“I’m almost surprised you’re not antisemitic Elias,” a chat member once wrote. “It usually goes hand and hand [sic] with the whole Stalin did nothing wrong mantra,” alluding to Rodriguez’s support for old school communism.
“One of the biggest things that stalin [sic] didn’t do wrong was ending the most antisemitic regime ever yet known 2 man,” Rodriguez responded.
Still, when it came to race, Rodriquez’s hatred seemed reserved for white people.
“Lol you probably would have to actually genocide white people to make this a normal country,” Rodriguez wrote in one post. “Like even a very targeted and selective rehabilitation program would probably have to lead to the lifetime imprisonments of tens of millions of white people.”
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In all his rage though, Rodriguez had an almost wide-eyed optimism about the global south, which as a self-identified Maoist Third Worldist, he believed alone had “revolutionary potential.”
I don’t agree. Most of them will just fall into line living their lives in the new state. The ones that matter will be fighters and they’ll mostly die fighting. The ones that do not wish to fight will just fall into their lives in the new country.
Their children will be educated by the new state and their children will be better people.
I think I mostly agree with you, but how could it be possible to just fix the settler problem by education alone out in the countryside of the US? Would it not become a reactionary stronghold? How could you consistently find teachers in extremely white rural areas who wouldn’t just reproduce the white supremacist ideology for the next generation?
Like, think about why the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution were pursued in China. And in China, the bourgeoisie was a relatively small portion of the population even in the countryside with all the landlords. In the US, essentially every white person who owns land is literally benefitting from a multiple century long settle colonialist program. I don’t know if you fix that just by putting the more relatively progressive people in charge of education.
If you can’t get them locally then ship em in from loyal party members. Is the party cadre going to enjoy that outcome? Fuck no. But they could do it. Give them a double-job as living in the area will make them useful for analysing how to alleviate the poverty there.
Once people’s lives start actively improving they will not be a problem.
You could move the settlers out of rural areas and return it to Indigenous stewardship/ allow it to rewild.
Going back and upholding all the various 19th century treaties with each First Nation seems like both the hardest sell but also the most necessary part of a revolutionary program in the US.
I imagine in this context the treaties don’t hold up because the US no longer exists, so it’s really just relocating settlers away from rural areas and letting indigenous people do whatever they want. There would need to be new rules and boundaries established due to climate change and the fact they many Indigenous nations don’t exist anymore or have been forced to leave their ancestral lands, but I think trying to relitigate old treaties is less elegant than other solutions
That is never going to be feasible in the first place. Lifetime imprisonment for 10-90 million people? Think of the logistics, think of the resources needed to make that happen. Like one prison riot and your revolution is over.
China is doing it to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang right now. 500 million people in prison. Putting the ethics aside, I’ve found it a pretty huge inspiration for my Factorio playthrough to try to replicate the logistical achievement.
Yes of course the PRC has 50% of the Chinese population in prison. This makes total sense.
Mao once said that political power grows out the center of a TARDIS, that’s how they manage to find enough space for everyone.
China is an authoritarian state, they mandate that the 50% least loyal population are uygulag’d at all times.
How else are they supposed to transition to green energy as quickly as they are? Extracting electricity directly from the human body is the cleanest energy possible
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