A Super Shallow Discussion on Cultural Revolution of the USA

[Lance_Castro]

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[Politruk]

USSR, China, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, Laos, were or are the few Communist countries in the world and while they are thought to be in better relationship with each other than with other countries outside their circle, it turned out that they are more hostile to each other. Refer to the hot wars between USSR and China, between China and Vietnam.

Does an international Communist movement even exist any more?

 

[rgraham666]

People staying outside of China can freely check online what the Cultural Revolution that took place during 1966-1976 is.

People living inside can tell you what it looked like in reality. After making comparisons, they can tell you that the current USA is going through such a revolution period.

In China's version, the top leader, President of the country Mr. Liu Shaoqi, was put under house arrest first and to prison then and to death eventually. The Red Guards, most of them the high school students, disrupted the normal classes and made teachers their target of revolution by having them tied with back bent up to 90 degrees and beating them with belts, sticks, chairs, or anything at hand after giving them an insulting judgment in the public. Local people, trying to defend the dear great leader Chairman Mao from the reactionary forces inside the Party, armed themselves first with primitive weapons like kitchen knives, bricks, bottles, iron bars, then with self-made guns, later with authentic firearms stolen from the army. They began their armed struggle with each other in the streets, in the countryside, in any place where there were people whom they believe were their arch enemy.

In USA's version, the chief executive officer, people-elected President Trump has been blocked in carrying out his agenda by the opposition party and the high court time and time again, the latest is that a local judge also joined the horseplay, issuing an injunction that will have consequence as he claimed to the federal big boss. After MAGA supporters stormed the Capitol Hill a while back, the Dem followers did not take their fate lying down by attacking Tesla as an appetite. Even during the election campaign, assasin was assigned to kill the hopeful.

I've regarded the area of the political spectrum known as the Right as revolutionaries for decades now.

Revolutionary meaning they intend to rip up the entire system from the roots, destroy anything and anyone they regard as dissenting from their views, and rewriting the past to show their actions as both inevitable and ethical.

 

[Politruk]

I've regarded the area of the political spectrum known as the Right as revolutionaries for decades now.

Revolutionary meaning they intend to rip up the entire system from the roots, destroy anything and anyone they regard as dissenting from their views, and rewriting the past to show their actions as both inevitable and ethical.

There are no American conservatives any more, only reactionaries. Conservatives are cautious -- that is the only characteristic of conservatism that has any value at all. Conservatives are averse to radical experiments that might have unintended consequences. No conservative would ever shout "Lock her up!" or "End the Fed!" or "Molon labe!" A conservative might think the government spends too much money, employs too many people, tries to do too many things -- but would never think of approaching the problem with a randomly applied chainsaw, like DOGE does.

 

[Lance_Castro]

The 60s, 70s were a lot more fucking fun than now. The music was definitely better.

Mao knew how to wear red.

And Who DIDNT have a copy of his Little Red Book?

 

[Saint_Ann]

Mao knew how to wear red.

And Who DIDNT have a copy of his Little Red Book?

You're like the Queen of Esoteria.

 

[gxnn]

Will the US end up like the Soviet Union? No. The Soviet Union only disintegrated, but the US will likely fare much worse than the Soviet Union. Even at its lowest point, the Soviet Union still had a centuries-old ethnic majority to rely on. What common cultural core do Americans share? In essence, they are just a ragtag group of people who have come together through plunder and violence.

Let's not talk about those lofty national strategies; let's look at the ordinary people in the streets and alleys of the United States.

In Manhattan subway stations, the smell of marijuana lingers, as suited white-collar workers and homeless people wrapped in sleeping bags squeeze into the same carriage. In San Francisco's church district, a tent city stretches over 300 meters along the curb, while Silicon Valley programmers are typing code five kilometers away in tech parks to earn a $300,000 annual salary. This kind of tearing apart is even more shocking than the late stages of the Soviet Union—at least Moscow residents could still queue up for bread, while the bottom layer of American society has been deprived of even the right to queue up.

In public hospital emergency rooms lie black teenagers shot by guns, with medical bills showing $4.8 million in rescue fees. His mother works as a Walmart stocker, and it would take her 21 years without eating or drinking to pay off the debt, according to her hourly wage of $15. The white old man in the next bed curses the rising cost of health insurance as he lies hooked up to a ventilator; his veterans' benefits have just been cut by one-third. This kind of medical terrorism has never been seen even in Brezhnev's era of the Soviet Union, when at least everyone enjoyed free medical care.

Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles's eastern suburbs squat at Home Depot doors waiting for odd jobs at four o'clock in the morning, with their hourly wages pushed down to $8 and having to compete with robots for work. In Amazon warehouses, it's 35 degrees Celsius, and urine bags hang on the shelves to save time going to the toilet. If these scenes were placed in Stalin's tractor factory, even the strictest foreman would blush—at least Soviet workers had lifetime positions and free sanatoriums.

What's truly fatal is the cultural gap. Black gang youths in Chicago's South Side learn how to shoot playing Grand Theft Auto, rednecks in Texas hold the Bible against vaccines, and New York elites teach people how to evade taxes on TikTok. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, 82% of people still believed in communism; now, even the fig leaf of freedom and democracy has been burned to ashes by the Capitol Hill riots.

The US won't collapse like the Soviet Union did, but it will be like a sugar cube soaked in coke, seemingly intact but already riddled with holes inside. When Wall Street's capital games can buy up the entire Eastern European industrial system but can't fix the rust belt factories in Ohio; when Pentagon missiles can strike targets accurately in the Middle East but can't stop fentanyl from flooding their own communities—this kind of tearing apart is more fatal than an ideological collapse. The Soviet Union lost to bread and butter, while the US is being choked to death by the entertainment it invented itself.

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[Wat_Tyler]

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[Chernosoth]

The biggest bump in the road is the transition from megafarms with tractors and imported chemical fertilizers to small organic farms with all human and animal labor. If we can't make that transition, then nothing else matters as we run out of food. Small remote depopulated towns repopulate as people move closer to the food and make products for farmers. The metropolises are the next biggest bump, the suburban sprawl of of former farmland paved over to build tract houses, McMansions, and condos that will be abandoned. Suburbanites have a very bumpy road ahead as "green energy" becomes "no energy." The decades we could have spent testing alternative energy options and building what works, not subsidy dumpsters, and adapting to life with less energy, less stuff, and less stimulation, were spent instead on more reckless sprawl and waste. Nuclear energy won't fill the gap, but the desperation to make it work will probably lead to nuclear accidents and uninhabitable areas.

 

[Politruk]

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, 82% of people still believed in communism

Then why don't they vote Communist now? The party still exists.

 

[Politruk]

The biggest bump in the road is the transition from megafarms with tractors and imported chemical fertilizers to small organic farms with all human and animal labor. If we can't make that transition, then nothing else matters as we run out of food.

Why should we make that transition? We're not about to run out of petroleum, or anything else the industrial economy depends on.

 

[Politruk]

What common cultural core do Americans share?

An Anglo-Saxon culture, to which all others have assimilated to varying degrees.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

An Anglo-Saxon culture, to which all others have assimilated to varying degrees.

Most of American culture is African: Jazz, the Blues, Soul, Rock-n-Rock, Rap & Hip Hop. America's myths about itself are the work of Hollywood Jews, but the soundtrack of America is African. Why do you think white America feels so alienated? They don't have anything to say that the rest of us want to hear.

 

[Politruk]

Most of American culture is African: Jazz, the Blues, Soul, Rock-n-Rock, Rap & Hip Hop. America's myths about itself are the work of Hollywood Jews, but the soundtrack of America is African. Why do you think white America feels so alienated? They don't have anything to say that the rest of us want to hear.

African-American culture is Anglo-Saxon. It is a uniquely American ethnic subculture that has very little in common with anything to be found in Africa, the Caribbean or Latin America. Their music, like their speech, owes more to that of the white South than to anything African.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

African-American culture is Anglo-Saxon. It is a uniquely American ethnic subculture that has very little in common with anything to be found in Africa, the Caribbean or Latin America. Their music, like their speech, owes more to that of the white South than to anything African.

I will add that American political culture is a fusion of European Enlightenment ideas about society with Native American ideas about freedom. That's why fascism took root in the 1930's more easily in Europe than in the United States, and why Trump is struggling now.

 

[Politruk]

I will add that American political culture is a fusion of European Enlightenment ideas about society with Native American ideas about freedom. That's why fascism took root in the 1930's more easily in Europe than in the United States, and why Trump is struggling now.

Also, perhaps, why Communism never got much traction here.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

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Don't soil Canadian art with your fucking american blasphemy....

 

[Chernosoth]

Many Muslim women in the US are afraid to wear the hijab.
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[Politruk]

Many Muslim women in the US are afraid to wear the hijab.
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Your point being?