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There is political crisis because the bourgeoisie is divided between those who wish to resume neoliberal globalization -change everything to keep everything the same— and paleo-conservative factions who want to return to a nation-based accumulation of capital, authoritarian rule, and warfare to secure the lion's share of the global spoils.
The split
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Patriotism
In Western discourse, it is claimed that democracy and liberal market capitalism are linked together as conjoined twins. However, liberal capitalism thrives when linked with fascism, as we have seen in Nazi Ger-many, Franco's Spain, and Pinoche's Chile.
If the development of liberal democracy is linked to something, then it is linked to colonialism.
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You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property... See more
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
“Their state of mind [IWW] could only be explained by referring to it, as was earlier suggested, to its major relationships” - Parker, The Casual Laborer, pp.103
Proudhon: What is Property?
youtube.comThe right to product is exclusive, the right to means is common. Everything is really only borrowed.
Fascism as its own ideal-type can be understood as a synthesis between the Jock-Douche and the Creep-Loser: a cult of sheer physical of strength and action wedded to a wounded and brooding consciousness of impotence and humiliation.