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?
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.