I was about to doompost about his projection of the timeframe we're dealing with, then I saw this was 2005. No, he's right that the US is going to collapse soon. Actually I think that in the history books it already has. But I'm not confident that in its collapse a brighter future is waiting, not itself soon at least. I think we're heading back to feudalism, from which we may eventually get a communist revolution.
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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.
That is not just a spontaneous evil that emerged from anglo-saxon blood or whatever (as much as people meme it so, which is fine). It is very plainly a product of the same forces who Fidel is talking about misusing science and technology misusing education and public media and education itself. Not that there would be zero anti-intellectualism in a socialist society, but there would be much less without these endless campaigns promoting it paired with extremely poor education standards and accessibility.
old men can have little a idealism, as a treat.
Idealism doesn't mean having optimism or literal ideals, it's about believing ideas are before matter, such as believing in something supernatural as the explanation for material phenomena.
It is idealism, but on the other hand… He also did lead a successful revolution and then successfully defended that revolution for decades from the full might of the US empire, so I certainly don't think it would be blind idealism in his case.