Whatever they want it to be

Asocial media meme sponsored by the capitalist think tank Hillsdale “College” asks the question, “Is the U.S. at ‘risk’ of becoming a socialist state?”

For one to believe that the U.S. is at “risk” of becoming a socialist state is to admit that one hasn’t so much as the slightest understanding of what a socialist state would be. Socialist society would be delineated by the social ownership and democratic administration of the means of industrial/economic production and, concomitantly, the abrogation of the capitalist system of production in its entirety.

So too would such a society enable workers to receive the (full) economic benefit of (their) labor power and (their) intellectual power. Currently, the lion’s share of worker-produced economic wealth is appropriated by their capitalist masters through a bourgeois system of legality known as private profit.

Ergo, the mistaken belief that the U.S. is somehow on the verge of adopting such a socioeconomic arrangement is nothing more than a function of indoctrination imposed upon workers by way of omnipresent capitalist culture daily — indeed on a minute-by-minute basis.

Therefore, the assertion that the U.S. is at “risk” of becoming a socialist state is nothing short of laughable. Since most workers haven’t an understanding of their actual position vis-a-vis capitalist society, there is absolutely nothing that would suggest that anything approximating a mass socialist movement exists in this society.

Simply stated, and “thanks” to the conditioning ways of capitalist culture, precious few workers realize their status as wage slaves; that which is partially borne out by the fact that many workers have been conditioned to think of themselves as being capitalists.

In brief, a socialist society would not be portrayed by anything that this Hillsdale “College” needs for you to believe.

Guy Marsh Lancaster