/lit/ - Literature

>>19612116
>Second, isn't the intensifying opposition between the actual reality of the proletariat (alienation and wage-slavery) and its ideal reality (bourgeois freedom) supposed to function with some degree of mechanical inevitability if it's the real process underlying history and discovered by dialectics? Why didn't it happen then?
The Great Depression was solved by the massive devaluation of capital in WWII, the increased efficiency of fixed capital for wartime production, and the massive appropriation of wealth from Europe and the third world by the United States. The crisis of capitalism in the 70s was solved by creating the world market and financializing the first world economies as parasites and labor aristocrats. Neither of these solutions actually solved the problem, but simply expanded the geographic area of capitalism and increased the power of crisis. If it took the most deadly war in history to solve the Great Depression, how can we possibly solve today's crisis which touches the entire globe and cannot devalue itself in the age of nuclear weapons? Even the most severe Keysnianism cannot touch today's crisis, the massive amount of surplus value that would be required to bring exchange value back into balance with value most likely doesn't even exist on the earth anymore.

Basically, after all the class struggles since Marx was born and even before then, which have gone back and forth and seemed to be in a down period until a few years ago, it's tough to stick to the fundamental contradictions of capitalism as the determinant force in history, but it is also necessary. As for the concept of democracy, it's a mostly nonsensical concept, and the western definition which you are using is complete nonsense. American elections and European elections represent the people about as much as Saddam Hussein getting 99% of the vote every election.

It's very hard to remove oneself from history and look objectively at the world. But it's clear that the contradictions of capitalism, which can never resolve themselves and can only be displaced over an even larger field, never went anywhere. The proletariat is larger than ever, the exploitation of humanity is increasing at a more rapid rate than ever in both the third world and in the first, and the earth is running out of places for the primitive accumulation of capital and the localization of crisis. In fact, the earth is simply running out of resources, and capitalism will be dead within the next 100 years whether it takes along most human life or not.

>>18946581
Your guys swept from victory to victory and you're still seething while trying to sound menacing. Go get the commies! Go get 'em! This regime you're living in and which is traveling along a downward spiral like Nine Inch Nails is what your guys created. The really blackpilled reactionaries at least have an ethos that isn't acting like a dumb idiot.

https://youtu.be/hhvza-_2ox8