<neoliberalism
any and all materialists must acknowledge that we exist in the neoliberal epoch, one unlike any other capitalist epoch. the biggest difference is that it has been intentionally manufactured to destroy class politics in everyway and it succeeded. via attacks on home ownership, community belonging, social atomisation, post fordism & gig economy, well fare it destroyed the ability for the left and even right to coherently organise and left them to embrace pseudo simulcra politics of liberalism (woke) vs conservatvism (nothing lol). in the third world where traditional manufacturing is still persued, an all ecompassing and brutal surveillance state made successful revolutionary politics impossible.
<death-agony, current and coming
but neoliberalism has entered its death agony stage. its contradictions (need to global elite agreement, invisible imports hard carrying western economies, ect) have caught up and the ideological, moralistic and pragmatic defences for the liberal international order and neoliberalism have already gone Dodo, all we wait for is the first piston in the globalist economy to collapse and this will cause a critical meltdown across the globe and with it the end of everything, the cathedral, human rights, capitalist realism, the spectacle and more. its impossible to tell when this will occur. i predicted it would be the coming right populist surge and then the mass dissillusionment which would follow, but the epstein files might cause it even sooner.
<Return of Vitality and Horror
with neoliberalism's death, we will see the Far right and left regain strength and energy, a true return to class politics. we will likely see a years of lead across the whole of eurasia, south americas and africa but not US or PRC. there will be far more riots, counter culture & demagogues arising from the formly 1dimenional workers. the 60s and interwar periods will be nothing the bumbling marches to the bloodshed to come and we shall see the earth be hurtled to utopia and despair one day after the next. total global meltdown. is your ideology prepared for the sudden influx of work? can you make one that can?
14 posts and 6 image replies omitted.>>2687350>I disagree that there is some new stage of neoliberalismi didnt say it was unless you count viewing the present, recent past & future as the twilight years of NeoL being tantamount to saying we're in a different phase. i believe we'll enter a new phase of capitalism and the true return of class politics. either way what you said isnt contrary to anything i believe or stated imo.
>>2687411>>2687452>prole has been absolutely brainfucked>You have to not just think that the masses are hopelessbro, remember our epoch, its impossible for them to be anything but at the moment. its why i empheize that we will see a great return of spirit when its ends for better and much worse. we will see many nostalgic for the saftey and conformity of the NeoL age
>>2687331>>2687339didnt state clearly in OP but imo its entirely possible the meltdown will be the next year or at least within the next 7 or such. no way NeoL limps to the 40s or even late 30s
>>2687082>with neoliberalism's death, we will see the Far right and left regain strength and energy, a true return to class politics.Oddly conservative prediction. You'd think there'd be something new and strange. May as well predict the return of monarchy like the tech-fedualist crowd.
>next stage
You're thinking with a stagest mindset and that's fundamentally flawed. History does not progress in stages.
>neoliberalism is unlike any other capitalist epoch
No. Its very much like the liberalism of the 19th century. Hence the 'neo' part. Sure, some things are different, but the bedrock of neoliberalism is a revival of classical liberal ideas from well over a century ago.
>critical meltdown across the globe and with it the end of everything
Neoliberalism is not in its death stage. Neoliberalism is a lot more fluid and flexible system for Marxist theory to adequately understand it. People have made claims about global collapse before, but that hasn't happened. They underestimated how flexible it is.
>will see the Far right and left regain strength and energy, a true return to class politics. we will likely see a years of lead across the whole of eurasia, south americas and africa but not US or PRC. there will be far more riots, counter culture & demagogues arising from the formly 1dimenional workers
With the internet and social media what we in fact see is a standardization of politics at the global level. Once there were competing political ideologies (communism, neoliberalism, Islamism) today they've all been streamlined into one current. Left and right are now just political identities, tribes or franchises that barely disagree in any meaningful way. People don't form politics on the basis of class identity, but cultural identity and idpol. Class struggle is redundant. The left is extremely reactionary and obsessed with restoring pre-neolib social democracy and the right are equally reactionary. Standardization of culture means that there is no real counterculture anymore. People play acting at it but nothing beyond that. I'd say that the explosion of jihadism in the 2000s was the last real counterculture to exist. People riot but they don't have any alternate vision. They riot to protect the system and just like jihadis, the existence of rioters entrenches the system by justifying further security and mass surveillance.
>>2687082The next phase of capitalism is so called "phase D" as described by engels in anti duhring. I suggest you read that.