Non-Yank with a question for Yankie comrades.
I've recently been going back over Lenin's writings, in particular What is to Be Done?:
We have said that there could not have been Social Democratic consciousness among the workers. It would have to be brought to them from without. The history of all countries shows that the working class, exclusively by its own efforts, is able to develop only trade union consciousness, i.e. the conviction that it is necessary to combine in unions, fight the employers, and strive to compel the government to pass necessary labour legislation etc
What do USAmerican Marxists think the current correct organisational strategies are, given the particular conditions of the US? What are the limits of activity within trade-unions, compared to other countries?
The situation is bad but the moment someone tells me what to do, I’ll do it. I live in the very rural US, I’ve nonetheless tried electoralism multiple times, I’ve tried building an org (it went nowhere fast, and there are no other orgs here), I’ve done things I can’t discuss, I’ve done performative marches, I’ve tried radicalizing people endlessly in many different ways, and just gotten nowhere. I’m on my own out here: anything beyond Bernie is considered insane. Does that make the situation hopeless? Absolutely not. The bourgeoisie are nervous and for good reason. I think the revolution in the USA will start in the cities and probably in the midwestern ones like in 2020. When it begins I’ll be there to help however I can. In the mean time, I’m doing what I can to help anyone out there (inside or outside the USA) who sticks out their necks to take this motherfucker down.