He’s dogwhistling, and doing a pretty good job of it

In Marx it’s gravitational, supply and demand are part of large cohort of turbulent regulators, constantly undershooting and overshooting each other while achieving turbulent equalization of profit rates, but NEVER sustained equilibrium like liberal economics asserts

The “gravitational bodies” that supply and demand “orbit” are the leading regulating capitals in any given sector, who are leading because they establish the lowest unit cost-price of production that other firms “gravitate” around…“Wal-Mart in a small town” being a common textbook example

Liberal economics doesn’t believe regulating capitals exist and that supply and demand orbit each other in a perfect eclipse and if they don’t it’s because the government and workers are “cheating”

Most science production in the US is geared toward instruments of death, computerized financialization and funneling money to administrators

By scattering American brain power across the world, true scientific research can blossom in the most unexpected places, to say nothing of the advantage China will hold in the future

99% of the time accelerationist developments are a net negative, but this is definitely a 1% exception, a brainless empire is a dead empire

Is this the real Turkish Communist party or the fake one started by Attaturk? I can’t remember which are which

Well I thought 9/11 was a scary movie about a smoke monster eating people, so definitely 2003

Btw this is what I mean when I say that the United States barely counts as part of the imperial core

Western Europe is the imperial core. The average Western European materially benefits from the spoils of imperialism and lives a high quality life because of it. The average American is an exploited colonial subject.

The United States is still a colony, the European Empires just consolidated and moved their headquarters to the colony

lmao you don’t know how to infer, in the first sentence they’re talking about Internal Colonialism Theory and the history of US settler colonialism in general; in the second they’re talking about US ELITES and their settler heritage, what exactly do you think words like “consolidated" and "moved their headquarters” is referring to? Davos? Could it possibly be a fuckin reference to US colonial history?

What did you say in an earlier comment, you think they’re talking about “Belgians” you dumb fuck lmao? About European citizens controlling America? Like another commenter told you “BE FOR REAL”, that’s why you’re obtuse and most likely a troll…definitely a wrecker

Also you didn’t know anything about Internal Colonialism Theory, or it’s relationship to Settlers, and you didn’t comment when I corrected you on it

You had nothing to say about Differential Segregation theory, so obviously you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about, so kick rocks troll, I gave you a half dozen good faith replies and all I got back was “baaah you think Belgians rule America ha ha”

American isn’t an exploited colonial subject of belgian overlords

It’s been explained to you multiple times that wasn’t the original commenters point, and yet you keep responding with escalating caricatures and bad faith interpretations of other Hexbear’s arguments

You’re a troll or you’re a dumbass who can’t read or infer, but I’m putting my money on troll

I’m sure that worked well on reddit

There it is again, that obtuseness, that brain-dead caricaturization, 3 month old account huh?

What, did you think coming in here spouting half-baked simulacra of anti-Americanism while mentioning (not quoting) Settlers was gonna be decent camouflage to troll the lefties? Nice try

You have the obtuseness of a wrecker troll and you’re a 3 month old account, hmmmmm

Welfare states are absolutely a sign of imperial coredom, for the simple fact their continued existence implies a lack of western bombs and coup attempts, operate your analysis historically not mechanically

if France had a sudden economic crash but retained its colonial extraction it wouldn’t cease to be t he imperial core.

Nobody said that, you seem to be fighting with phantoms in your head

this is just you saying “Some Americans are poor so they’re not part of the first world”

Nobody said they didn’t live in the first world, your hyper-moralizing is blinding you to obvious FACTS; are Native Americans not colonialized huh? Are black people not subjected to a militarized police state and systematic state depossession? Are Appalachian hollers not toxic wastelands disconnected from centralized power and resources

Stop playing punisher in your head and analyze the real conditions, an empire can indeed eat itself alive

Again, nobody said that

The original commenter wasn’t implying Western Europe is the principal agent of exploitation within the United States, you’re being uncharitable

They were simply pointing out the conditions of Western Europe do not resemble the colonialized local conditions of many parts of the United States, that’s true, because unlike the United States social democracy was allowed to flourish and the spoils of empire were more easily distributed then in the US

The United States is still a colony, the European Empires just consolidated and moved their headquarters to the colony.

I mean come on, do you seriously think op believes British elites moved their London mansions and castles to the US and secretly rule DC in favor of the secret North American British Empire?

NO, obviously op was talking about the WASP elite of the United States, who do in fact rule this country through a mechanism of internal colonialism

You can simplify the theory to the point of caricature all you like, doesn’t change it’s explanatory power

Just what do you think “internal” is referring to? The theory is focused on HOW US elites interact with the country they rule, which is in a colonial fashion, lessons learned from overseas replicated and adapted to subdue working class demographics within the United States, particularly Black people who represented the most radical edge of the working class and as a hyper-exploitable class of people

The theory is a Marxist derived formulation to explain both HOW and WHY the white working class and black elites protect the system that destroys themselves and the people who they should have a natural solidarity with; that through-line led directly to the development of the sub theory of Differential Segregation which, is a far more accurate description of HOW labor aristocracy actually works in the United States, that also does away with the false binary of either race or class determination

Settlers is literally a doomer reformulation of Internal Colonialism Theory LMAO STOP GOOFING

Incorrect, uneven development is the later liberal version of the idea, but the original theory is older, emerging as an expansion of Kwame Nkrumah’s Neo-Colonialism theory from 1965

It’s complimentary to most versions of Third Worldism and neo-Colonial theory and in fact forms the bedrock on most developments of those tendencies

Internal Colonialism Theory posits the US is internally colonized by US elites through a historically continuous process of demographic management and settler-corporate consolidation, thereby creating a political culture of anti-solidarity between working class demos who fall under either “managed” or “colonialized” brackets depending on their class and racial position

So obviously not something that can be confused with the right-wing wrecker stupidity of LaRouchism

A subset of Internal Colonialism Theory that explains the dual nature of the US is called Differential Segregation, an adapted internalized version of the same strategy used in colonial and neocolonial client states overseas

The deliberate creation of comprador classes within every US demographic, income and zip code based for minority groups and the country club/urban-rural divide among white Americans

Differential Segregation is the de facto social organizing principle of US society, it’s obvious in a kind of “You see it only when you notice it” way

One of the telltale signs that a leftist has matured in their analysis of imperialism is their introduction to ‘Internal Colonialism Theory’

Even more impressive if that leftist comes to those conclusions without ever encountering Robert Blauner