c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > What do Americans have to gain from socialism as a world system?
Query: For what Americans might this question be even remotely a real question?
Answer: Americans whose own parents have not yet been born.
^^^^^^^ CB: If a lot of us ask it now, preserve it in archives of the internet and whatever literary medium replaces the internet, it is more likely that future generations will ask it or ask it sooner.
The human species is distinguished from other species by living generations of it trying to pass on messages about its experiences to unborn generations. That's how language and culture originated. Some hominids started thinking about "educating" their unborn great, great great, great... great grandchildren. So, they invented a way to pass on their experiences.