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how do you think this can be solved from a socialist/communist perspective? oh and what do you mean by "something worse"?
Elections will never fix this mess. New political parties cannot install reform.
Later, when local politics do become possible, in my hypothetical above, socialists must come out on top. If not, things will never change.
Communism in the USA is the only thing that can prevent a lot of suffering lasting decades or more.
As for something worse: there is a lot bad going on, families going hungry, people dying of preventable disease. The list of that continues for several pages.
This country, as it is, cannot help them, their communities cannot make things better for most. That is scary.
Most of the crimes Trump is doing is backed and empowered by other crimes and injustices, In the grand scheme of things, who is in power there is not so important as the system itself. Trump is like a bruise showing up on the skin resulting from cancer. The bruise is unsightly but ultimately insignificant.
do you think revolution is the best option we have, and what can we do to unite both progressives AND conservatives in the cause of socialism?
No. We need a vanguard party first. And there is a lot of work to do before that. I have to learn more but I know mutual aid, unions and hopefully finding a group is in order before we can begin to build a vanguard party.
what communist party in the us should be the vanguard party? can all socialist/communist parties be merged into a new party?
i'm talking about a big tent populist vanguard party. seriously!
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Vanguard_party
do you think i should study socialist/communist theory a bit harder?
🙂
I think if communism prevails one need only look to other large regions of the world to see how difficult that was to do it there
what do you mean by that?
are you talking about a one-party country (where only the communist party is the sole legal party), or a multi-tendency country (the communist party is the sole legal party, but multiple factions of the party appear as if they're different parties; the communist party work with like-minded socialist parties in a 'vanguard coalition'; or multiple like-minded socialist/communist parties compete the way other countries do)?
I think there are many ways to mess up a communist movement after winning and I hope some pitfalls are avoided
can you explain?
I’m still learning 😊