Things are accelerating if we want them to or not. Multipolar capital is becoming a direct threat to American geopolitical hegemony and our entire domestic capital infrastructure is set up around that domination.
And it will always be harder on the poor, but thinking that cost of living crisises and material struggle aren't part of the radicalization process is not Marxist in theory. You can believe whatever you want though, this ain't a party. However, where the breaks will be are at the periphery of capital accumulation, as they have historically been. Depending on the state of industrial capital in the future here, the Midwest is far more likely to become radicalized in one way or another than the coasts, even if they have the larger organizations.
That being said, I've had to talk a couple self-proclaimed MLM and anarchist off the fucking off to the 'third-world' cliff, because not everyone is as lucky as Brace Belden. So, what is to be done? Well, keep your friends and family close and make sure you have what you need to survive what you can. Organize what you can but keep up your op-sec cause it's dangerous out there. The sad part is that even if war breaks out, you will still have to go to work, just ask the Ukrainians.
Make no mistake for my argument, our goal is not to accelerate, it is to survive the acceleration. It will be the third worlds job (where they have the military power), to actually properly build socialism. If socialism does survive (in the west), it will survive in the Midwest, just as if barbarism begins, it will begin in the Midwest, but barbarism is much more likely.
Collapse is not a good or bad thing, it just is a thing that is happening. That being said, while I do think it is 'bad' thing, I more think it is a 'funny' thing because it is entirely preventable by the powers that be with just abit of economic planning, but we are wholely structurally unable to address it because of how removed the ruling class is from actual labor. We have privatized our economy and specialized our tasks so much that ruling class doesn't even have to actually do anything anymore, nor even have the empathy to understand that anythng is wrong.
Things are accelerating if we want them to or not. Multipolar capital is becoming a direct threat to American geopolitical hegemony and our entire domestic capital infrastructure is set up around that domination.
And it will always be harder on the poor, but thinking that cost of living crisises and material struggle aren't part of the radicalization process is not Marxist in theory. You can believe whatever you want though, this ain't a party. However, where the breaks will be are at the periphery of capital accumulation, as they have historically been. Depending on the state of industrial capital in the future here, the Midwest is far more likely to become radicalized in one way or another than the coasts, even if they have the larger organizations.
That being said, I've had to talk a couple self-proclaimed MLM and anarchist off the fucking off to the 'third-world' cliff, because not everyone is as lucky as Brace Belden. So, what is to be done? Well, keep your friends and family close and make sure you have what you need to survive what you can. Organize what you can but keep up your op-sec cause it's dangerous out there. The sad part is that even if war breaks out, you will still have to go to work, just ask the Ukrainians.
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Make no mistake for my argument, our goal is not to accelerate, it is to survive the acceleration. It will be the third worlds job (where they have the military power), to actually properly build socialism. If socialism does survive (in the west), it will survive in the Midwest, just as if barbarism begins, it will begin in the Midwest, but barbarism is much more likely.
Collapse is not a good or bad thing, it just is a thing that is happening. That being said, while I do think it is 'bad' thing, I more think it is a 'funny' thing because it is entirely preventable by the powers that be with just abit of economic planning, but we are wholely structurally unable to address it because of how removed the ruling class is from actual labor. We have privatized our economy and specialized our tasks so much that ruling class doesn't even have to actually do anything anymore, nor even have the empathy to understand that anythng is wrong.