Am I one of the few people here who still thinks US workers might still be mostly salvageable if we could just get a socialist movement or even a workers' party off the ground? I get the desire to see the US empire collapse - removing the biggest boot off the necks of global south workers is a net positive for global socialism - but we're also seeing an acceleration of the post-2008 trend towards increasing proletarianization of at least some of the temporarily-embarrassed and highly-educated professionals, increasing income inequality, older workers getting their pensions decimated after every crash, etc.
Objective conditions continue to be beyond rotten-ripe, and increasing shares of working-class US-Americans are interested in some form of socialism (or social democracy, which some might think is socialism because the GOP has called everything to the left of the Clinton administration socialist for the past 30 years), critical of or opposed to unregulated capitalism, and correctly believe both the Democrats and Republicans suck and don't represent their interests.
The covid crisis also forced the ruling class to reveal to essential workers that their labor is essential to keeping the economy running and the most proletarian US workers are increasingly aware of their leverage. We're still far behind where we should be w.r.t. the subjective factor - we still don't even have a social democratic workers' party yet! - but general class consciousness is much better than it's been since before the Cold War ended, and there's no reason to believe US workers are checking out and going to brunch like their privileged PMC counterparts. We had people out on the streets calling for defunding or abolition of police this year, which would've been unheard of even a year ago! I see no reason to be completely blackpilled yet. The Dems will try to contain the current incarnation of the workers' movement like they always do but they can't possibly completely contain it anymore, not after they went mask-off this year and stopped just short of endorsing the covid death cult.
Am I one of the few people here who still thinks US workers might still be mostly salvageable if we could just get a socialist movement or even a workers' party off the ground? I get the desire to see the US empire collapse - removing the biggest boot off the necks of global south workers is a net positive for global socialism - but we're also seeing an acceleration of the post-2008 trend towards increasing proletarianization of at least some of the temporarily-embarrassed and highly-educated professionals, increasing income inequality, older workers getting their pensions decimated after every crash, etc.
Objective conditions continue to be beyond rotten-ripe, and increasing shares of working-class US-Americans are interested in some form of socialism (or social democracy, which some might think is socialism because the GOP has called everything to the left of the Clinton administration socialist for the past 30 years), critical of or opposed to unregulated capitalism, and correctly believe both the Democrats and Republicans suck and don't represent their interests.
The covid crisis also forced the ruling class to reveal to essential workers that their labor is essential to keeping the economy running and the most proletarian US workers are increasingly aware of their leverage. We're still far behind where we should be w.r.t. the subjective factor - we still don't even have a social democratic workers' party yet! - but general class consciousness is much better than it's been since before the Cold War ended, and there's no reason to believe US workers are checking out and going to brunch like their privileged PMC counterparts. We had people out on the streets calling for defunding or abolition of police this year, which would've been unheard of even a year ago! I see no reason to be completely blackpilled yet. The Dems will try to contain the current incarnation of the workers' movement like they always do but they can't possibly completely contain it anymore, not after they went mask-off this year and stopped just short of endorsing the covid death cult.