trying to wrap my head around why everything in the US is turned into a political battle--from the most trivial culture war stuff to major national crises such as the response to COVID-19. Is it a Gramscian thing where a ruling class in crisis is unable to maintain ideological hegemony?
International Finance capital is eating into the profits of domestic manufacturing capital and culture war is the only way for that segment of capital to fight back because it can’t challenge capitalism’s economic foundations without destroying itself.
that...actually makes a lot of sense. Is it fair to say that Trump represents manufacturing capital and the Dems represent finance capital?
matt goes into this on the vlogs, how goldwater was an avatar of small holders and petit bourgeois with domestic/nationalist concerns and how after decades that wing has finally taken over the GOP and the loser (internationalist finance capital) has taken over the dems
EDIT: good one he talks about it in is Vibes at Midnight starting around 10 minutes in
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thanks for the link! I'll check it out
Yup. That’s what matt christman has been saying