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?
What's that one quote about society being 9 meals away from collapse at any moment? I think I liked it but it also could have meant something reactionary.
In any case, when certain moments arise I believe we all might be very surprised by who ends up on one side or another. A revolutionary socialist movement isn't born out of some kind of reasoned attitude or books certain people have read, that's part of it, but a movement like that comes when people have nothing else and need support themselves. So a better question might be "how many workers in the US would be supported by and also thus support a revolutionary socialist movement in a revolutionary moment?"
Answer is probably a lot although with our particular brand of American brainworms I would be 100% unsurprised if our version of socialism ended up being called I don't know, patriotism or community-ism or something that completely avoids the s and c words. I'd certainly hope at some point they adopt Marxist theory or that leadership would be aware of theory, but I don't really care about what the aesthetics end up being