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Replace 'US' with Mordor and it'll be clearer why he's wrong
"Able to use science and technology for their own benefit", Half the population thinks vaccines cause autism and use 'overeducated academic' as a slur, and the other half believe we go to war for the benefit of the people we're invading
Imperial Russian peasants literally ran around burning and massacring villages of minorities, lynching intellectuals, and literally worshiped the Tsar as Jesus' literal second-in-command on earth. If Lenin and the bolsheviks could turn a backwards backwater barbaric empire into a industrialized powerhouse standing equal to the western capitalists states in a generation, then thinking America is somehow unique and distinct from the Tsarist Empire and all other empires that have and do exist, then I can say nothing else than you are committing the same error of American Exceptionalism that Stalin denounced in 1929.
Bingo. Communists focus first on literacy and education because both are critical for socialist society, where workers are collectively running society. If communists around the world can succeed then so can a potential post-US Empire socialist society.