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.
Not permanently. But initially it certainly would. Even Lenin admitted this is how it happened with the USSR. This effect will be much more intense in the wealthy nations, especially without preperation and solidarity.
This is true but there is a lot of problems with the way we grow food that wont be solved overnight and wont be as simple as redistribution. Production has to change as well.
Thank you for the recommendation. Im thinking this is exactly what I mean. It will take a restructuring of society to bring back a decent or moderately prosperous quality of life. Addressing these inefficiencies will probably help soften then intial blow and help build towards a rebuilding of the global economy, starting with local economies.
Left alone, then yes, America would turn into mad max land. That being said, I think there are plenty of orgs that are reimagining how society would be structured.
Are things where they need to be, nah, but a day at a time.
Im here for this kind of energy. My intention is not to be discouraging.