Regarding point B, this is not static. Socialists have been steadily working to improve the level of class consciousness in the US Empire, and this is having slow and steady results. It’s why there is a dialectical reaction to these new developments.

In this context, what is the clearest example of a dialectical reaction? I assume that the targeting and absorption of BLM and heightened class-based economic warfare are examples..?

Thank you for your study and writing!

Thank you for being grounded yet optimistic, I appreciate your analysis o7

I admire the revolutionary optimism but I stay very hesitant to rely on it in the imperial core. BTW I in no way intended to call you a liberal, just those who read my message that apply.

Black Lives Matter is a good example but it was also decentralized and while semi effective, the bourgeois dems sent in the military and all that work was more or less undone. What did we get out of that, one single conviction?

Most Americans wouldn’t even begin to know how to start a union, or a rent strike. We are simply not ready for the large scale unease that a civil war would cause. We have the numbers but not the discipline that those numbers need to succeed. Otherwise you’re just sending disenfranchised Americans into its own meat grinder.

I do believe we would see mass conversion over to leftist politics but at this point it’s all conjecture and I would only hope that would come swiftly and with principle, because like the Minneapolis BLM protests and Capital Hill Autonomous Zone and pro Palestinian Student encampments, these mass movements are too decentralized to function as a safe vanguard for the working class.

Idk if you’re from my neck of the woods but I live in Minnesota, I go to the Cities about once a month when it’s nice out (not as much lately but my point is I love Minneapolis/St. Paul) and I saw first hand how much of our population is real and who was hiding scared during those protests. The general sentiment around Minneapolis citizens taking a modicum of power back, was not positive on even the average person in Minnesota. Even tho it was completely justified.

I know most of what I’m saying is anecdotal, and I sure as fuck hope I’m wrong. But the way I see it (Like it or not) is that we need a principled party and legal vanguard that are vetted, trusted and held accountable for any wrongdoing and that’s just for starters.