Socialism in a Post America. Why socialism for America? Why is it…
By: Wade The Molotov
Tags: America, Marxism, Socialism, Communism

THE ACQUISITION OF POLITICAL POWER

“By the term ‘abolition’ of capitalism we mean its overthrow in open struggle by the toiling masses, led by the proletariat. Although the world capitalist system constantly plunges deeper into crisis we cannot therefore conclude that it will collapse of its own weight. On the contrary, as Lenin has stated, no matter how difficult the capitalist crisis becomes, `there is no complete absence of a way out’ for the bourgeoise until it faces the revolutionary proletariat in arms.” -William Z. Foster (Toward Soviet America)

When the people of a Post-America finally free themselves from capitalist rule there must, of course, be suppression of the tyrants who once ruled us & their imprisonment based on the crimes each may have committed that are deemed abhorrent. In order to ensure proletarian democracy, it is essential to disenfranchise the capitalist & other methods to eliminate their sway over political decisions. Another method will be the elimination of privately funded campaigns. It will be commanded by the Worker’s State through open struggle in cultural media & laws passed or in threats of violence when necessary. A strong workers state must be swift to respond to the anti-working class elements of our new nation.

Class struggle in the nation will breed a crucial result of a socialist upbringing, that is when those who occupy the property are represented rather than those who own it. Landlords, CEOs, & many others will be disenfranchised & destroyed while a socialist system is built upon their tyrannical heap of rubble that once was supreme. The properties in which used to be landlord-owned will be owned collectively by those who occupy them if not state-provided. Communal apartments will assist struggling apartment owners by providing a home for them to live in so long as they are of use to society & that they have a job to pay for the bills during the transitional period of capitalism to socialism. Their rent should only make a small portion of their bill similar to that of the Soviet model. Teachers, due to their significance & ability to teach class struggle, will be recognized as a high position of intellectual society. The teacher paves the path for the youth as do parents & culture. Schools therefore will be represented by the teachers & the community which it teaches. Through the democratic process will decisions be made. What about the small business down the street? Under socialism, in the small business owner's shop, the owner will not be kicked out because they are insignificant in influence compared to huge exploitative businesses & rather have a friendly relation with the state but the state will ultimately have an alliance with the workers & poor.

The workers in those shops will be seen as of higher importance because of this alliance & a cooperative should be very much pushed for. The American socialist state will not take away their land so long as they treat the workers respectfully & socialist state laws will be upheld to mandate the conditions of such. Small mom & pop shops, however, will be promoted to boost local economies, especially struggling ones. Big retailer shops will no longer crush small businesses in communities & gradually they will be only reserved for the cities as towns begin to economically prosper, not leaving anyone behind.

In the socialist nation, there will be proper respect for community & collective existence which comes to the individual as well where their potential is maximized through education & family collective values. These socialist family values viewing the family as a social unit. The Socialist State & community however are responsible for the children’s socialization & certain materials for education & living. Reagan pushed for such & his other conservative counterparts, but have we seen any meaningful change in the anatomy of the family under capitalism?

Owning of someone else’s labor will be severely regulated & eventually eliminated. Unions will be state-protected, but the state will not have supreme authority over the unions, rather, it should recognize unions as a power greater than the management & equal to the smaller proprietor class. Rapidly, with the supervision of the people by state, companies, businesses, shops, mines, schools, army, apartments, & more will be owned by those who occupy it democratically. The capitalists who refuse to give up their power will face the silver hammer of justice by the people & will be jailed accordingly if they refuse to cooperate with the new workers’ state.

Working masses through the collaboration of the many varieties of the working class, for example, working-class unity between, blue-collar workers (manual labor), pink collar workers (service industry), scarlet collar workers (sex industry), grey collar (elderly workers), orange collar (prison labor), green collar (environmental workers), no collar (freelancers), the new collar (tech industry), & acting class which no longer will sign slave contracts to Hollywood for fame will be advocated & engrained amongst the new free American society enriched by the system of socialism. The labor rights we enjoy today derive from the blood of many American workers. Strikes, protests, & even riots during the late 19th century. In the past, striking coal miners could face death, state-sponsored or private sponsored execution of workers. It is not hard to search up the many crimes committed by capitalist terror. Let us not forget the Ludlow Massacre, Blair mountain, Greensboro N.C. 1979, Philadelphia black neighborhood bombing 1985, & many more.

NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC PLANNING

A recent concern has spread amongst the average working American population. The concern that American-made products are in decline & that the American industry is constantly being stolen by foreign imports. That is half right when confronted by the nationalistic view when looking at the rest of the world with doses of American exceptionalism. Our homegrown industry, controlled by capitalists, seeks the maximum amount of traffic for for-profit purposes. So, they are willing to move the industry to other parts of the capitalist world to gain profit, those other parts of the capitalist world having fewer labor laws & rights, with small minimum wages. Especially parts of the world that are vulnerable, i.e., bombed, raped by neo-colonialism, victim to terrorism, or in civil war; & where the people are poor where their labor is cheapest to buy then is it cheapest to move industry of production to those overexploited nations. Our American companies under capitalism do not care about the well-being of any workers so long as the workers are quiet & under the boot of the boss.

Nationalization of important industries will bring about more American-produced products, that is, under socialism. Where the well-being of the population is more important than the profit motive. America is far more than capable of being self-sufficient. Under Socialism, the nation's surplus produced by industry will be given to the poorer countries of the world instead of stealing from the poor people’s pockets when under capitalism. One might argue that we give billions of dollars already to struggling nations, but why do the people remain poor & the rich in those nations dine like kings & queens?

The excess input by workers will not only be used for the wellbeing of the foreign exploited world but for the wellbeing of ourselves. Similar to taxes, except no longer is it targeted toward the primary individual. Furthermore, at the expense of the state, social insurance will be provided to all citizens. Following the Soviet model, it will not come from the salary of the workers but from the state budget & budgets of state enterprises.

No longer will jobs be moved away under a socialist union. Jobs will be a right granted by the drafting of a new socialist constitution for a post-America. With the nationalization of industry more jobs will be available for the masses, boosting the economy to reflect the growth of the people’s wealth rather than the wealth of the Wall Street fat cats. Furthermore, with a national plan, the well-being of every collective in each state of the union will dictate those in power to follow the instructions of the masses. The national plan shall be drafted to further the nation's own domestic interests, not foreign, but domestic within our own nation.

Economic plans in a socialist system in their essence are the allocation of resources based on needs. This will be done democratically in the form of an electronic state referendum on budgeting expenditures. Under economic planning in capitalism, they do not allow everyone to have a say in the budgeting, if that occurred, the capitalist might challenge, “How will we make our money contracting for useless wars Americans do not want? & how will Jeff Bezos & other huge CEOs get away with dodging taxes while getting richer off the workers’ tax dollars?” (this would be a very open capitalist who is open in his understanding of how capitalism functions)

Long Term economic plans will dominate the economic atmosphere of the nation for the development of the economy. These economic plans are for the improvement of society as a whole rather than the few & are something all of society has a say in be it from the workplace, enterprises, & working-class organization committees. Past socialist experiments greatly succeeded due to this & with our modern technology now it will be far greater in the democratic decision of economic planning.

An argument against this is that there are too many inputs & outputs for planning commissions to handle. That could have been the case in 1950 where calculations were done by hand but it is no longer the case in our modern world, the 21st century. Smartphones are able to plan complex multi-year plans for small economies as the computer is able to plan thorough plans for medium to large-sized economies. Supercomputers hold the largest economic planning power for the planning of massive economies far beyond complex beyond our human scope.

A socialist post-American economic planning system will have its roots of inspiration from the Chilean socialist economic planning in the 1970s with what they called Project Cybersyn. Even though the CIA directed economic sabotage to cripple the country’s economy, intelligent planning kept it going with a fraction of resources rescued & made available. Now, that was only 50 years ago, one could only imagine for now what we could do with a system like that now.

PEOPLE OVER PROFIT

Production for use over profit no longer will exchange values be predominant where production as a whole is done for the intention of the sale in the market. Things in capitalism are considered for sale rather than for use which results in switching to eco-friendly production as something very hard to enact than in the socialist mode of production where simple-shifting can be done by coherent plans. Capitalism has come up with planned obsolescence where products have their lives artificially shortened so that they break or fail more often to force consumers to consume more as if the American people can be treated as nothing but.

The waste of human labor, environmental damage, & general misery caused by the capitalist system is done for the lining of pockets of the few (who already are wealthy enough to make the kings & queens of the past gaze in envy). Under an American socialist system production will be made for use & maintenance so that human effort expended can be used to maximize improvements in society.

A system not addicted to profit will have a strong investment in people’s health & environmental sustainability in mind. Without a planned economy that eliminates competition driving production, the environment will be completely destroyed caused by decisions made by what is done for energy, buildings, & the use of resources & chemicals to use for capitalist interest. The USSA’s system’s purpose will not be endless profit & growth but as said many times before the wellbeing of society.

THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN THE USSA AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS

In the socialist nation, there will be proper respect for community & collective existence which comes to the individual as well where their potential is maximized through education & family collective values. Reagan pushed for such & his other conservative counterparts but have we seen any meaningful change in the anatomy of the family under capitalism? The ending of alienation is the goal of communists.

