Why did Marxism fail to gain traction in America?
It gained huge traction, battles between workers and owners were much more violent and bloody in America compared to Europe. The reason it suddenly fizzled out was because FDR figured out that by tying all Americans to home ownership they would become too invested in the capitalist system to root for its overthrow.
LmaoWe'll never know
>>18389647If tying all americans to home ownership erased communism from americans' hearts. How come nowadays americans are becoming incresingly left wing? Mom and dad still own homes and will soon die leaving them all vacant for zoomers and millenials, yet they are political extremists, millenials almost completely socialist leaning and some zoomers too (though zoomers seem to be majority right wing, 65% far right 35% commies is my estimate).
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>>18389642 (OP)There is not a unified working class self aware of itself, and americans get a lot of money in cheap food and gas from exploiting other countries.
>>18389642Maybe because it's shit?
>>18389651Retard.
>>18389651Those homes need massive amounts of funds to repair stuff like cabinets and the foundation or roofs etc. Property requires a lot of maintaining and property taxes which is why the black community was poor in the 90's because even though they all inherited their parent's homes those homes were condemned and they didn't have the money to fix it.
Civilized people prefer social democracy.
>>18389642Mostly because of Keynes and FDR and others adopting Keynesian economic principles (at least in theory if not in practice). It may not have solved the "contradictions of capitalism" as Marxists would put it, but it did give space for state intervention. The post war boom also made it so that there was no need for revolution - why would you do so when the US is the leader of the West, politically and economically?Of course, this would not last and with the end of the cold war things are different. However, Marxism is seen as an ideology that worships the state and its leader, antithetical to many Western and American values. You may object that this is not true, and you'd be right, but we both know class consciousness cannot be realized if the people of that class cannot be bothered to read the terse, wordy, and heavy tomes of Marx, Engels, Lenin or Lukacs.
>>18389642The only time working conditions in America have ever actually been bad enough to be on the brink of a workers revolt was during the Gilded Age and early 20th century, nowadays it's just a bunch of tankie retards schizoposting on social media about how they never touch grass
More equal society: less envy. It's really that simple.
America implemented half of the items on the List of Demands from the Communist Manifesto as it struggled to sort out its own values. Things you little chubby gyatt skibidis waddle around benefitting from but can't acknowledge - no child labor, public school for everyone. So some elements of Marxism already went through the digestive system, they are just unrecognized.Marx fought against class values because there were people around who explicitly endorsed it - all of Europe once agreed that if you were born into one of the special people families, the state worked for you and that was good.America's national myth includes a rejection of these values, but saying that you are abandoning this ancient building block of your civilization and actually following through on banishing it are very different things. And we are blind to it.Nobody has yet come up with a chapter of history that cannot be examined as a story of class struggle even if the dumb people in America say that they have.
Marxists are bugmen who see everything in materialist blinders and so are inherently repugnant to ensouled beings.
Cause democratic process allowed for labor reforms that didn't require violent revolution, and the standard of living was also much higher on average than in Europe so even the poorest workers didn't feel totally oppressed. Social mobility was a thing, in America, not so much in Europe. There people had no real recourse except revolution to change the social order. Every square inch of land was owned by somebody, there were centuries of aristocratic dynasties who ruled over everything and claimed everything for themselves. They might make noises about passing reforms but had no real reason to do more than performative changes that maintained their power and privilege. In America, political reforms actually worked.
It gained so much traction that it's utterly ubiquitous. The fish doesn't notice the water etc.
>>18389642Marxist revolutions only succeeded in agrarian backwaters. In industrialised countries like East Germany, it had to be introduced forcibly.
>>18389642Class warfare is retarded. Being rich and poor are not inherent states of being.
>>183896421. Marxism is a critique of liberalism and liberalism is the ruling ideology of America. 2. Marxism claims religion is the "opium of the people", but that greatly contradicts the history of black people in America, who used religion as a source of liberation. The average black person is gonna trust MLK, Nat Turner, Booker T. Washington, and Frederick Douglass over a foreign German person
