Could the United States have gone Communist?

True enough. All I'm saying is that it definitely isn't going to stay Communist-Stalinist for long. Too much pulling against that outcome.

An American Communist revolution would not want Stalinism and might not need Stalinism. The point would be to accelerate progress, not retard it.

I do think they could at least match the overall progress of standard of living of the USA OTL, at least for ordinary people, if not the total GDP. And I think they could well overtake even that.

They could of course also fail. But it's not like American revolutionaries are going to think slavish imitation of a regime desperate to catch up to a standard Americans had long surpassed is the goal.

To be sure, such a revolution is unlikely here unless things have recently got very bad compared to recent memory. But such reversals can and do happen.
 
Only one man could have saved America from Communism.....

Howard Hughes

he hated Communism,was an American hero,world`s first billionaire,and would have carried the loyalty of the CIA and the military....after toppling Communism he would have ended President of the USA and certainly avoided WWII and the debacles and scandals USA had afterwards.

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loughery111

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I do think they could at least match the overall progress of standard of living of the USA OTL, at least for ordinary people, if not the total GDP. And I think they could well overtake even that.

Forgive me if I strongly, strongly doubt that.
 
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