Take this hypothetical scenario wherein
>All anti-communist propaganda is completely erased in the West
>A very balanced history is being taught in all Western schools on 20th century history
>Teaching Marx becomes acceptable and even somewhat popular in universities, especially for econ and history students
>All Westoid secret agencies stop infiltrating, oppressing, manipulating lefty parties
>Etc. - the point is that the political environment becomes completely fair
In such a scenario a communist movement would still not materilize in the West, reformist unionism would become more popular likely, but that's pretty much it if you think that it is still in the material interest of the labor aristocracy to conserve the current world order.
I'm very tempted to think that people who think otherwise are either completely idealist ("being able to tell the truth would alter cass interests") or conspiratorial ("we don't have communism because the CIA".)
I consider my position to be common sense, but feel free to attempt to change my mind.
>suppose there was imperialism without the consequences of imperialism
Yeah no I don't think I will. That's the crux of your take. Suppose there were a world, without the consequences of imperialism, but that there also was imperialism. The two don't go together. The situation you describe is somewhat parallel to what was going on in Germany in the 1910s with the SPD, and it still split up and there were even attempts at revolution. I'm inclined to believe, if there was a large legal/illegal pre-WW1 SPD-like organization in America and if it was crisis/revolution - then there would be some attempting an uprising.
You are retarded OP
>>2686639You are rather conservative in your estimation and I like that. In any case, yeah, it's a push the magic button *poof* scenario that is however intended to highlight a point. For sure, within years everything would revert back to how it was, if not worse, to compensate for the damage to the system.
But you see, we are having an interesting discussion.
>>2686642My life is shattered.