Honestly they didn’t live in the type of functional surveillance states that we live in. More than just technologies and techniques which have vastly improved as well as coordination the ability to hunt down enemies of the state there’s also the fact the states they were in were not as shall we say functional or solid as ours. They were weakened states in some internal disarray.
For this reason I think unfortunately revolution is pretty much hopeless and impossible in the imperial core until external conditions such as the collapse of imperialism and the US dollars and an overall weakening of the US state takes place and weaken these systems of surveillance and control and oppression. Until that happens, until they start rotting, things no longer working and not being repaired for weeks type of situation they’re just too strong. That or we’d need way more than the 10-20% of society that usually sides with a revolution, like 50% and at least 30% willing to take violent and coordinated action and I don’t see that in the US near-term so I think rot is the more likely to come and weaken and blind them and eventually in that decay room for things happening is found.
I might be high on copiun but I think the level of imperialist infighting we’re currently seeing might be a product of the weakening of imperial hegemony. The rate of profit of imperial extraction no longer provides sufficient growth to stave off bigger and bigger crises more and more often, which is why the bourgeoisie of the metropole has become so shamelessly exploitative even if everyone can see it’s killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
The political momentum that this horrible genocidal structure gained is so huge that even very influential capitalists like Buffet and Soros can’t pull enough political capital to halt, much less reverse. They’ve been talking about Keynesian measures for god knows how long and yet the big steamroller keeps chugging along.
I think revolution is no longer hopeless, it’s looking inevitable. Hardly a week goes by without some shit happening that would have sparked a wave of riots a decade ago.
Honestly they didn’t live in the type of functional surveillance states that we live in. More than just technologies and techniques which have vastly improved as well as coordination the ability to hunt down enemies of the state there’s also the fact the states they were in were not as shall we say functional or solid as ours. They were weakened states in some internal disarray.
For this reason I think unfortunately revolution is pretty much hopeless and impossible in the imperial core until external conditions such as the collapse of imperialism and the US dollars and an overall weakening of the US state takes place and weaken these systems of surveillance and control and oppression. Until that happens, until they start rotting, things no longer working and not being repaired for weeks type of situation they’re just too strong. That or we’d need way more than the 10-20% of society that usually sides with a revolution, like 50% and at least 30% willing to take violent and coordinated action and I don’t see that in the US near-term so I think rot is the more likely to come and weaken and blind them and eventually in that decay room for things happening is found.
I might be high on copiun but I think the level of imperialist infighting we’re currently seeing might be a product of the weakening of imperial hegemony. The rate of profit of imperial extraction no longer provides sufficient growth to stave off bigger and bigger crises more and more often, which is why the bourgeoisie of the metropole has become so shamelessly exploitative even if everyone can see it’s killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
The political momentum that this horrible genocidal structure gained is so huge that even very influential capitalists like Buffet and Soros can’t pull enough political capital to halt, much less reverse. They’ve been talking about Keynesian measures for god knows how long and yet the big steamroller keeps chugging along.
I think revolution is no longer hopeless, it’s looking inevitable. Hardly a week goes by without some shit happening that would have sparked a wave of riots a decade ago.