I’ve been having some rather awkward feelings about the Lemmygrad community and have lurked for a while but I have decided to do something interesting for now. What if the United States had finally undergone a successful socialist revolution through general revolution and civil war for socialist cause. What would it look like? A federal republic or something different?

  • Average PFLP Enjoyer@lemmygrad.ml
    261·
    2 years ago

    America cannot exist as a Socialist country, it must be balkanised and rebuilt from the ground up - it’s institutions and it’s culture are too inherently evil to leave any remnants of the previous nation

    • relay@lemmygrad.ml
      15·
      2 years ago

      I disagree with calling everything about America evil. What allows the empire to get away with the crimes it does will not last. While the masses are brainwashed, and institutions are corrupt, that does not mean that new institutions can’t be built. While America is terrible in many ways, there are progressive elements that have existed but were not taught about in schooling. Those progressive elements often lost, but the conditions that insured the empire’s victories are crumbling. I pray that the CPC stays it’s socialist vision and destroys the empire’s trade advantages with the belt and road initiative. The American bourgeois will arrogantly make decisions to run the empire into the ground because they won’t acknowledge that they are the problem. The power of the empire shall wane and will lash out in agony. We must prevent that from being a nuclear apocalypse. We must make America fall but in a way that just gives up then starts rotting to a third world nation. That rotting corpse is the food for socialist institutions to thrive and prosper.

      • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
        10·
        2 years ago

        Well, no one is suggesting the US be glassed in the presence of other options, but I’ll remind you that although German Democratic Republic managed to create one of the most progressive societies at its time in a generation, this didn’t happen with access to the military might or industrial base of 1939 Germany. It was ravaged by war and nazism, nearly every last trace of nazism was eradicated and that was enough only because in the previous decade nazism had destroyed or absorbed every institution or movement in the country.

        I’m obviously not saying war and devastation are good, this is merely an observation. Capitalism had taken root deep into society in early 20th c. and even deeper now in the west. These roots might not wither while the ground feeding them is undisturbed.