MZT says that first we must analyze the primary contradiction in a society, from which all other contradictions build from.
My thought is that American working class do not revolt because our lifestyle is subsidized by the global poor. Of course there are impoverished workers (and lumpen) within America, but they are dissuaded by revolutionary organization because of this neocolonial dependence.
And I don't just mean "treats" although that's a big part of it. Many basic essentials are produced through the global supply chain and most people rely on income from companies who plunder the global south.
The financialization and deindustrialization of the American economy from neoliberal politics is the culmination of this. Why when workers made gains against industrial capitalists, production was moved to the global south.
I'm sure this has been discussed before by proper scholars, but I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm just reading through On Contradiction now.
When the global south unifies against the imperial core, shit’s gonna get lit af. I think this is the best prospect for the destruction of capitalism within our lifetimes. The world beyond the imperial core seems vibrant and rapidly progressing while the imperial core itself stagnates and collapses.
Brazil, Venezuela, and Argentina are in preliminary talks for a Latin American and Caribbean currency. Lula has been vocal about ending the Cuban embargo, the cruelty of it. Hard to be a :bloomer: but Latin America seems to be on the coolest track.
I imagine a world where Cuba was allowed to flourish without an embargo and become so sad. :sadness-abysmal:
I here would like to point out how well Cuba has done with a cruel and crushing embargo.
That is the :bloomer: vibe. Thanks for helping me remember the good
Consider that Cuba has, with a cruel embargo, kept its passenger rail network alive, unlike Mexico, which privatized and abandoned the entire thing in the 90s. Cuba has also led the world in medical research.
I think the nature of the struggle will mostly just change although the conditions will be objectively more hopeful. Capitalism always adapts and moves to where it will be most successful and there have always been dusks whether its Britain or Japan and Germany or the United States. It's good to feel hopeful about it but I think it is also important to keep in mind the objective conditions that capitalism moving into the third world is not in and of itself and indication that communism is coming.