I was recently in a conversation with a self-described MagaCommunist who held the position that the primary contradiction in the USA was that the financial owning class owned all of the means of production and that the contradictions of settler colonialism were secondary and could only be resolved through a workers’ state.
I realized that I hold the position that settler colonialism is the primary contradiction in the USA, but I also found that I struggled to articulate it effectively. I’m looking for your own thoughts or writings that I can study to learn more on this topic.
Imo the US is kind of unique in that it is an extreme example of a society where you have many different types of exploiting and exploited classes and they are all important in the analysis of American society. There are too many contradictions in American society, each with a large influence, to say that any one of them truly dominates. This is not to mention, that the American contractions reinforce one another.
This is partly a result of the USA being very large in size (closer to a continent than a single country) and partly a result of the fact that the US developed an industrial capitalist economy very late compared to the Europeans (thus its contradictions haven’t fully “boiled down” to a simple bourgeoise vs proleteriat contradiction yet).
Any successful communist movement in the united states will have to address the mess of American contradictions at once. Either that, or by the time conditions in the US become revolutionary, some of its existing contradictions will have already collapsed. Certainly, I can see the collapse of American imperialism (which is happening right now) happen before a communist revolution in the US. Furthermore, settler rule in the US also appears to have reached a terminal crisis, with the newer generations no longer able to participate in the settler real estate bubble that began after WW2.