But what about rail guns? Just a gigantic AR on a flatbed car, but it looks like an F150.
America is the national embodiment of a blank check to the war machine. This is absolutely something they would care about.
Oh I was saying we'd need that for America to get excited about trains. If we had a train based military that'd be funded to the hilt.
I would hope it's the puritanical work ethic; where Americans find themselves performing their labor with a sense of duty, and later bragging about how much more of the burden they could take when drinking with the comrades.
If we somehow had a real (and relatively smooth) transition to socialism, it would mean the end of a lot of bullshit jobs and a relatively open path to full automation. It would still be a long time until full automation can be achieved, and we'd have a lot of work to do for climate change preparation/mitigation, but it would at least remove the incentive to force people into working more hours than they need to.
Honestly, probably yee haw anarchism. I firmly believe that most Americans are more receptive to anarchist ideology than MLism. This is a somewhat biased take considering it's based on where I grew up, which was rural and super anti-government; maybe things are different for city natives. Even then there's municipal :LIB: ertarianism, though, which I've often found people to be very receptive to because it seems superficially benign.
Other potential aspects:
- Absolute rejection of traditional leftist icons like Marx or Kropotkin. Lots of gross praise for (and recharacterization of) founding fathers.
- Mandatory public service after high school. Not necessarily with the military; would likely see options for industrial work, possibly as a way to cut down on infrastructure costs, and also an option for fighting the massive fires that continue to appear every summer. Rich kids would somehow get an exception.
- Continued struggles with immigration issues.
- Increasingly decentralized agriculture, with municipalities beginning their own agricultural production efforts.
- Public housing that sucks and is poorly maintained, but probably more of it. People who live in public housing are still stigmatized.
- Drugs. Lots of drugs.
- Religiosity, free speech, and firearms.
- Bitter conflict with the Southern states, which resent the new form of government and are always on the verge of forming a breakaway.
- Universal healthcare that is expensive as shit because there's a public option but medicines/other medical technologies are still produced privately and sold to the government at inflated costs.
I think it would be easier to portray these people and communist/socialist as an extension of the revolution of the founder's/the american project, then it would be to get people to reject the founders wholecloth.
That's partially the argument aziz Rana makes in the two faces of American freedom, that radicalizing republicanism in a truly emancipatory way is socialism, and there's a variety of forgotten American socialist figures to draw from for that.
I mean don't forget people like William manning and Thomas Skidmore, Skidmores working man's party in 1830 directly inspired marx to some extent.
Absolute rejection of traditional leftist icons like Marx or Kropotkin
I'm chuckling at the idea that any American who isn't already a leftist having any clue who tf Kropotkin is...
Kropotkin has never been in American consciousness outside of like Boston and Chicago the one time he visited.
Continued struggles with immigration issues.
This wouldn't be popular with chuds, but I'd love to see a long term plan for a larger socialist union in the western hemisphere. The western hemisphere alone has almost every resource needed for an advanced socialist society that encompasses everyone, especially with an efficient system of democratic, decentralized (where it makes sense), and AI-assisted economic planning. Without the capitalist US/CIA to interfere with socialist revolutions in Latin America, this wouldn't be that far-fetched.
Also, imagine a free high speed rail network that spans the entire hemisphere, including passport-free travel from one country to another.
This would own, but I worry about whether America is capable of being a good faith member of this kind of union. Something else I should have included - continued imperialism and no sign of overseas military bases shutting down. Maybe I'm being too pessimistic, though.
Its about resolving the contradictions within American society. This would mean things like givingg back a lot control of the land to the natives (keep your thoughts to yourself ), reparations for black people and native americans , taking care of the opiod crisis.
building a socialist base, which would include nationalizing Jeff bezos ballsack, and elon musks taint
edit- what i mean to say is socialist construction should start and be focused on the most impoverished areas, which tend to be redlined districts. I get what youre saying but its gotta start somewhere and black people should be at the helm of a lot.
“Oh so you just wanna give free money to blacks people huh? What about us who work?” Is a response I get to reparations.
Reparations only make sense in the context of capitalism. Using those same resources to achieve socialism has a better outcome for all
Uplifting communities that have been disadvantaged and oppressed across racial, economic, and political lines? That’s communism sweetie
what i mean to say is socialist construction should start and be focused on the most impoverished areas, which tend to be redlined districts. I get what youre saying but its gotta start somewhere and black people should be at the helm of a lot.
Oh yeah we agree on that. Even pure class reductionist would have to as they are our most impoverished communities along with indigenous folks
reparations are a bad idea imho, and so is giving land "back", all land belongs to all
I SAID ITS ABOUT RESOLVING CONTRADICTIONS. YOU ARE BEING A BAIZUO SHUT THE FUCK UP
I'm guessing it'd look something like this. The Constitution would remain in force, only with a whole bunch of new amendments.
Also we'd stand up for the American Red Army or heroes of Labour, as the Internationale plays, before Football Games.
Even after nationalizing the fast food chains, our large sodas are still 32 oz. and our burgers are still twice as big as any in other countries...even if they are made of fake meat.
Train stations have rest stops reminiscent of the truck stops/gas stations of antiquity where you can still get a fucking 60 oz soda. Trains have cupholders to accommodate.
Sort of related, it would be interesting to see a fast-food chain that operates as a sort of networked chain of cooperatives, where profits and decision making would be split between the individual franchises and the larger national chain. The national level fund could also provide start up costs for groups of workers who want to organize a new franchise, making it much easier for a group of workers to get started.
Been kinda using that idea to plant little seeds in some of my coworkers. We know better on a store level what needs done but our boss's boss's boss makes the decisions because they have a fancy title. They decided, for example, that we're getting rid of orange juice because it doesn't sell in most stores. But, when the customers at our store that buy it every day bitch, the top banana isn't gonna hear it and won't get in trouble for the bad survey. Small example, but the kids I work with are pretty well indoctrinated into capitalist hierarchy bullshit. Little things like that make them think.
We know better on a store level what needs done but our boss’s boss’s boss makes the decisions because they have a fancy title.
Yep. I see this at my work all the time as well. It's one of many reasons imo why a proper socialist system would be far more efficient than the current capitalist system. Cohesion is important, but autonomy for front line workers and their constant feedback to the larger organization would be pretty big step up from what currently exists in most large corporations. It's also probably part of the reason why worker cooperatives tend to be more productive than normal companies.
More state autonomy
Not sure how popular this would be, but I think municipalism makes more sense in this day and age than states, especially considering how states are currently set up in the US (mostly from the legacy of slavery). Planning at the community/town/city level just seems to make more sense to me as a coherent social/geographic basis for organization and planning. States, on the other hand, are all over the place. Texas is basically 5 very different states in one, as is California. Why do we have two Dakotas? Also, why does Wyoming even exist (no offense)?
Super down for a municipalist framework. Perhaps loosely-organized associations of nearby cities to replace states? No real legislative power, but sort of a diplomatic group where you can air grievances and forge agreements with other cities.
Hey some of the most direct political structure marx voiced support for were some form of federated communes.
Trust the plan.
Where there is a world, the united will be workers.
Nationalized social media influencers
Snapback hats as part of the Red Guard uniform
Funding unsuccessful invasions and proxy wars in all the countries we fucked over the first time around, but on the other side now
