See the stickied comment below for an explanation and statement of our purpose, based on simple back-of-the-napkin math
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I read your program, it seems very much in the flavor of Social Democracy, and as a consequence erases Imperialism as the biggest factor in the United States economy. Some of your conclusions, like simply taxing the US to end global poverty, ignore the entire mechanism by which the US Empire runs, cheap labor in the Global South kept dependent on US dollars and foodstuffs.
Further, you reach out to the 1% as the target demographic for this movement, rather than the working class. The lower 90-99% of the 1% do not have the resources to enact change, nor the desire to. The 99% have the resources and the drive. This “change-enacting” resource is labor-power, brought together through organizing. The 1% will not collectively band together against the .1% in order to benefit the 99.9%, they will continue to support the same system of surplus-value extraction that forms the basis of their wealth. It is only the working classes that have the will and the means to create a better world.
Next, there’s a lack of Materialism, you place far more value on money than on actual production. All of these flaws absolutely cripple your analysis. Finally, the most damning, is a reliance on simple policy changes being possible in a system dominated by the Billionaires you claim as the enemy, the only way to actually wrest control from them is revolution.
I highly recommend you engage with political theory. I’m a Marxist-Leninist, so I keep an intro Marxist-Leninist reading list. Without understanding the how and why of the system, you can’t learn how to end it. Capitalism cannot be reformed to save it, merely delay collapse while still depending on Imperialism like European Social Democracies. We need Socialism, and revolutionary organizing to overcome the evils of today.
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It’s true, though. The US consumes far more than it creates, it is utterly reliant on a complex system of expropriation from the Global South. Michael Hudson’s Super-Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance goes over how the US in particular came to be the world’s largest Imperialist power (though I don’t agree with all of Hudson’s analysis). We can also see Lenin’s analysis in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism or this article on Imperialism, if you’re short on time.
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To be fair, Marxists have been attacking Imperialism since it began to solidify at the turn of the 20th century, and even as it was beginning to form in Marx’s time. Any methodology and analysis that excludes Imperialism as a factor is fundamentally wrong, the US economy is not inwardly supported but externally.
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I don’t really know what you’re getting at. Read the sources I’ve linked, do some study, all it seems to me is that you’re just laughing at someone who took OP seriously and offered a serious critique on the basis of it being a critique common to Marxists, which I already said I was.
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lol, landed gentry, afraid of a fair redistribution of land?
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