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  • What are your thoughts on both the cultural revolution as well as the concept of cultural revolutions in general?

    The CPC essentially disavows the cultural revolution as a large setback, something that I was surprised by when I first starting learning about this stuff.

    That said I fully believe a cultural revolution must happen in the United States as the fundamental culture of America is deeply sick with settlerism.

    I would assume that any real land back movement would include a cultural revolution.

    This means things like changing names of places, removing and destroying monuments, statues, mandatory re-education and prioritizing education of the crimes of the settler state.

    But destruction of the previous culture is only one part of the concept, there must be a culture to replace it with.

    This will be complex to address in the settler state, as the genocide of the indigenous population was so intense. In some cases there is no one to give the land back to directly, no surviving members of the tribe. This doesn’t mean we don’t tear down the Wal-Marts and the parking lot sprawl though, but it means a different approach needs to be taken.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii I think there needs to be an element of spirituality to the concept, something I know most Marxists reject wholesale.

    Places like that should be designated in a similar fashion as these monuments.

    How can the settler society rectify the sins of the settler state? Well there’s reparations, the wealth of the settler state needs to be re-distributed, that is a non-starter. But consider the dream of the settler. The dream of the settler has not changed in the 250 years this country has been around. The dream is to “own” land, to have a nice manicured lawn.

    Whether it’s the rich man’s dream of wine vineyards or the poor man’s dream of an inground pool, the land must be owned. Every settler believes this on a fundemental level, land ownership is the core root of the American settler state. Land owners originally were the only ones that could vote.

    How do you fix this mindset without a cultural revolution? Even with a cultural revolution, how do you fix the mindset? It’s more than I can say, I’m unsure but I do think it’s needed.