Obviously it's a process that is always brewing under capitalism but you know what I mean. Do you think we are close, like within 5 to 10 years close to a major declaration of war between the imperial core and the periphery or something of the sort? Would you argue it's already started?
I see Palestine liberating itself, I see solidarity with them along the people, I see the ripples that the Ukraine conflict has started, I see more and more revolutionary sentiment building. Could be an experience bias because now I'm more involved in real life so I see it more, but things just seem to be accelerating and I'm here for it. Much work needs to be done to capitalize and educate/funnel us all towards a progressive revolution and not a reactionary one, but I'm ready
We'll know by the end of the year. I'll spare you all the reports from my astrologer friends, but I'd say it's all going to hinge on the US elections this year, as well as the 50 other major elections worldwide. If the decrepit establishment of the US empire think that they could lose the election to a political outsider, I'd say we can expect a major false flag or a huge war to justify not surrendering their power. Probably against Iran but who knows.
These maniacs have it in their mind that they have to take all these nations down before 2030, when they reckon they'll be too weak to fight them.
Failing that, I think they'll fall back on their lessons from post-WWII. If enough nations are in ruins, then you can flood them with money, buy up all their companies, and have them utterly dependant on your exports. Hell, we can already see it happening with all these German companies and Taiwanese Semi-conductor industry.
I'm also thinking about Germany mulling madatory conscription, the constant headlines from European states that they need to get ready for another continental war. Isn'treal trying to start a major conflict with Hezbolla, Yemen and Iran, plus the constant Taiwan rattle-sabering.
My one hope is, in the universes consistent rule of irony, that the West with its already near total deindustrialisation and gig economy, that the beast is already far to decayed to pull any of this off. That and our rulers are dumber than a bag of rocks.
It’s called dialectics, the universality of contradiction. The accumulation of great masses of surplus capital leads to a crumbling economy.
I agree in general, but I’d like to add that WWII was a new lease on life for capitalism. It was pushed to the brink of its limits of capital accumulation culminating in the Great Depression. There was a great mass of surplus capital that hindered production. The wars destroyed that surplus by decimating European industry. This essentially set back capitalism to a time when the profit margins were higher due to high portions of variable capital. The US got lucky in this scenario as it’s capital remained in tact, so it was able to export and become rich of the new imperial vassals it exported to. Imperialism is the export of capital to places where the rate of profit is higher.
I won’t pretend I’m an expert, I just recently read ‘socialism or extinction.’
Oy vey. Well lets hope that wont happen again, but I doubt that the US is going to really be personally be affected by by any conflict it starts. Beyond all the dead poor people they throw into whatever meat grinder they get going.
Also I might have to give that book a read.
I wouldn't bet on the empire having a chance. The drive to war is only harming capitalism at this point, though also a lot of real people. Definitely read it.
U.S. Elections will be weird with this whole Trump ballot fiasco. Will he be banned on more ballots? Will he be written in? Will delegates and superdelegates even respect Write-in votes? Will Biden finally fucking die before the election? So many questions
He’s only being blocked in democrat states, so it won’t matter.
Idk, Colorado has always been a swing/Republican State, and that’s where this began. I admit that most of the other states are Dem, but still the question remains, will (super)delegates concede to write-ins? I’m not as big of a history-buff as I would like to be, but isn’t that unprecedented(actual question, not rhetorical)? Having a write-in candidate being a majority or at least a sizeable percentage of the vote? Seems like it isn’t a very stable system of governance if they don’t recognize write-in votes as legitimate when they expressly allow it
I want to know your astrologer friend, do they have a channel?
Fraid not, they're a swamp witch back home. But the Astrology Podcast can be okay. I just have to find some lefty astrologers online.
I would love to see more Marxist astrologist
I followed one in Twitter during the pandemic that's as amazing.
I would love to pick it up myself but I'm busy at the moment learning something else