Steps up onto soapbox
According to Zak Cope in Divided World Divided Class, if the global economy was rearanged equitably income in the global north would drop by an average of 240%. This is a massive barrier to building socialism. Mitigating this problem should be a top priority for communists. If we ignore this we risk failing to build socialism, failing to show international solidarity, and we risk obstructing socialism’s construction around the world.
As unions and labor organizations become more necessary to maintain quality of life in the core, it is of paramount importance that these unions are plugged in to a greater political movement that is based on international solidarity. If all we can achieve is labor organizing that fights for marginal gains for workers in the core, then we fight for maintaining imperialism.
We must find a way to proliferate international proletarian politics into unions and organizations. If we cannot then inevitably we subject ourselves to the revolutionary violence of the proletariat. In Sri Lanka people have taken over and destroyed the Prime Ministers residence while he flees. This is the future of the global north if the course of history continues and if we continue to fool ourselves into thinking we can win the class war by focusing solely on the immediate concerns of workers in the core, and without solidarity with and strict guidance from the global proletariat.
Socialism is often branded as Utopian. As a sort of paradise of justice and equality. As marxists we must destroy this narrative. Socialist revolution will not bring prosperity to Amerika it will bring a death blow and this is the point. Workers in the core that ally themselves with the global proletariat must prepare for survival in a world without imperial and colonial spoils. We must prepare our neighbors and our families. We must not tell people the lies of Utopian socialism or allow the working class to be whitewashed into a class that lives off of the stolen wealth of nations.
Isn’t most americans quality of life already shit? Like,for capitalists and the middle class it will probably decrease, but for the rest of the workers it may increase no?
They would have free healthcare, decent public education, public transport, free housing etc.
Just these should improve most of theirs life right?
Well I guess it’d depend on how much you value luxury goods and services vs essential needs in quality of life
Huge majority of Americans have housing and have a car or shitty public transportation already. Most Americans don’t need healthcare or are covered by their employer (but poorly)
Socialism at first would provide slight improvements but most importantly “free” permanent stability in all of these which are definitely amazing
But they’d probably lose out on their heavy meat diet, lose out on cheap fruits, so they’d have to have a very basic diet. They’d lose out on their ability to easily buy nice smartphones, clothes, shoes, electronics, basically anything because of their strong currency + cheap labor and raw materials from global south
The sort of housing in America is extremely restrictive and exploitative. Rent wouldn’t exist in a socialist economy.
Capitalist healthcare is inherently exploitative. Wide scale car usage is not conducive to a good relationship with nature and shitty public transportation is just that, shitty.
I feel like this is a bit unimaginative.
Edit: okay, I took back the downvote because you did explain that you agreed with the stance that more socialist reimagining was needed.
True, this will also going to happen the second US loses their hegemony