Individualism on the surface is as capitalist as the dollar bill, but it just as much can be against capital in pinning the need of self-reliance as only attainable through a socialist society rid from coercion.
That only a socialist revolution can achieve true independence.
The American civilization was fundamentally built upon an individualist mythos - an idea of independence and self-reliance from state intervention - and fundamentally speaking, this isn't contradictory on the surface to the aims of a proletarian-led America.
The goal of the proletarian socialist movement will be, not only to cultivate new myths based on revolution and idealized end-goals, but, to reshape old myths of America in the interests of the proletariat.
Ever since the founding of America, there was a particular and continuous stream of myths and spirits which were formed out of the direct action and ideas of the American people.
From the myth of discovery, to the mythologization of the founders, to manifest destiny, and so on.
The worker sells labor-power and receives wages. The capitalist purchases labor-power and puts it to work. If labor-power did not create more value than it costs, there would be neither profit nor capital accumulation. The meme assumes the very relation it thinks it disproves.
Ever since the founding of America, there was a particular and continuous stream of myths and spirits which were formed out of the direct action and ideas of the American people.
From the myth of discovery, to the mythologization of the founders, to manifest destiny, and so on.
It will build revolution as not just 'an event in history', but as a required step for which the American proletarian is the central man, among the others of his class, in the frontlines to forever end their servitude and exploitation.
Workers' syndicates will act as the skeleton of the soon-to-be proletarian nation, rejuvenating the corpse which the nation-state has desecrated on. Springing new life of the organs and skin of America, it will give full and proper expression to and of the American civilization.
@Enphian It's wild to look at an economic system hardwired for endless accumulation and pretend it has nothing to do with ecological collapse. We're locked into burning hydrocarbons because production is coordinated by profit and market competition rather than actual human need.
@dionysianfutuwa Marx's critique of political economy is just an applied science for destroying capitalism. We analyze how money and value mediate human relations so we know exactly how to abolish them. The concept of value is a crosshair that flashes red when we need to smash something.