eh I'd argue that there's a real conflict between national/extractive and international/financial capital right now that has both economic and cultural elements. It's all part of Small Capital vs Big Capital, which are genuinely two factions with competing interests atm
I feel like what we see the most up front is by and large the cultural element of this clash. In America economic interests are rarely ever brought up politically as people accept the default ideology and let the corporations do their thing.
I think the interesting question is why exactly do they diverge culturally, and what significance does that hold.
You can only make sense of it that way if you look at it from the macroscopic level. Our lumpen bourgeoisie is basically constitutionally incapable of acting for the benefit of the ruling class as a whole at this point in time because they're all focused on their own narrow personal interests, prisoners of their own ideology
right, thats what I thought too. Yet its not like they have conflicting interests, rather different roles to play in the empire.
eh I'd argue that there's a real conflict between national/extractive and international/financial capital right now that has both economic and cultural elements. It's all part of Small Capital vs Big Capital, which are genuinely two factions with competing interests atm
I feel like what we see the most up front is by and large the cultural element of this clash. In America economic interests are rarely ever brought up politically as people accept the default ideology and let the corporations do their thing.
I think the interesting question is why exactly do they diverge culturally, and what significance does that hold.
You can only make sense of it that way if you look at it from the macroscopic level. Our lumpen bourgeoisie is basically constitutionally incapable of acting for the benefit of the ruling class as a whole at this point in time because they're all focused on their own narrow personal interests, prisoners of their own ideology