“That’s how capitalism works”!!
Has he been scrolling r/antiwork and r/collapse, signing in at the Bear of Hex, keep a copy of the Communist Manifesto bedside?
Is this just a joke?
On a serious note, if it’s not, how far are the puppets in government prepared to go in what could be a cataclysmic moment of comeuppance for the Economic Terrorists of Wall St?
is this a signal that amerika is moving away from the neoliberalism of the past few decades? possibly indicating a fork where amerika descends further into fascism or shifts to a more post-war-Keynesian approach with more infrastructure spending and lower interest rates. that or they change nothing and we get a recession
This is the most boring outcome and therefore the most likely
Neoliberalism is dead or dying. This is the time period where new economic formations have to bubble to the surface. Everyone keeps talking about reshoring industry like we can return to Fordism but the rate of profit is too low to manage that social compact. Something new will have to happen and - fingers crossed - hopefully it doesn’t take another world war to get it settled
this is why it necessarily has to be a public project (whether by neoliberals, fascists, or a future socialist state). things are warming up, we can all sense it, and its unlikely the current gov will do much to ameliorate this oncoming recession. anything short of the Works Progress Administration and amerika is fucked. cant wait to witness the death of empire :inshallah:
ofc the elephant in the room in discussions like this is nuclear weapons. amerika is like a parasite that is so embedded that you cant kill it without killing the host. it will be difficult to negotiate the death of empire without a significant amount of nuclear attacks
Sometimes empires die slowly over time without being superseded by another hegemon. The retreat of Rome to the east left a slowly declining western empire that collapsed into the dark ages rather than crowning a clear successor. Nuclear armament may lock the US in as the final hegemon of the capitalist era as things collapse and sink back to a lower level of complexity. “The common ruin of the contending classes” is always an option
but China is the obvious successor. the businesses in amerika have so much IP that are restricted as internal documents, allowing that to be destroyed by collapse would be like a million libraries of Alexandria. China may be offering amerika structural loans in a decade :lenin-laugh:
also there are 150+ million workers in amerika who will be increasingly receptive to socialist concepts as conditions worsen
That’s the assumption that the dialectic of history has brought about a subject-object class in this moment of political economy that can finally end pre-history and usher in communism, but Marx failed to consider nukes and the glassing of the earth.
:shrug-outta-hecks: I know who I’m rooting for, but I also know I won’t live to see it. Let’s hope someone can amend the protracted people’s war for nuclear warfare. 20th Century forms of revolution will not be sufficient. The theory must catch up to the moment