Reply #114: The American people, right now, seem to have very little

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"class consciousness," at least as traditional Marxist-Leninists have used the term. That is, very few Americans analyze their personal situation and their communitiies' situations with respect to their relationship to the means of production.

I write this knowing full well that Lenin distinguished between a 'class in itself' and a 'class for itself.' One can easily say that America manifests the former without manifesting much of the latter. As further proof, I have not heard one peep out of any maintsream politican calling for the U.S. to nationalize its energy industry and infrastructure, compensating where applicable and expropriating where not applicable. Not one word about a necessary step towards a 'socialist revolution'. So while I look forward to its historical inevitability (a la Marx), I am resigned to its probably not happening here in my lifetime.