I feel like i've been seeing a torrent of photos depicting signs announcing a stores entire staff quitting in protest of their shitty working conditions. Nobody seems to be talking about it but are Americans starting to experience class consciousness?
Your edit is the most correct and best post I’ve seen on this site in some time.
IF YOU ARE ON THIS SITE READING THIS AND TRULY BELIEVE IN SOCIALISM YOU NEED TO BE OUT THERE RAISING THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WORKERS. Whether you’re in Amerikkka or anywhere else in the world, it’s the most important thing to be doing right now. Laws of historical development are a thing, but that doesn’t mean you just sit around and wait for a revolution.
Lenin wrote that for a revolutionary situation to develop and succeed you need not just objective conditions to be manifest (weak capitalist power structure, extremely heightened contradictions, etc.) but also the subjective conditions, i.e. a working class that is class conscious, that has become “a class not just in itself but for itself” to quote the manifesto. Potentially revolutionary moments are wasted when the working class is not ready to act, and the first step on that road is actually creating a working class, versus a bunch of disparate workers.
Join your local party, if you don’t have one or it sucks start a party, if nobody else around you is a socialist try to activate your friends and co-workers, put up propaganda posters at night, hand out pamphlets or stick them in random books at the library or leave them in public places/public transport. Anything you can do to advance the goal of socialism. A person might tell you to fuck off in person, but in a weeks time they might get shat on by their boss, or get some bullshit bill they can’t afford, or get harassed by a cop, or have a family member die because of fucked up medical bills, and somewhere in their brain is the pamphlet you handed to them saying “CAPITALISM IS THE REASON YOUR LIFE SUCKS”, and maybe for 1 in 100, 200, 1000 people that light switch flicks on and they think “fuck it maybe I should watch that YouTube video, maybe I should read that article”, and you have a potential new comrade. This isn’t glamorous work but in a lot of places around the world it’s the work that needs to be done right now.