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Not sure if it's quite what you're looking for but I'd recommend Prisoners of the American Dream by Mike Davis. Written in the 80s but it provides a good overview of why the American working class developed differently than the working classes of Europe and elsewhere. Don't have a pdf unfortunately but I'd imagine someone here has a copy.

>>7516
>Prisoners of the American Dream

This looks great thanks. And it's on libgen. I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for either, but this definitely hits the spot if you have further suggestions like this I'd welcome them.

Noted speaker, writer, and journalist Caleb Maupin has a fantastic book on exactly this subject, as well as the future. It's called City Builders and Vandals in Our Age and can be purchased full price from anywhere good books are sold!

>>7516
This. Mike Davis is great.

Also read some Mark Fisher.

You can also try Dynamite by Louis Adamic, written in the 30s, but really encapsules the American condition and through a lense of an immigrant to America.

>>7535
also link to Dynamite

https://libcom.org/files/Dynamite-Louis-Adamic_0.pdf

>>7523
End of the Myth by Greg Grandin is also something worth looking into. His thesis is basically that America has always relied on "frontiers" as a safety valve to evade social and class conflict. It was there from America's inception, starting with the westward expansion to fulfill the Jeffersonian concept of a nation of independent yeoman farmers, to imperial conquest, and eventually to more abstract notions like economic expansion and globalization. All of this was, of course, based on a system of genocidal and imperial violence. Now, between failed wars and economic collapse, the frontier is finally closed, which has given rise to a new kind of reactionary nationalism and domestic polarization.

>>7971
It is the same for any empire. Rome had to constantly expand and when it stoppe, shit hit the fan. USA had to constantly expand, first through the North American continent and later by imperialist and neo-impearialist means through the world.

>>8053
>Rome had to constantly expand and when it stoppe, shit hit the fan
Nope, quite the opposite. Roma met its doom because it overstretched the potential of its slave-based economy while american capitalism actually needs to open a new frontier to survive

>>8103
>american capitalism actually needs to open a new frontier to survive
Is that why they're chomping at the bit to start WW3? watching the US destroy China while simultaneously pumping up the rate of profit would be too big of a blackpill for me