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It's not incorrect that the residue of McCarthyism and American culture has put up an obstacle between the working class and socialism.
People aren't going to have their material conditions deteriorate to an arbitrary point then suddenly say "hm, yes, time for Communism" if they've been primed to hate anything to do with socialism since birth.
But that's not how shit works though. It's not an either or, people with a certain class position will never go left. Pepe that radicalize to the right tend to be people who had major privilege but lost it to the liberal world order. This is why militias are so big in the rust belt states.
I see what you mean. So people who never had said material status would then radicalize to the left--unless they had been consumed by Horatio Alger propaganda or other American exceptionalist thinking.
I suppose the question is not only how to support and militarize the working class where they are, but how to toss stones into the turbine of the rightward radicalization pipeline... if it can be done in the imperial core.
Maybe if we just change the ideas in everyone's heads the material reality will change :liberalism:
It's not incorrect that the residue of McCarthyism and American culture has put up an obstacle between the working class and socialism.
People aren't going to have their material conditions deteriorate to an arbitrary point then suddenly say "hm, yes, time for Communism" if they've been primed to hate anything to do with socialism since birth.
No, but when people's material reality conflicts with the prevailing narrative they question it.
Right... but leftward, or rightward?
One has the path of the least resistance.
But that's not how shit works though. It's not an either or, people with a certain class position will never go left. Pepe that radicalize to the right tend to be people who had major privilege but lost it to the liberal world order. This is why militias are so big in the rust belt states.
I see what you mean. So people who never had said material status would then radicalize to the left--unless they had been consumed by Horatio Alger propaganda or other American exceptionalist thinking.
I suppose the question is not only how to support and militarize the working class where they are, but how to toss stones into the turbine of the rightward radicalization pipeline... if it can be done in the imperial core.