Yeah, this seems like he's instead dunking on how antidemocratic and shitty the US is. Full speech here
EDIT: it really is very carefully worded. It could be read either be a plea for a socdem US, or (my interpretation) pointing out how badly the US falls short while pointing out how good the VC are, while lamenting, sarcastically, the communists seem so cool, aha, how bad is that?
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch antirevolutionaries. This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has a revolutionary spirit. Therefore, communism is a judgment against our failure to make democracy real and follow through on the revolutions that we initiated. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
Yeah, this seems like he's instead dunking on how antidemocratic and shitty the US is. Full speech here
EDIT: it really is very carefully worded. It could be read either be a plea for a socdem US, or (my interpretation) pointing out how badly the US falls short while pointing out how good the VC are, while lamenting, sarcastically, the communists seem so cool, aha, how bad is that?