I keep saying the great sin of the 19th century was slavery and the great sin of the 20th was anticommunism (both labor issues, of course, but also both having an electric streak of white supremacy and exceptionalism), and the 21st century is them trying to reintroduce them both
It is because all the contradictions of the 70s remained unresolved and now we inherit those struggles at a hyperaccelerated rate It is a mistake to believe these struggles are new rather than played at a faster pace and on different fronts
Absolutely, I think there is a slight something-new-under-the-sun because the collapse of the Soviet Union legitimately took the only serious counterweight to imperialist capital off of the board and it kicked everything into hyperspeed, but then again, now we have China, just a different dynamic
They fucked up the Reconstruction that was supposed to fix the sins of slavery, and they're trying to fuck up the Reconstruction that would fix the sins of anticommunism before it even happens. That's what American fascism is all about
Either we win or all it all falls apart for good. It will be the last chaos.