They apply in the sense that the Dems do not present any compelling opposition to the Repubs. Capitalism is in crisis, and you have on the one side, fascists, and on the other side neoliberals. As far as the neoliberals are concerned, there is no crisis. The fascists at least admit there are problems (they have all the wrong answers, obviously), but what solutions can neoliberals offer if they won’t even admit to the problems?
When they’re out of power. Then they get into power and they sound just like the fucking neoliberals, plus or minus some white nationalist spin.
And the neoliberals are happy to admit problems exist, but only so long as we concede the solution to the problem is more neoliberal Technocrats in charge. And if you don’t agree, then you’re a fascist, too!
Take a look at the Starmer government in the UK right now, and what we’re witnessing is Trumpian fascism and British neoliberalism jerking one another off.
Capitalism is in crisis
It is the crisis. So much of our modern nightmarish policies are third and forth order consequences of the Profit Motive. Everything from our ecological decimation to our brutalization of migrant workers to our paranoid surveillance state traces its roots back to the need to extract an ever growing investment return from assets with diminishing yield.
I mostly agree with you here, except the fascists in power double down on the rhetoric and really seem to enjoy the carnage that neolibs wring their hands over. I also agree that capitalism is the crisis, except there’s a crisis within a crisis now that empire is exhausting itself, and capital hollows out the core, which had previously benefited somewhat (aside from the ‘internal colonies’).
They apply in the sense that the Dems do not present any compelling opposition to the Repubs. Capitalism is in crisis, and you have on the one side, fascists, and on the other side neoliberals. As far as the neoliberals are concerned, there is no crisis. The fascists at least admit there are problems (they have all the wrong answers, obviously), but what solutions can neoliberals offer if they won’t even admit to the problems?
When they’re out of power. Then they get into power and they sound just like the fucking neoliberals, plus or minus some white nationalist spin.
And the neoliberals are happy to admit problems exist, but only so long as we concede the solution to the problem is more neoliberal Technocrats in charge. And if you don’t agree, then you’re a fascist, too!
Take a look at the Starmer government in the UK right now, and what we’re witnessing is Trumpian fascism and British neoliberalism jerking one another off.
It is the crisis. So much of our modern nightmarish policies are third and forth order consequences of the Profit Motive. Everything from our ecological decimation to our brutalization of migrant workers to our paranoid surveillance state traces its roots back to the need to extract an ever growing investment return from assets with diminishing yield.
I mostly agree with you here, except the fascists in power double down on the rhetoric and really seem to enjoy the carnage that neolibs wring their hands over. I also agree that capitalism is the crisis, except there’s a crisis within a crisis now that empire is exhausting itself, and capital hollows out the core, which had previously benefited somewhat (aside from the ‘internal colonies’).
Yes, they are certainly guilty of sticking their collective heads in the sand. Most but not all of them.