That’s what’s so “exciting” about the present moment. With Trump valuing blind loyalty above all else with his cabinet appointments, will he actually be able to make the bourgeois state dominant over individual bourgois interests? That is the ultimate goal of fascism, after all. They will elevate the dominance of the ruling class systemically, by overriding capital’s preferred methods of state control.

Rome maintained a centralized state over a very long period of time, in a fairly compact region (the Mediterranean and western Europe). The Mongols covered a lot of different, far-flung cultures that almost immediately went their separate ways after Genghis Khan’s death. Their influence is more comparable to Alexander the Great’s empire, where it briefly had incredible influence across the world but then each region developed separately.

I believe you mean the enhanced community fun time facilities

You can take some of mine comrade. We will see many flowers cut down but no one can stop the spring

It was a lot of people, don’t pretend it wasn’t genuinely multiracial. Had better organizing been in place it might have had revolutionary potential

I’ve been thinking the exact same thing, almost down to the year

I forgot how fucking entertaining Trump was as president. Horrible fascist policies, of course, but it makes for great TV

They started saying this in 2018, two years later we got the George Floyd protests. The Democratic party had to work HARD to coopt the surge left. And now people have even less faith in the Democratic party, and our organizational capacity is better (still small, but better)

Maybe I’m just too young but I’ve never seen the word “gossip” as gendered? Men definitely gossip

Naomi Klein is a good middle point, try the shock doctrine or this changes everything

It’s not “controlled” so much as both parties represent different factions of the same class interests

That sounds like something a fed would say

The downside here is that everyone left will be the most rabidly anti China meat heads you’ve ever seen

I don’t want to hear one more goddamn thing about Bolshevik party “groupthink” as an excuse for communism being bad. Clearly this is a feature of any political party involved in what it perceives to be existential struggle. The Republicans do it, the Democrats do it. A political party in panic will always do it

As it was written

Here’s the thing. Inflation is already “fixed”. The rate of inflation has gone way down, almost to the Fed’s target. But that is just the RATE of inflation. Prices aren’t coming down unless there’s a recession

Call them opposition parties, since both the Republicans and Democrats are effectively always “in government” as a coalition, with one being the junior partner depending on election performance.