“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?
Sometimes empires die slowly over time without being superseded by another hegemon.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