only I am allowed to throw my diarrhea at you - if you throw your diarrhea at me, you are being ridiculous
Actually regarding that, this is good news!
you have defied the will of the market
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What I was trying to explain was that "Trump is a moron who can't manage the empire" is not a sufficient explanation of these events. That is liberal great man theory and as Marxists we must look to materialist explanations.
No, it isn't. It would be liberal great man theory if I said Trump rose through great force of will to wrest control of the yoke of history and then fucked it all up when he got there. Great man theory is not the odea that the decisions of political leaders matter, but that they are the basis from which history flows. Trump os exactly the opposite of that. Fascism (or fascism-like) self-destructive policies are the inevitable result of the material forces that drive capitalism, and Trump simply imparts a particular flavor to an imperial collapse that began long before he entered the scene and which will have an impact far beyond the role of his specific choices in accelerating it. If Kamala had won, she'd only stave this off for a few years - the US was already on the decline as the hegemon, it was already second fiddle to China, and BRICS was already laying the groundwork for a new world order. No president could have been elected under these conditions that could shift things by more than a few degrees. We just happened to get the stupidest, most brutish option.
Frankly not relevant here. What OP is looking for is a secret explanation of capitalist brilliance that makes the obvious, open capitalist stupidity an actually brilliant plan. That's not how it works. OP's assertion, at least for the premise of this thread, is that Trump's obviously destructive actions are actually the result of behind the scenes manipulation whose scope and scheme we cannot possibly ascertain beyond conspiratorial speculation. What we're actually witnessing is capitalist self-consumption.
They do it open too
Yeah that's my point. You see what they do and why because they tell you.
Of course, but the real oligarchs who back their regime aren't real morons.
These are the people who thought they would defeat China by investing in it - or worse, their children. The Dulles brothers are long gone.
The financial class that really runs this country hasn't stopped his trade wars, hasn't stopped his dismantling of soft power like USAID, hasn't disciplined him with a capital strike/flight. This means to me, they are willing to go in on the strategy.
What mechanism would they use to stop him if they wanted to? Where does their cabal meet and who takes their secret orders?
We need to get away from this idealist conspiratorial thinking. The capitalist class is fractious and divided, and the power of the capitalist state, including its elected officials, is very real. It's shocking to see a bunch of Marxists all talking to each other about the secret hidden forces pulling the strings from the shadows in order to justify doomerism. How many times in history have we seen myopic, inbred, hubristic ruling classes bring about the destruction of their own power? I'll answer: every single time an empire fell.
Exactly as any Marxist-Leninist could tell you, divisions in ruling classes are inevitable as personal ambition and ideology begin to fester in calcified strictures. The further temporally removed from the foundations of those structures, the less the ruling class understands how they truly operate without some internal correction mechanism (like a Marxist party). The short-term self interest that is the engine of capitalist development and innovation abhors nurturing and developing systems like that.
I mean, just apply your mode of thinking to the billion other ways capitalism consumes itself and it become clear there's no one directing the ship besides the idiot who seized the wheel in the last election. Why hasn't the financial capitalist class withdrawn from China, even though investment there has been building its own destroyer? Why haven't they addressed climate change, which will obliterate the material basis of the economic system and crumble their power structures? Why don't they build cheap, efficient livable cities instead of costly, crumbling car-dependent suburbs? Over and over, the capitalist class consistently turns away from the obviously correct long term decision for their own survival and profits because some dipshit from Texas can make a quick buck. We have seen them destroy their own support systems, put in place by their predecessors, because they were too ignorant to understand they actually depend on those things.
Capitalism is defined by the internal contradictions it is unable to resolve. It's not capable, as a system, of solving the problems it creates. It can only find a new way to profit off of them, and it's always less profit for a shorter time. Always! That is why the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is Marx's most important contribution.
What capitalism produces above all else are its own gravediggers. We have known this would happen for two hundred years. It has happened before and it will happen again.
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For PSL, we usually read Basic Principles of Party Organization during recruitment. Highly recommend it.
A more recent piece from the CPI(M) in 2010 is good for discussing the criticisms of democratic centralism and the reason why it's still the best method: https://cpim.org/wp-content/uploads/old/marxist/201001-Democratic-Centralism-Prakash.pdf