I recently saw the PSL promoting this book, it’s about how a socialist USA could look like and as mentioned in the title, is it worth it? If not, are the any different good books regarding this topic?

    • Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      The colonial contradictions have to go, and that’s not going to leave a unified political entity recognizable as the former U$.

      I’m a candidate in the PSL, and I have to say this is not something lost on the party:

      “The socialist government will recognize the inviolable right of all oppressed nations to self-determination with regard to their means of gaining and maintaining their liberation. In the United States, this includes the right of self-determination for African American, Native, Puerto Rican and other Latino national minorities, the Hawai’ian nation, Asian, Pacific Islander, Arab and other oppressed peoples that have experienced oppression as a whole people under capitalism.” (section from their party program)

      I haven’t read the book yet, but I plan on it once i get my hands on it :). Worst case scenario, you don’t like it. Best case scenario, you do.

    • Seanchaí (she/her)@lemmygrad.ml
      192·
      2 years ago

      People on here will call for the balkanization of the US every day but then you’ll get downvoted for saying that there is no socialist future for the US. Wild.

      The US is a capitalist, colonial project that exists solely to prop up the wealth accumulation of the bourgeoisie. Of course it needs to be dismantled. Landback is an essential part of a socialist project on Turtle Island, otherwise all you’ll end up with is settler socialism. That is to say, the same colonial hierarchies, but with (white) workers in charge.

      • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
        15·
        2 years ago

        You’re obviously correct, just adding that this isn’t something lost on PSL. There are discussions about landback, plurinationalism, and the official line is sovereignty up to and including the right to complete secession for indigenous nations and any black congress that forms. Just adding.