| > Mexico is the country of inequality You seem to be saying that the revolution didn't work out as hoped. Which isn't surprising; many things don't. But that doesn't mean the revolution didn't happen, or that it wasn't motivated by inequality. > Likewise, I admire your optimism that Chinese inequality will be solved just as soon as the newly rich realize that they're Communists. I hope the future will prove you right. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that China has already had one revolution where inequality was a driving force. That the inequality is returning is again no proof that a revolution couldn't happen. > Neither a race war nor a class war will happen in the US. The US has a long history of racial violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_Un... Further, unrest usually starts with the people getting the shortest end of the stick, and in the US that has a strong racial component. That sort of unrest quickly sets off white people; during Ferguson, for example, you had heavily armed white people coming to Ferguson to "help" and plenty more offering. I agree they are unlikely to happen in the next couple of decades, though. > the US lacks the strong cultural/religious ideologies necessary to organize armies and instigate revolutions Keep telling yourself that. We've already had two organized revolutions in the US: the War of Independence and the Civil War. The latter of which was a war driven by race and economics. Further, there are plenty of ideologies available on the fringe. See, e.g., Niewart's long look at the US protofacist right. |