[AshleyO]

And Mao mobilized a peasant class, Drew.

While I understand your trepidation of popular rhetoric of the states and admittedly I'm confident that the US would much rather embrace fascism long before it embraces communism.

But we can not ignore the fact that there IS a seed of class consciousness arising in the people of the US. You can even see it here on the boards. What we once had as hardline libertarians have changed to red anarchism and a plethora of members who embrace socialism or even some are admittedly communist.

And that's something that's so interesting about our situation today. The people have never before until the advent of the internet, had such access to communication.

We live in the age of "prove it". Ideas that are presented on the web are viciously contested. Having to make justifications for a point for example, improved my writing skills in school. I didn't learn how to write good essays in school, I learned by sparring with Saya, H_P, and others.

Today, it is so much easier to politicize the disenfranchised and the apathetic. We are educated on several fronts now due to popular access to others.