Seriously though, the USA is virtually always bad.

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    because it’s the end of capitalism that’s inevitable, not communism. we could also wind up with the common ruin of the contending classes and a dead world

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      Hmm. Okay, so capitalism will drive us to extinction unless stopped?

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        Not necessarily extinction, but certainly ruin. It’s already doing that with the climate crisis, but even if we could make that magically disappear today, the contradictions of capitalism lead only to a) the overthrow of capitalism and the capitalist class by the workers (socialism/communism) or b) the capitalist class resorts to ultraviolence to maintain its power and brings ruination to society (fascism)

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          You don’t think small appeasement of the masses is possible? I think the apparatus has gotten pretty good at giving just enough comfort that it’s too much work to shift the status quo.

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            It has been possible so far in the imperial core, owing to superprofits gained by exploiting the workers of other countries outside of the imperial core. However, the inherent contradictions of capitalism like the tendency of the rate of profit to fall mean that this can’t be sustained indefinitely, especially not once the third world shakes off the imperialists and refuses to be exploited any longer.