Most working people I know don’t consider themselves communist. In fact, most probably consider themselves anyi-communist. Why do you think communism’s message doesn’t resonate with working people?
Several reasons. The US State Department has spent a century strategically dismantling attempts at building Socialism and propagandizing against it. This intentional dismantling of Socialist experiments allows the State to pretend “Socialism did that” even if these countries were bombed into oblivion, sanctioned, couped, and so forth.
Additionally, the American Proletariat is almost feudalistic. High quality of life is bought on the backs of debt slavery and super-exploitation of immigrants and the global south. There is a second, underclass of proletarians threatened with deportation that have even lower salaries. This debt entrapment combined with high cost of living and quality of life depresses revolutionary potential.
In my mind it could be a mixture of propaganda and that we don’t emphasize critical thinking in schools.
People would not be radicalized simply if they were better at critical thinking. The thoughts and ideas of society largely arise from their Material Conditions, not from education and individuals thinking about their conditions. The entirety of culture is shaped around liberalism and liberal ideas.
Imperialism is the driving contradiction of today. Finance Capital dominantes the global south and commodities are produced cheaply as compradors slice up and sell their fellow countrymen to rich Capitalists in the Global North. Fighting this will push the American Proletariat to more revolutionary potential, and allows Socialist projects to prop up without US interference.
What remains to be done for any good Communist is organizing. Building up parallel structures and a revolutionary group along democratic lines, fostering good relationships and encouraging Marxist education.
Take a note from the Black Panthers, Fred Hampton was murdered because the Black Panther Party was a threat to the State.
Several reasons. The US State Department has spent a century strategically dismantling attempts at building Socialism and propagandizing against it. This intentional dismantling of Socialist experiments allows the State to pretend “Socialism did that” even if these countries were bombed into oblivion, sanctioned, couped, and so forth.
Additionally, the American Proletariat is almost feudalistic. High quality of life is bought on the backs of debt slavery and super-exploitation of immigrants and the global south. There is a second, underclass of proletarians threatened with deportation that have even lower salaries. This debt entrapment combined with high cost of living and quality of life depresses revolutionary potential.
People would not be radicalized simply if they were better at critical thinking. The thoughts and ideas of society largely arise from their Material Conditions, not from education and individuals thinking about their conditions. The entirety of culture is shaped around liberalism and liberal ideas.
Imperialism is the driving contradiction of today. Finance Capital dominantes the global south and commodities are produced cheaply as compradors slice up and sell their fellow countrymen to rich Capitalists in the Global North. Fighting this will push the American Proletariat to more revolutionary potential, and allows Socialist projects to prop up without US interference.
What remains to be done for any good Communist is organizing. Building up parallel structures and a revolutionary group along democratic lines, fostering good relationships and encouraging Marxist education.
Take a note from the Black Panthers, Fred Hampton was murdered because the Black Panther Party was a threat to the State.