I will be frank my understanding of theory is not great as I am still less than a year into learning marxism-leninism. Regardless, I see a lot of discontent among liberals which has unfortunately been managed very well by Biden stepping down and Harris now being on the table. However, seeing as nothing will fundamentally change and the source of their discontent will still affect them, eventually they will want superficial change again. Perhaps next time on a larger scale? Could there be a few real changes of the guard in our future or has the state apparatus been so perfected that this is no longer an option? Is fascism really the only way for the USian dominos to fall?

If so can someone explain why to me? I am currently reading state & revolution so I feel like I should know this and it is possible I answered myself but I dont have people to talk to about this irl so I am looking for people to bounce my thoughts on.

    • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 months ago

      the US is particularly calcified and host to one of the oldest bourgeois governments in the world, the initial revolution was not the prototypical type from europe, it was more defined by its status as a settler colony (to a semi-feudal nation) than a society that had a nobility to be usurped. pretty easy to get the notion that the US still ‘needs’ to go through the liberal stage properly. read “Uncommon Dominion” by Sally Mckee to receive a more complete definition and distinction of settler independence revolts from classic revolution, i also hear “The Counterrevolution of 1776” by Gerald Horne dwells on these questions particularly to the US but i’ve not read it