Neoliberal capitalism has accelerated final stage capitalism where growth necessarily means cutting labor costs. Under the constraints of today, the way to do that is really through automation because paying workers less is becoming untenable. There are still lower wage populations to exploit but it's becoming politically difficult to maintain a system in which jobs are exported but the consumers are domestic. The consumers need capital to buy the products to keep the system moving.
So then workers have to be paid more and the workers domestically are relegated to service industry, restaurants, fulfillment centers, etc. Not everybody can be in middle management or higher on the corporate ladder. Credit was always one way around that, but even then, credit's getting tapped out.
So we have a lot of disposable people who do not fit into the labor market but yet we still need people to buy things. So we raise wages, we stimulate the economy with aid packages, we build more weapon systems, but all of that causes things like inflation. So now you have people who can afford things like housing and those who can'[t (thus the growing homeless problem--these are systemic problems--ten years ago, there weren't huge homeless camps living under bridges in my home town).
So we have a contradiction between the need for capital to grow and the need to have a domestic market in which people can afford costly products. And that problem just continues to accelerate. Overseas labor is getting tapped as their conditions improve and their costs go up (China can control that better being a totalitarian country).
All of that runs smack into democracy. People want more health care (Trump even promised a beautiful health care program paid for by the government), they want the government to do something about jobs (but isn't the economic sector supposed to be in private hands?), raise minimum wage, etc, etc. All of which affects capital's ability to grow. So to thwart those demands, our attention is turned to hoaxes: liberals eating kids and drinking their blood, teaching critical race theory (do you mean the history of slavery--we shouldn't teach that?), abortion (I am old enough to remember when conservatives didn't care about abortion and it was the Catholic Democrats who did).
So the response from capital will always be authoritarianism. And if you think siding with capital will be good for you, think again. This Trump movement is all about "freedom" and "liberty," but it will be all of our freedoms that will be taken away. Look at the models they want to emulate, like Tucker Carlson going to Hungary. People have far fewer freedoms in Hungary than we do, yet Carlson hailed it as a great system, better than ours. Why would he do that? Look at Russia where the opposition parties are outlawed and the main leaders imprisoned (even poisoned and assassinated.
What are our options in the face of this? It isn't backing Trump, he is on the side of capital. He is dividing and conquering us--we, the people. All of them are (except maybe Bernie). Republican and Democrat. They are all taking money and following the desires of corporate elites. So what are your solutions to all this?
So I agree with most of what you are saying, except the CRT.
I was taught about slavery and the system that perpetuated it in my public school (grad 1984). We should teach the UGLY truth about everything. I am sure if the ugly truth had been taught about a lot of history, we might not be in the situation we are in currently. History is immutable, it should be expressed and taught without personal interpretation of the details.
The CRT I have read, is mostly about putting people in their place based on the past. That is not okay.
Gonna have to say we need a sound financial system to fight corruption.
Several of the Theories that make up the whole of CRT regard how Liberal elites try to regard blacks as needing 'our' help, needing some kind of help. When it's not help that another culture/race/belief needs. We all need Liberals to start seeing the corruption from the state that represses, marginalizes and disenfranchises the poor. Liberal-Statist like tough-on-crime laws that affect minorities the most. Especially when you have white cops patrolling a mostly affluent neighborhood they don't live in, so they don't understand the issues therein, and just see the urban-war disparity.
CRT is roughly 7 different theories that one man assembled, and I don't remember his name right now. The two that are the most offensive to a category of people, are the summations regarding Liberal-elitism subtle racism, along with Democrats and Republicans, still keep repression intertwined into the system. Because it works for their power base and access.
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Where would Russia be today without Alexander Pushkin. Where would fractional-reserve-banking be today if not for Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi.
I have already drilled holes in all the life boats. No-one is getting out of this.
Here's the problem:
The jig is up.
Neoliberal capitalism has accelerated final stage capitalism where growth necessarily means cutting labor costs. Under the constraints of today, the way to do that is really through automation because paying workers less is becoming untenable. There are still lower wage populations to exploit but it's becoming politically difficult to maintain a system in which jobs are exported but the consumers are domestic. The consumers need capital to buy the products to keep the system moving.
So then workers have to be paid more and the workers domestically are relegated to service industry, restaurants, fulfillment centers, etc. Not everybody can be in middle management or higher on the corporate ladder. Credit was always one way around that, but even then, credit's getting tapped out.
So we have a lot of disposable people who do not fit into the labor market but yet we still need people to buy things. So we raise wages, we stimulate the economy with aid packages, we build more weapon systems, but all of that causes things like inflation. So now you have people who can afford things like housing and those who can'[t (thus the growing homeless problem--these are systemic problems--ten years ago, there weren't huge homeless camps living under bridges in my home town).
So we have a contradiction between the need for capital to grow and the need to have a domestic market in which people can afford costly products. And that problem just continues to accelerate. Overseas labor is getting tapped as their conditions improve and their costs go up (China can control that better being a totalitarian country).
All of that runs smack into democracy. People want more health care (Trump even promised a beautiful health care program paid for by the government), they want the government to do something about jobs (but isn't the economic sector supposed to be in private hands?), raise minimum wage, etc, etc. All of which affects capital's ability to grow. So to thwart those demands, our attention is turned to hoaxes: liberals eating kids and drinking their blood, teaching critical race theory (do you mean the history of slavery--we shouldn't teach that?), abortion (I am old enough to remember when conservatives didn't care about abortion and it was the Catholic Democrats who did).
So the response from capital will always be authoritarianism. And if you think siding with capital will be good for you, think again. This Trump movement is all about "freedom" and "liberty," but it will be all of our freedoms that will be taken away. Look at the models they want to emulate, like Tucker Carlson going to Hungary. People have far fewer freedoms in Hungary than we do, yet Carlson hailed it as a great system, better than ours. Why would he do that? Look at Russia where the opposition parties are outlawed and the main leaders imprisoned (even poisoned and assassinated.
What are our options in the face of this? It isn't backing Trump, he is on the side of capital. He is dividing and conquering us--we, the people. All of them are (except maybe Bernie). Republican and Democrat. They are all taking money and following the desires of corporate elites. So what are your solutions to all this?
Spotted the Catholic
So I agree with most of what you are saying, except the CRT.
I was taught about slavery and the system that perpetuated it in my public school (grad 1984). We should teach the UGLY truth about everything. I am sure if the ugly truth had been taught about a lot of history, we might not be in the situation we are in currently. History is immutable, it should be expressed and taught without personal interpretation of the details.
The CRT I have read, is mostly about putting people in their place based on the past. That is not okay.
Gonna have to say we need a sound financial system to fight corruption.
Several of the Theories that make up the whole of CRT regard how Liberal elites try to regard blacks as needing 'our' help, needing some kind of help. When it's not help that another culture/race/belief needs. We all need Liberals to start seeing the corruption from the state that represses, marginalizes and disenfranchises the poor. Liberal-Statist like tough-on-crime laws that affect minorities the most. Especially when you have white cops patrolling a mostly affluent neighborhood they don't live in, so they don't understand the issues therein, and just see the urban-war disparity.
CRT is roughly 7 different theories that one man assembled, and I don't remember his name right now. The two that are the most offensive to a category of people, are the summations regarding Liberal-elitism subtle racism, along with Democrats and Republicans, still keep repression intertwined into the system. Because it works for their power base and access.
...
Where would Russia be today without Alexander Pushkin. Where would fractional-reserve-banking be today if not for Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi.