The United States in transition

Why now?

 The USSR began to fall behind the West in 1965 and the currents of change began to develop in 1983 and slowly became a torrent of peaceful opposition to an ossified society and one-party government. In 1991,the All-Russia Congress of Trades Unions not the CIA brought about a change of course. The outcome? At first slash-and-burn economics before stability was restored, at least in terms of government finances.

Today America is changing too because its industrial supremacy but not its culture of invention may have ended. The appalling levels of innovation by its competitors màrks America out as a leader in most fields. Its competitors such as Germany are technically gifted but all-at-sea in technological and innovative terms (or frames of reference).

 America is approaching its problems in a different way. Its problems are singular, namely,failure to raise taxes and procure a social and health safety net ,the latter to reduce pressure on net and gross incomes.

 Changes are moving rapidly ahead in the US under a President who is one of our own.

 China? Will it too change? 

 Yes,it will change too but there is no real appetite for change outside Hong Kong. America must change first. 

According to alarming reports,China is far from a workers state no more than Ireland but Ireland is no longer a backward country. 

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14.11.2021

A century later. Filial agency.

But first,what do the following prove?

Allentown.Gary,Indiana.Flint, Michigan.

(Or,what a throwaway pair of words from Lenin concerning Social Democracy can tell us....)

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 Lenin talked about a movement in "leading strings" in the earliest years of the last century as he tried to shake off filial loyalties and the ties of agency as he entered his twenty-year period of isolation and alienation.

America is no longer tied by its " leading strings" to a mother who has taken her infant out for a stroll. Its founding fathers are long dead. They lived in an age of opportunity and growth. America's industry has closed. It is a society past its best, encumbered by private debt and unrealistic expectations.

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America's future? It's dead? The words of a trade union doyenne!

Old Mother Jones words come to mind,"Remember the dead but fight like hell for the living".

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Uncle Joe says,

Forward! A second democratic revolution! A new 1776!