it happened with the antitrust act, it happened with the New Deal, and it happened in the 1960s with the Civil Rights era and the end to Vietnam
The thing that ties all of these exceptions together is the immediate threat of ideologically organized revolutionary cadres mobilizing the masses into a socialist revolution
combat liberalism (derogatory)
You’re separating government from the capitalists and I don’t think that’s an accurate way of looking at the world. Capital will eat itself even more voraciously than it does right now without some mediating force on itself. Government isn’t a hedge against capitalism that mediates its excesses. It is a PART of capitalism that mediates its excesses. The anti-trust act wasn’t for us; it was for them.
But the reality that capitalism is a fundamentally unstable system can’t be fixed by blunting it. And as the rate of profit goes down, the very restraints that capital put on itself to ensure its survival must be destroyed in pursuit of that profit.
Let’s not forget that a large part of the inflation, and especially on food and housing, was driven by pure greed and opportunism from the capitalists that control those basic necessities. And that’s something that could have been prevented with tools that capital permitted under Ronald Fucking Reagan.
No, sorry, but you don’t get to say that four years later.
The economy got trashed in his last year… but remember how the sparse economic relief that were carried through the democratic congress got completely wiped out as soon as Biden took office? When the democrats took away the child tax credit childhood poverty doubled overnight. And you may say the cause of the inflation was Trump’s mismanagement (And it wasn’t. The supply chain breakdown would have happened no matter who was in office.) what was the democratic response? Fucking Chicago school.
What’s happening is the US empire is not so slowly rotting and material conditions are deteriorating. That’s independent of what party is in power. But both parties are wedded to capital. And voters are hopping from one foot to the other while standing on that hot skillet trying to find relief. You’re not going to find it without overthrowing capitalism. This is the barbarism we were warning you about.
If the US military was overwhelmingly in support of Trump Jan 6 would have gone completely differently.
Good! It’s a shame you were asleep the last four years!
Yeah well you can eat shit at the bottom of a pit, nazi. As the people around you flee to the countries they’re actually from. As your economy collapses. As your military dies of incompetence and cowardice. All you can do is have a tantrum online and try to reverse the framing of what is and isn’t genocide.
You’re a fucking loser and your fascist project is finally ending. I hope you go down with it. Nazi pig.
Without the conflict there would only be genocide.
The conflict is a good thing. Israel must be destroyed in order for peace to exist.
Death to all nazis and zionists. But I repeat myself.
People like you would have watched the Jews be exterminated in WW2.
Look how fucking stupid fascists are. “We should be allowed to commit genocide because what are you gonna do? Be against everyone else committing genocide??”
Truly subhuman.
The killing will end when the state of Israel ends. Israel exists to commit genocide. It was committing genocide long before Hezbollah or Hamas existed. Hezbollah and Hamas exists because Israel is a fascist, genocidal state. The world will be better when it’s gone.
Before they were attacked by Hamas
Before they were attacked by Hamas, they were in the process of committing genocide.
They deserved October 7. And they deserved to be attacked by Hezbollah for escalating that genocide.
Follow your leader, nazi scum.
GEE I WONDER WHAT ISRAEL WAS DOING BACK IN OCTOBER
Amazing fucking goalposts there. From “Well who started it??” to “Who cares who started it, that’s so long ago” in literally one comment.
Fuck these nazi ass fucking zionists.
What a child. Now quoting to you the meaning of a word is a ‘braindead argument’? Speaking of someone’s brain not working, your only arguments are to handwave with thought terminating cliches.
Well I don’t talk like that because I’m not an insufferable redditor. If I have a problem with something someone said I don’t make a smug meta comment about how I’m not going to engage despite engaging. I’m going to directly address the problem I have.
They’re socialist in who runs the country and how they run it
I don’t think a reasonable person can watch the difference in how they handled covid compared to truly capitalist countries and come away with this confusion. The capitalist class is not dominant in China.
China doesn’t call itself communist. It’s Socialist with Chinese characteristics.
I’m sorry your response indicates that my intent went over your head. You positioned someone telling you the literal definition of a word and then a historical example as an opinion. You’re being childish with your refusal to engage in honest conversation.
Not once it gets to that point. The release valve of elections is a hedge against this kind of thing happening in the first place.
Those movements were resolved by murdering their leaders and imprisoning their organizers for several decades.
I guess it’s best to say they do both at the same time