What would be the name of a Socialist America?
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A Leninist America will be the American Socialist/Soviet/People's Republic or something similar, perhaps the American Federal Socialist Republic or the Union/Federation of American Socialist Republics if you wish to keep the old name's emphasis on a union of constituent polities. A very moderate socialist revolution might just keep the same name. The Socialist States of America or what-have-you feels unlikely, however: it seems to me that any group of revolutionaries who can be bothered to change the name will want to replace the "state" bit with the more explicitly democratic "republic." The exception would be the anarchist revolution, which would probably take after Anarchist Ukraine and just dub their government the Free Territories or something similar.
Even after a communist revolution, the US would never call itself the “Soviet” anything unless everybody decided to take up Russian during the political turmoil.
Isn't that basically just a TL/DR for the original Declaration Of Independence? Maybe minus the "communes".
The Russian Empire became the USSR because it was a large, multiethnic empire and there was (in the very beginning) a pretense that the new state would not simply be Russian Empire 2: This Time with Communism, but rather a true federal state of equal Socialist partners.
Whoops.
Anyway, the US doesn't really have the problem of multiple national identities within the country at the time of any reasonable Communist government.
Whoops.
Anyway, the US doesn't really have the problem of multiple national identities within the country at the time of any reasonable Communist government.
The Democratic People's Republic, no addition for the most exceptional country in the world.
(Or Best America, due to all the arguments about one country claiming a title that applies to two entire continents, when it isn't even the geographical majority of one of them)
(Or Best America, due to all the arguments about one country claiming a title that applies to two entire continents, when it isn't even the geographical majority of one of them)
Langston Hughes:
Put one more s in the U.S.A.
To make it Soviet.
One more s in the U.S.A.
Oh, we'll live to see it yet.
When the land belongs to the farmers
And the factories to the working men —
The U.S.A. when we take control
Will be the U.S.S.A. then.
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/one-more-s-usa
Put one more s in the U.S.A.
To make it Soviet.
One more s in the U.S.A.
Oh, we'll live to see it yet.
When the land belongs to the farmers
And the factories to the working men —
The U.S.A. when we take control
Will be the U.S.S.A. then.
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/one-more-s-usa
Depends on what sort of socialism but a Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse-Tung Thought Revolution in the 1960s/70s would be something like the Union of Socialist People's Republics probably
With a Socialist People's Republic of New Afrika, Aztlan, Boricua, Hawai'i, etc., with a ton of autonomous zones for various indigenous tribes most likely
With a Socialist People's Republic of New Afrika, Aztlan, Boricua, Hawai'i, etc., with a ton of autonomous zones for various indigenous tribes most likely