Post AFauw0babsbJ0DbflI by Arkana@bunny.cafe
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(DIR) Post #AFaqWmgUpZ4eltcOY4 by cqi@poa.st
2022-01-19T09:02:28.927918Z
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How do those who use the term know that Late Stage Capitalism is in its late stages? Mightn't there be more?
(DIR) Post #AFas23oFJIQkoaik0e by Aether@poa.st
2022-01-19T09:19:20.301889Z
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This is a disturbing thought
(DIR) Post #AFasxvw6jye7BzzgP2 by cqi@poa.st
2022-01-19T09:29:47.261632Z
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That’s why the “late” and “stage” are there in the first place. (“Capitalism”, too, if you want to recklessly take the analysis all the way.)
(DIR) Post #AFatZdLmI6mgYMygN6 by Aether@poa.st
2022-01-19T09:36:36.401430Z
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Strictly speaking capitalism is just an economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society.Calling out system of social organisation capitalism is a crime against the language. Marxists theorised this but everything about Marxism has been disproven.What we are in is post-liberalism. the theory that communism would follow liberalism has been disproven by history. That was obvious from the Russian experience in the early 20's, but James Burnham eviscerated the notion in his book The Managerial Revolution in 1940.
(DIR) Post #AFathyECYGurcaPQq8 by cqi@poa.st
2022-01-19T09:38:07.070441Z
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What happened to the disturbing thought?
(DIR) Post #AFatnUexOpWpebYd1c by Jens_Rasmussen@poa.st
2022-01-19T09:39:07.006526Z
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It's a cope assuming that proletarian revolution is close at hand.Pretty much every cyberpunk sci-fi story shows that it can theoretically get worse.
(DIR) Post #AFatxUPpA5ohnDFIW0 by Aether@poa.st
2022-01-19T09:40:55.379954Z
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The general feeling on Poast is that we are in the early stages of collapse and we just need to wait it out.Truth is that we are not. This system will become more and more dystopian over time, but it will not collapse any time soon left to its own devices. It will get more and more worse as time goes on unless radical reform is undertaken
(DIR) Post #AFautflr6Jejo4IK8G by Arkana@bunny.cafe
2022-01-19T09:51:25.330218Z
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@Aether @cqi Thuletide goes over this and I generally agree with his thoughts.
(DIR) Post #AFauw0babsbJ0DbflI by Arkana@bunny.cafe
2022-01-19T09:51:51.567134Z
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@Aether @cqi Thuletide goes over this and I generally agree with his thoughts.https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/on-accelerationism-why-praying-for-the-collapse-is-an-escapist-fantasy/
(DIR) Post #AFavCJE98rZDOHPj5E by Aether@poa.st
2022-01-19T09:54:48.395589Z
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Collapsatarianism is based on Christian Dispensationalist thought. In the same vein people who promote it should try and find the shire to live with hobbits.It is just an excuse to do nothing
(DIR) Post #AFb9ofZ1wPlP1tMsJk by Christ_is_Lord@poa.st
2022-01-19T12:38:36.113923Z
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@Aether @Arkana @cqi As bad as things are it’s still entirely possible for people to find online and irl communities with their buddies, find a wife, and live a fairly comfortable life within the system. LARPing as someone who’s creating a lifeboat community is a great way of rationalising being in the safe boat as everyone.It’s a really weird place to be in psychologically where you hold views and beliefs that should get you hung and fired but you’re living a normal dude life. Gotta square that circle somehow
(DIR) Post #AFbrDNY6LyvEQRxiqW by blackmore@distrotoot.com
2022-01-19T19:48:00Z
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@Aether @cqi @ThatWouldBeTelling Capitalism is just a word created to paint a perfectly natural thing as something bad or weird, similarly to how the term ‘cisgender’ is often used.