Second American Civil War General

No but a militia could take control of some silos somewhere in Montana, and once the first bomb drops, the rest fall.

Ive considered writing a utopian-noir novella about the US collapsing following the eruption of Yellowstone and China and Russia de facto puppeting many remainders, with some of the Chinese controlled regions taking the communist propaganda and Redbux better than their Beijing handlers expected and actually forming successful city-wide communes without Chinese style corporate characteristics, specifically in the mid-atlantic and south, with a protracted peoples war raging still in Appalachia. Utopian element isnt that everything is perfect but that almost everything is much, much better, and there's a sort of pleasant irony seeing the Federated Communes of the Mid-Atlantic squabble over small ideological differences like whether or not the Liberty Bell should have its image recuperated, meanwhile the workers do really control their workplaces and everyone has enough of whatever they need while rebuilding their neighborhoods, cities, and towns. The noir conflict comes from a string of rape-murders meant to constructively challenge the idea that true, effective communism will stamp out human evil for good.

Because global famines, and hundreds of millions of people dying is Utopian.

It's a couple generations after that occurs and it's socialist-utopian in its themes, and also some major world shaking event is necessary to explain the rapid decline of the US without getting bogged down in loredump framing geopolitics that are besides the point. Star Trek is certainly utopian and in its history there's a full on nuclear holocaust and 2 eugenics wars.

Yellowstone isn’t erupting anytime soon unless someone “detonates” it on purpose.
Though this is off topic i’ve always wondered if there would be a way to stop the ash clouds from btfoing all of earth, what if we all point fans towards the volcano?

Why? Not trying to shit on your volcano parade, but you could alternatively make some subtle/vague references to political turmoil in the U.S., a la a new American civil war/return to isolationism, etc.
Yellowstone isn't necessarily a bad idea, I just think there's some potential for more interesting narratives regarding the fall of the premier superpower of the last decades than simply "a supervolcano blew up".

Cheers for actually planning to write a novella, though. It's beyond what I'd bother doing myself.

I considered that and I'm not necessarily set on this route, and since it's just background framing it'll stay subject to change. My worry was that a big event would undermine the idea of revolution truly being an act by the workers for the workers, but I'm leaning towards supervolcano because it is such a handwave and US political turmoil leading to independent leftist governance would either seem very implausible given our current situation in the US, or require so much background explanation that it would defeat the purpose which is meant to be a believable portrait of a functioning communist society, potential blemishes and all, with the point being that those inevitable blemishes don't undermine the fact that things are genuinely much better.

So

And as far as global background that might just be as much depth as I want

I'm sure, but it's a handwave plot device for speculative fiction so I'm not too concerned about that

Bad phrasing here on my part, wouldn't defeat the purpose at all but would be out of the scope of what I'm trying to do which is something relatively short and focused.

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