Title says it all basically! I have an abstract understanding that heightening class conflict can be managed by creating scapegoats and enemies, but nothing exactly gels with e.g. Roe being overturned.
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“Imperialism strives for reaction everywhere” Lenin
On some level people are aware of their exploitation under capitalism which increases as the rate of exploitation increases. This awareness can be revolutionary, it can push people into struggle against their oppressors. However, this awareness can be hijacked by reactionary ideology and fascism which redirects struggle towards racial, ethnic, gender and sexual minorities.
Some analysis from Anuradha Ghandy in 'Fascism, Fundamentalism, and Patriarchy' (2001):
Imperialism faced with its worst ever crisis since the inter-war years is encouraging and promoting fundamentalist forces and fascist organisations and propaganda. And one of the central points of fundamentalist propaganda is a conservative ideology of gender – they proclaim the specific agenda of restoring the centrality of the family and home in the life of women and patriarchal control over her sexuality. Hence ideologues of the New Right even in the US are claiming that there is a moral crisis in American society and this is because of the fact that women are working outside the home. Though they have mobilised actively around opposition to abortion rights for women, they begin by arguing that welfare state expenditures have raised taxes and added to inflation, pulling the married woman into the labour force and thereby destroying the fabric of the patriarchal family and hence the moral order of society.
My main issue is justifying the claim in the paragraph after the Lenin quote.
My summary take, not really analysis but here it is anyway, is that it's because of heightening material conditional crises, precarious living conditions, and a population that by and large has been trained to never blame the ruling class, only the undesirables around them, for every grievance from not having job security to not having affordable rent to not getting laid.
The chapo guys, mostly Christman, have an interesting thesis that since mass politics died these guys can't really form a bloc. And the belief in bourgeois democracy is just dead, the only thing the state can do is provision pain - so increasingly, the only live political question is who do you wanna hurt, trans, poor, rural, MAGA, etc.
So when these guys get totally torqued (by a combo of the pain in their lives and their media aiming and sharpening their reaction towards the oppressed instead of the oppressors), they don't have like a red army faction to grab them or the friekorps, and the only political opinion they can express is wanting to hurt people - so they take it to the logical conclusion of individual mass shooting. Sometimes without targets in mind like the Las Vegas shooter (which was possibly just some fed op).
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"when capitalism does something bad, that's like... communism"