Like, if tomorrow there was magically communism in all fucking USA+Europe+Australia, how would they de-imperialize their economies?

More importantly, would they? Is the desire for treats and living off other countries stronger than socialism?

Is Europe at least self-food-sufficient?

  • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Unless a revolutionary organization suddenly starts gaining support and recognition soon, I think we're narrowing in on a slow collapse and ironic isolation of the US economy, likely degrading into balkanization and just general small scale chaos - a slow motion train wreck.

    Of course, this was always potentially in the cards, marxists have long wondered how bad things would need to get in the US for its populace to awaken from its ignorance of history and reality. That "bad" may very well be supply chain collapse timed perfectly with climate change turning the difficulty up 10 fold on maintaining a stable food supply and the myriad of other worsening needed-for-life resources and services.

    Not to be a doomer, but I think we(speaking for myself as a white westerner) have long been coddled with the end of history and suffering. And so it is impossible to imagine that things will get painful here before it can get better. People are waking up, because people are feeling this time period more and more. That's good, but it's just getting started.

    There is no more guessing, no more "will the next generation of leftists finally do it?", we are out of time, and the extinction crisis is coming within the next two decades. China, IMO, is probably the one shining hope out of all of this, and perhaps the US populace can be in a decade or two, but we will see.