"While the socialist left has fantasized for generations about global revolutions and global class wars"

Global-scale revolution would be rare and unprecedented, however national-scale revolution is extremely common, almost all nations have, are having, or will have one. USA would not exist without our national-scale revolution around 1776 and then the follow-up act around 1812. France wouldn't be as it is today without its 1789 event. Today it seems as though the people in the Middle East and Eastern Europe want things similar to those things Americans and French wanted ~ 200 years ago. And so such revolutions have continued up to this day. One is happening in Ukraine right at this very moment. [0] Don't worry though, it's not televised, and the NYT characterizes the situation merely as a "crisis." [1, though to be fair, the article and its wording were more soft-ball in the past than it is at this moment in time].

I believe the probability of something like that happening in the USA at this moment in time is small. I think the USA is at a different point on the sociological development curve and the USA's problems have morphed in such a way that it should be possible to sort them out either by modifying the government (which is the entire purpose of the orig. architecture of the government, though it's been perverted by generations of asshole politicians) or building "Foundation-like things" on top of the existing economy. The mass of people in America are beginning to see the cause and effect relationships that have hiddenly influenced humanity for millennia. The cause and effect relationships of our current national situation will becomes more and more apparent to a larger and larger portion of the population with time, and at some point a threshold of action will be crossed, and some sort of change will occur. Dubious people at the core of the dubious phenomenon generally speaking no longer have mercenaries, and only have limited influence over the government. And everyone knows where these people live because rich people tend to cluster together and live in the same neighborhoods. When the country was founded the "rich people" who were "pulling the strings" were back in England. And we won anyway. So it's a much more tractable problem now that all the players are in one place, and everyone can know who they all are, where they work, and where they live. I can't wait until a critical mass of people feel like peacefully solving the problem.

One of the things that I think is most interesting about this Ukraine story is how it has def. been "blacklisted" by the mainstream media in the USA-- essentially even the NYT, which is using doublespeak at least some of the time in its reporting about the happenings. Why is this blacklisting/whitewashing occurring, esp. in a country (USA) that was founded by a bloody, violent revolution? Understanding that cause/effect would be very important to helping America at this moment in time.

If we take the pulse of Belarus, we see that the authoritarian dictator there has made clapping illegal in response to similar dynamics playing out there. [2] Yes, this really happens on Earth in 2014.

[0] http://zyalt.livejournal.com/984735.html
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/europe/ukraine-leade...
[2] http://www.economist.com/node/18929417