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<https://tinyurl.com/24k2e9zc> marxist.com

Revolutionary Communists of America .. Bolshevik training ground
.. Delegates discussed the rapidly evolving political situation ..
"We are living through a major turning point in world history .."
Tectonic, epoch-defining shifts in world relations .. Now,
American imperialism is in relative decline, and China and Russia
have emerged as formidable imperialist rivals .. All of this ..
will provoke class struggle and social explosions around the world
in the coming years. Burdened by billions of dollars of debt, the
ruling class must attack the working class ..

"What is the program of the ruling class globally? The huge growth
of the debt .. They have to cut the cost of labor in each country
if they're going to be competitive. It's a program of war against
the working class .." The conclusion of the discussion .. the
urgent need to build the Revolutionary Communist International ..

The American ruling class has been caught off guard by its sudden
decline .. While the "soft left" weeps over the election of Trump,
Marxists are not demoralized in the slightest because we understand
what Trumpism really represents. There is no rising tide of fascism,
no Bonapartist military-police dictatorship, and no fundamental
"shift to the right" in US society. On the contrary, there is
enormous class anger fermenting in US society, but due to the utter spinelessness of the so-called "left," Trump has been able to tap
into this anger - for now. But he will be unable to deliver on his
promises, and the ground will be prepared for a dramatic swing to
the left at a certain stage ..

...

Vision from the Revolutionary Communists of America.

<https://tinyurl.com/2yalpnuy>

America: Dysfunction, Decline, and Despair ..

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Oleg Smirnov wrote

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/31/2325245/-America-Dysfunction-Decline-and-Despair-Part-One

While the 1 to 15 illusions followed by their reality are all true, it
is not unexpected given that the US had been some kind of an
entrepreneur (high risk, high reward) society from the beginning. The
problem is not people accepting high risk - from Europeans taking a long
sea trip to reach America hundreds of years ago to Latin Americans
trekking thousands of miles to reach America today.
The following articles explain what entrepreneurship entails.

1. 10 Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/characteristics-of-successful-entrepreneurs

2. How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America https://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/how-the-entrepreneurial-work-ethic-exhausted-america

The problem is America today is nowhere as opportunity rich as before.
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Oleg Smirnov wrote

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/31/2325245/-America-Dysfunction-Decline-and-Despair-Part-One

While the 1 to 15 illusions followed by their reality are all true,
it is not unexpected given that the US had been some kind of an
entrepreneur (high risk, high reward) society from the beginning.
The problem is not people accepting high risk - from Europeans
taking a long sea trip to reach America hundreds of years ago to
Latin Americans trekking thousands of miles to reach America today.
The following articles explain what entrepreneurship entails.

1. 10 Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/characteristics-of-successful-entrepreneurs

2. How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America https://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/how-the-entrepreneurial-work-ethic-exhausted-america

The problem is America today is nowhere as opportunity rich as before.

The "high risk, high reward" kind is not compatible
well with the concepts of social security, welfare state,
equal opportunity society, protection of elderly etc.

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The "high risk, high reward" kind is not compatible
well with the concepts of social security, welfare state,
equal opportunity society, protection of elderly etc.

No single independent concept is completely compatible with other
concepts all the time.

As people's opportunity shrinks collectively speaking, social security
also shrinks. This is why Trump was elected to lead the revolution
according to his supporters and independent observer like Emmanuel Todd.
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<https://tinyurl.com/27we5xh4> dailykos.com

A dominant myth of the Gilded Age was that of the "self-made man," ..
Many .. indeed came from modest beginnings, but their success was not
simply the result of grit and ingenuity. It was built on systems of exploitation - of workers, immigrants, women, and children - alongside suppression of unions, violent strike-breaking, predatory pricing,
insider access to capital and government, and corporate consolidation.
They used secret rebates, bribery, and monopolistic practices to
consolidate power and crush competitors. Despite their ruthless
tactics, these men were celebrated as "captains of industry" and
helped to shape the mythology of American capitalism .. Immense wealth accumulation by the few was seen as both deserved and necessary ..

Industrial growth was underpinned by widespread labor abuse. Child
labor was rampant. Workdays ranged from 10 to 16 hours, six days a
week .. Workplaces were frequently unsafe, resulting in countless
injuries and deaths. Wages were kept low .. Housing conditions were
grim .. There were virtually no labor protections .. The illusion
that U.S. capitalism was uniquely moral, fair, and merit-based became
embedded in the national consciousness. Inequality wasn't just
tolerated; it was rebranded as a form of justice. The most extreme
conditions of the industrial age were cloaked in myths that portrayed
suffering as the result of personal failure .. Intellectual
justifications for inequality gained traction .. The concept of
"Social Darwinism" .. Pseudo-scientific rationalization .. The result
was a society in which illusion became expectation ..

...

Right-libertarian concepts (cognate to "social-darwinist" attitudes)
imply that social development is hindered by pro-social-security
regulations. And the latter is "automatically" associated with "big government", so that libertarian preference is to "small government". Meanwhile, the recent rapid economic growth in Asia give examples
where right-libertarian(-like) order for regular people is combined
well with "big" (strong paternalist) governance/regulation, and since
it doesn't fit well into typal conceptual framework, here's a field
for ambiguity and controversy.
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Agree.

1. The Founding Fathers did believe they should focus to limit the
government such that it does not limit the people's freedom.

2. State rights. The US is united to safeguard the security of the
nation as a whole. Otherwise each state could have its own standard on
ethics, religiously or non-religiously.

3. The US is most religious nation among all modern nations. Share
religious ethics often smooth the conflicts to various degree. The
problem is that the US is getting more secularized over time.

4. Entrepreneurs supposedly create jobs for other people. This is the
one virtue that trumps all vices.
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