Social solidarity & defensive collective institutions will decry mistrust & self-seeking behavior. A sense of security, power, & happiness is to be granted to the individuals & collectives. Never forget that humans are social creatures, on the contrary to anti-communist propaganda, capitalism goes against human nature if there truly was one (unless granted by religions like Christianity which preaches humbleness & love for all). Common cooperation & mutual gain will further achievements & will liberate ourselves.

“Present-Day culture in this country is an instrument by which the capitalist class consolidates its dominant position. The prevailing systems of education, morality, ethics, science, art, patriotism, religion, etc., are as definitely parts of capitalist exploitation as the stock exchange” -William Z. Foster

The excerpt from 1932 still rings true today. Where often the capitalist forces are glorified or the media is used to subvert the selling of useless products. Bullying of the masses/individual, where if you want to be beautiful you must buy this, or if you’re fat buy this, or if you’re skinny eat this, or if you’re homosexual buy this product. Recently, even during the holy years of the 50s, sexual imagery has begun to dominate advertisements & other forms of media. They know what sells, so they exploit the inner urges of men & women to buy their products that essentially are tricking or hypnotizing tactics.

Capitalist media’s purpose is for American people to accept their state’s tyrannical rule & which must be destroyed during & after a communist revolution. Topple down the statues of murders & mass exploiters, do away with Fox News & Fox News’ Tucker Carlson pandering the fear of the unknown by scapegoating immigrants & queers, to CNN promoting black or queer or a minority being in power doing the most horrible things to Americans & to the third world but we’re told we mustn’t criticize them since they’re a minority doing it. The use of religious extremism, whether it be Protestant, Islamic, or anything else, shall be dealt with by the people being scapegoated by it. Religious fanaticism shall be combated during the building of a socialist union.

Who the socialist nation will promote would be true heroes like John Brown who was a radical abolitionist who took matters into his own hands to free the slaves, Bill Haywood who organized many strikes to combat the cutting of wages, Fred Hampton who organized the lobbying of Chicago officials to better schools for African American children, & many more Americans who furthered the democratic rights of American workers or combatted fascists both domestic & foreign. Statues of them should be erected, not confederate soldiers or slave platonists & Columbus who killed the indigenous. It is very ignorant to think it will preserve history, no one keeps statues of Hitler, least publically, for us to remember his espousing & puppeteering of man’s recent greatest atrocities.

The lost cause (& notions of “The War of Northern Aggression”) was, & continues to be, anti-union of any progressive kind. That is, though, when we do not consider the large leftist movements that dominated to combat racism in the south. Like the Young Patriots Organization which understood the class struggle.

There will be opposition to these radical changes. Reactionaries who seek to destroy the people’s government will not be tolerated. Open & discreet Nazis, those who spew genocidal, or anti-worker rhetoric will face the ultimate penalty. Especially terrorist groups who bomb & sabotage production or others who seek to rig elections for lying representatives. An abled working-class state will crush them under the might of the people to maintain the democratic order & will. Reactionaries & capitalists within the state will be purged in order to prevent the socialist state from regressing rather than leaping forward.

Regarding the question of how a cultural revolution will handle the state & bodies of the federal government, it will ideally be peaceful. Congressmen & congresswomen funded by corporate greed or are not a part of elected workers' councils will be removed from power in order to establish the working class as the ruling class of the state. Certain members of any state position by the past capitalist state with connections to state-sponsored terror like the voting for wars & bombings will be executed for jailed for their crimes against humanity. Similarly, billionaires of companies, an example being Nestle, who have prolonged restriction of resources during droughts & famines in the third world causing the death of many women & children in the thousands will face themselves as Nazis would face a court during the Nuremberg Trials. The only difference is that they will face the penalty as Hitler would have. For Hitler was in control of it all similar to how a capitalist is in control of his factory.

The trials shall be held nationwide & be televised for all the population to witness justice smashing into the faces of the bloodiest homegrown tyrants in America, Canada, & mayhap Mexico. Great quantities of their wealth will be taken away along with their mansions to be destroyed. Private property confiscated from their greedy hands will be given to the public or farming population, state-wise or communal-farming-wise. With the wealth taken away from the billionaire & millionaire class, it will be used in order to raise the wages of workers & maintain the wellbeing of society as a whole through strong economic planning.

The red banner through all this will rise in the new capital, Chicago, where the city will purge remnants of its capitalist past like the war on drugs & combat the capitalist intellectuals to create a modern industrial equivalent of a Soviet Moscow in which all workers will finally be proud of Chicago. Clean streets, responsible police, workplace democracy, statues of true American heroes, & economic planning will provide all of this.

Socialism & communism will be the liberation of the people, whether you like it or not.