most cities are experiencing serious flooding several times more often than was ever planned for. NYC and St. Louis are going to be underwater in a few decades. I do not have the time to go through all the major infrastructure failures that will happen in the next couple decades.

        My comment is understatement, especially since we are blowing past every single tipping point for climate much faster than expected.

        Less fossil fuel intensive production methods aren’t actually that much more labor intensive.

        Source?

        Are you trying to say that, for example, the construction of rail across the US is less labor intensive than maintaining an existing highway system? The US infrastructure that does exist was built on the assumption fossil fuel extraction.