Up Come the Prols
If you’ve wondered what a socialist revolution in the United States would look like, rewatch the footage of January 6th.
5 min readJan 6, 2022
The first true, real-life Communist I ever met was one of my college professors, an over-caffeinated sprite who adored the sound of her own voice, and proudly declared one afternoon that “I’m a Marxist Feminist.”
It stuck with me, not because of some archaic red panic, but because I couldn’t understand how someone with a PhD in Medieval Literature, who’d spent years perfecting her French in Parisian cafes, who lived in Manhattan in an apartment purchased with money from her substantial trust fund, could unironically favor a philosophy that would guarantee her annihilation.
But you are the bourgeoise, I remember thinking. And it’s the bourgeoise who fall.
Ten years later, the thought is almost daily. It’s no secret that there’s been a rise in socialist leanings in this country, and among my generation. Given the massive glut of wealth at the top of our society and multiple recessions, dreams of castrating a billionaire or two are to be expected.
