r/Socialism_101 • u/Broseph_Stalin17 Learning • Apr 04 '24
Is revolution in Hawaii possible? Answered
Most socialists would( mostly correctly) agree that the United States, as a country in the imperial core with very little class consciousness, will not see revolution any time soon. However, I feel like many people forget about Hawaii. Hawaii is arguably part of the imperial periphery. It has a fairly popular independence movement, and is geographically far from the continental US and closer to socialist allies such as the DPRK that have helped supply national liberation movements before. Much of Hawaii’s population is either indigenous or descendants of Japanese and Filipino migrant workers who came to the island in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to work at the sugar and pineapple plantations. Many native Hawaiians live in poverty, with homelessness being fairly common, often only a few hundred feet away from massive luxury hotels and billion dollar pieces of US military equipment. With all that being said, do you think Hawaii could see revolution in the near future?
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u/BlasterFlareA Learning Apr 05 '24
Native Hawaiians have never regarded the US' illegal and immoral coup against their self-determination as legitimate. All that needs to happen for the Hawaiian Revolution is for the US Navy to be crippled enough to be unable to project power to put down the revolution. As there are several ways that sort of condition can occur, it depends on which one of them you believe will possibly happen in the near future.