and you can learn a lot from being a member of the global proletariat.
seriously, it's not that big of a deal. the people of Gaza are standing up cuz they have the shared experience of being oppressed by settler colonialism, those who benefit from colonization have zero incentive to oppose it.
America has a big lumpen population for a developed nation thanks to late capitalism yes.
It also has a massive PMC class that acts as a buffer to any radical activity. And even the actual workers still get a lot of nice treats to keep them pacified thanks to imperialism.
There is no such thing as "late capitalism." There is capitalism through various stages.
The way the economy has changed since the 1980s? Everyone is poor and lives in dirt.
"PMC"
Just say petit-bourgeous or whatever; getting stuff from the New Left movements is kinda useless and redundant.
" And even the actual workers still get a lot of nice treats to keep them pacified thanks to imperialism."
So do Indian workers compared to the ones in the countryside.
"Joe Biden isn't old, he's just human" good luck with that argument lol
Liz Warren voters have nice cars in the suburbs, but they don't really have any control over the means of production like a car dealership owner Trump voter
the imperial core/periphery exists both internationally and intranationally within a nation
I didn't say that it didn't.
Liz Warren voters are mostly BIPOC people, but why are we talking about the electorate? Trump voters are petit-bourgeous, for example.
Most Americans do not vote.
Not enough that a redistribution of wealth wouldn't benefit them, unlike US PMCs
Most wealth isn't redistributed among the poor, including the USA; most of USA is dirt-poor, especially if you go into rural countryside where the undocumented immigrants and field-hands are.
Don't be fooled by "pristine suburbs" either; they're filled with debt servants.
The dirt poor in the US still have access to far better infrastructure than the rest of the world, public schools, paved roads, clean running water. Some of its starting to crumble, some of it costs more than it should, but its there. It's nothing like living in a fucking favela. You may go into horrible debt going there but most Americans do have a hospital within driving distance. Austerity is happening but it could be far far worth and part of the reason it isn't is cuz the capitalists are making such fat stacks off neocolonialism they don't mind throwing a couple bones to the PMC spawns.
The average income in the US is about 57k, if all wealth in the world was divided equally everyone would make about 35-40k. So for many many Americans socialism would be a downgrade.
"but most Americans do have a hospital within driving distance"
They do not
average driving distance to a hospital is 10.5 for rural Americans, 5.6 in the suburbs and 4.4 for urban dwellers
"Pew Research Center"
I don't know about using them as a source considering how they do their studies.
Anyway, keep in mind that the hospitals in rural America are of poor quality and are virtually denied to many undocumented immigrant communities.
It looks like the methodology didn't ask respondents, "When you need to go to the emergency room at a hospital, where would you go?" and "How long would it take for you to drive there yourself?" The study took a respondent's address, the address of the closest hospital by straight line distance and then tried to figure out the drive time from there. Good thing insurance companies don't have "out of network" contingencies in their policies.
that average income figure is misleading. BLS is choosy about who does and doesn't count for the purposes of that, it doesn't include people who made $0, disabled people, kids, etc etc. But I'm assuming the 35-40k figure does include everyone
" Some of its starting to crumble"
Even in the suburbs, a lot of it is crumbling.
They do not; most don't have Internet access in the rural areas and especially if you're a prisoner.
And this is the Imperial core we're talking about; of course, it's going to be wealthier overall, but fact is, most wealth doesn't trickle down.
Trickle-down economics don't work.
92% of Americans have regular internet access
It's not trickle down economics, it's that the comprador bourgeois like having their backyards be somewhat stable and developed, which is good for the proles who happen to live there.
In the rural areas of Virginia, what counts as regular Internet access is different compared to suburbanites.
And to add insult to injury, there's still chunks of places in the USA where cell service doesn't reach.
Precisely.
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