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I think revival is overstating, it’s more like the lack of necessity-treats (healthcare/homes) leads people to question the system somewhat, but as we can see as soon as boring bureaucrat is elected, the moral side of the argument falls under, system doesn’t change, they swing back to amusing rightwinger, system still doesn’t change, they vote for bureaucrat again. And activity at low level, while in some cases is inspiring, is roughly at same level as historically.
Re: ussr being complete midwits about marxism because shops in USA had treats is not related to violent outbursts/poor impulse control, which is typical to lead poisoning. No theory of marxism explains glasnost however you put it, i better believe gorbie wife was deep cover agent (for treats)
Americans seem to structurally have one third petit bougie demographic or similarly treated workers to be indistinguishable (which is like 15% in other places), for a century or more, working class cant dislodge it, then big capital will (and does), they go fash as expected, and empire start to search for loot to satiate them
I'm really not overstating anything, there has indeed been a massive revival of socialist thought among the youth of the western world and even the wider world in general, despite the fact economic recessions and degrading conditions have been a constant through out the neoliberal period, yet it wasn't until the late 2010s that we saw any widespread movement back toward progressive politics let alone socialist organizing
This sentiment doesn't make any sense, obsession with American consumerism and lack of interest in collective organizing is precisely the textbook condition of someone who suffers from antisocial outbursts and poor impulse control and most crucial of all those aren't the only symptoms of lead poisoning
By the fall of the Soviet Union lead exposure was more severe than even in the US, particularly in terms of food products and worst of all baby food
Millions of Soviet citizens were lead poisoned from childhood, sorry but that absolutely had an effect
But it wasn’t lack of interest, some collectives continued fighting in the 90s (I’m talking collective farms and strikes), and not just because of infernal conditions of 90s, but over the concept of privatization as such. The destruction was performed from the top, at first bumblingly unleashing private forces and then doing jack shit to kill them. At more involved level you can say intelligentsia did it for treats, but that’s not lead poisoning but lack of cultural revolution/second purges/integration into work force
There was that itty bitty 2008 crash, which was worse than dotcom on real economy, and then shit with healtcare getting worse, cause boomers are attached to the state, while rest of people isn’t.
Was pink tide also lead poisoning? Or black panthers? (You might have a point about amerikan adventurists like bla, i can make up 50 plans more plausible than whatever the fuck they were doing)
I do think environmental factors play underappreciated role in history, but those are bad harvests forcing mass migrations (see from pov of people “invading” rome), either by climate change or pest arrival, pandemics, solar/ice ages interplay, but those psychological stories of ooh everybody was drunk all the time in medieval era, or they all got lead poisoned into stupor are convenient individualism back door of history. Its easier to believe that american cruelty, optimism and lack of memory is something environmental rather than superstructural society producing same people over and over
I'm not claiming lead poisoning is the sole determining factor, I'm claiming it's a major factor, millions of Soviets were lead poisoned, which means unfortunately like their American counterparts they had severe deficiencies in reasoning, memory retention, emotion regulation, mood regulation, impulse control, empathy, compromised hand-eye coordination, damage to the blood-brain barrier (which is a monstrous condition all on its own) and that's just the brain
So yes behind so many movements, events, people and historical outcomes of the late 20th century, lead is the silent killer, the feather that tipped the scales in the favor of reaction over and over again, because billions literally suffered from it
Well for one they didn’t have that many cars, for two - party functionaries (or student dipshits) compared to say tractor drivers are least likely to be exposed, yet it seemed they worked very diligently to get their own candle making factory, while people just wanted them to chill with alcohol ban and adjust the production priorities somewhat
Soviet lead exposure came from food and proximity to lead mining operations and munition factories (which were unfortunately everywhere)
The party functionaries ate lead (from childhood onward), as did a majority of the population