once you get the ball of capitalist social relations rolling downhill, it can be hard to stop. it's a self-reinforcing system: steal peoples land, make them poor, tell them they can stop being poor by owning land so they go steal other people's land that aren't under the regime of private property and the state.

some day this will run out of steam. I hope.

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean when its moving fastest would be in fascism, no? The social relations of capital push harder and harder to a point where a state moves to consuming its own fragmentable populace, and then also pushes to expand it borders militarily to accomodate that civil society.

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dint know it transforms everything at its borders into a part of itself pretty damn quickly.

maybe the edge of capitalism is always fascist?

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

I think its always imperialist, given that its one class in a nation aggressing against another nation while in a fascist sense its all happening in one nation. when it cant expand itself and relieve its social tensions in directs those forces inward, cannibalizing itself.