It’s not incorrect that the residue of McCarthyism and American culture has put up an obstacle between the working class and socialism.
People aren’t going to have their material conditions deteriorate to an arbitrary point then suddenly say “hm, yes, time for Communism” if they’ve been primed to hate anything to do with socialism since birth.
No, but when people’s material reality conflicts with the prevailing narrative they question it.
Right… but leftward, or rightward?
One has the path of the least resistance.
But that’s not how shit works though. It’s not an either or, people with a certain class position will never go left. Pepe that radicalize to the right tend to be people who had major privilege but lost it to the liberal world order. This is why militias are so big in the rust belt states.
