It seems like this is a very important conversation for Western socialists but I really don't see much discussion regarding this. What seems intuitive to me is that the answer is probably not many, but maybe that's just owe to the crumbs we have living in the imperial core.
Thoughts?
My question is, how would one go about measuring that? Counting membership in revolutionary organizations / militant labor? Polling the population? Taking some action and seeing how many people support it? I'm just not sure the best way of measuring something like that
This is also a good question - working class organizations form the basis for a lot of revolutionary movements. But the people in them need to be revolutionary, too. Are the workers in the U.S. hampered in their efforts to form these organizations, moreso than perhaps the industrial proletariat of pre revolutionary Russia?