All the disease and sickness cannot just be excised like a tumor, it's too advanced, too widespread throughout the whole body, too deep in it's bones.
This isn't Stage 4 cancer, we've gone beyond that.
We're fuckin' Deadpool at this point: We ARE cancer.
I literally just got off the phone with my dad and said “our country does not have the solutions to deal with our problems.” From housing to a shortage of teachers in rural areas, the market and government does not have the tools to solve the variety of issues.
I’ve come to accept this country does not have a revolution in its DNA. Sure there will be discontent, mass protests, and more organizing but I’ve come to accept the reality revolution will never come to the imperial core. The best, we as leftists, can hope for is weakening the core of imperialism just enough to allow popular movements across the globe to flourish without us interfering.
It’s why I flipped on China. I’m admittedly not the biggest fan of China like most of this sub but their state capitalist system and government that actually plans out their policies in 5 year steps is blowing us out of the water. It’s been hilarious seeing the switch from “China is lying about their growth” to “China is going to eat our lunch”. We’re already seeing them take our place with the belt and road initiate and supplying the global south with excess vaccines. They’re already doing a better job than we have been.
Somebody pointed it out either here or in GenZedong, some resolution was passed on confronting the Belt and Road Initiative and without missing a beat, the very next day New York Times or some other MSM bullshit was posting articles about that instead of the Uighur thing. Like a switch being flipped. The government says they're concerned with one thing, our media starts dragging that. The government says they're concerned with something else now, and boom, like clockwork, the media pivots to that thing.
https://i.redd.it/j9kldvwq0ox61.png
Yes from a "China-neutral" meta-pilled position it's pretty much the funniest thing possible how they're about to be totally dominant, and there's probably no way to stop it from happening (unless there's a hot war 😧)
I'm looking forward to the next generation of economists doing their dissertations on how giving some people $3000 over the course of a year, where 600,000 people died from a preventable virus, destroyed applebees.
New research came out yesterday that suggests the real number is closer to 900,000.
Maybe one day, when the United States has lost hegemony and has balkanized, revolutions originating outside the imperial core can slowly inch their way into its corpse. I'm just sad I probably won't be around to see it. Even sadder the world might not be around to see it either depending on how badly climate change goes.
They sure weren't kidding when they said it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism!
Balkanization seems pretty unlikely. I could see some sort of ideological break up, where you've got two or more different states that each claim to be the legitimate successor to the US that have different ideologies, but that's historically been a pretty unstable situation without some form of massive military investment from outside powers.
It is very telling that so many nerds have developed fantasy scenarios about US balkanization.
Well, you never really know. If there was ever a collapse of the electrical grid or something shit would get crazy in the US real fast. It would probably turn into a militarized hellscape but possibly could be pockets of revolutionary activity
You need to eat a body. And you need to carry the plague. And you need to carry a plague around this whole world, that will change this whole fuckin world. And all your enemies will vomit black bile and will choke on blood and will grow boils and die. But only if you get together with your other RATS. And you come up with some kind of super plague, to fuckin end your enemies and...
End. This. Nightmare.
The sins of this land cannot be purged away but with blood.
like Marx and Lenin said, we cannot simply take the state and put our own leaders in the old positions, but the bourgeois state must be destroyed and rebuilt as a proletarian state from the ground up
Didn't Marx go through a period of genuine belief in reformism? (Yeah yeah I need to read Kapital)
In 25 years this country will just be a de facto military dictatorship run out of Fort Bragg
Thats awfully optimistic. If the US is still around in 25 years it'll be a military dictatorship run out of the Tacoma Amazon automated security procurement centre.
Amazon will become the Volskwagen to the U.S. military's American Reich
I try not to be this doomer most of the time but yeah
Hard to imagine a populace this propagandized and beaten down even caring enough to try improving anythingall those darn immigrants ruining our culture :grill-broke:
I don't see Marx's idea of 'radical rupture' as being inevitable either, along with the whole revolution bit. The idea was that the proletariat would discard the vestiges of its past, ie contradicting past human experience. It seems like new modes of thinking just reconstitute the past into working with the current frameworks of ideology, instead of progressing with a clean break. White guys get alienated, lose religion, but just go on 4chan and start deus vulting and waxing poetic about the Holy Roman Empire.
The revolution within the proletariat themselves is important before "THE REVOLUTION"
