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I was thinking about how the idea of some form of secession of states is always discussed in some really silly right-wing fantasy contexts but has there been any discourse in leftist circles about this? Especially in terms of the completely broken political system.

Otherwise is this a completely stupid idea on its face? Either way I'm just interested to hear about people's thoughts.

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[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

A fully dissolved and collapsed america will be Hell itself for its population of scavengers and murderers but it will be an unalloyed good for the rest of the world and the global south getting some breathing room is the only hope for humanity, so

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The global south is already getting breathing room and will continue to by China's influence and ability to finance development usurping the IMF and World bank and breaking the limbs of US sanction capabilities. Especially with Russia and China allied more because Russia has no such compunctions of "non-intervention" while China is also helping train military and police as announced in the China-Africa summit.

Also there are way too many variables to say that the US "collapsing" would be an 'unalloyed good' for the world because what the hell does that collapse look like and into whose hands are regions consolidated under? It would certainly not remain a local event either; both to neighboring countries as well as all of the foreign military bases and navy contingents will still be active. and there are also nuclear bombs which would likely fall into the hands of whatever warlords or groups, which again "fully dissolved and collapsed" in such an idealist phrase with no concept of what that would look like, how that would happen, what the arrangement of forces would be, etc. tells us nothing. 'unalloyed good' is a drastic overstatement from zero information for such a world-shaking event as that would be. It also just writes off the US' internal colonies and their fates in a very eco-fascist-adjacent kind of way.

China's plan is much more thoughtful and shrewd for the global south to de-imperialize, and is without haphazard idealist concepts and showing itself to be successful and sustainable. And how the global north's working class prepares and navigates and dictates the subsequent and inevitable ensuing revolutionary moments as capitalism runs into catastrophic crisis due to not being able to expand, and contracting heavily due to expansion of Chinese capital, irreconcilably for the west multi-polarizing the world and global south is its own question


which should have the actual communists already be organized in ways to do everything they can to not have it fall into whatever fascistic fallout world you're envisioning, but instead successful socialist revolutions including de-colonial socialist revolutions where it applies.

[–] LeopardShepherd@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does it necessarily need to be a completely chaotic process? Could there be a pathway for new forms of government or organisation that's better for people?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nuclear weapons make it pretty hard to visualize. I can''t imagine a way that different nuclear sites landing in the hands of opposing quasi-states in a hot war could ever end well.

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

whoever controls north dakota and eastern montana will be the new Great Khan

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

in some places material conditions will improve and embryonic new social orders will form. There's a silver lining to be found if you squint hard enough