These events are the parts within one big crisis, the capitalist crisis. It’s the logical conclusion of an economic model that was made to function through perpetual growth. Should our society’s collapse advance enough, our government will start having to think in the same terms that countries undergoing famines or total war scenarios have historically had to: who should be allowed to access the limited supply of food, how to maintain order when a large fraction of society isn’t having its basic needs met, how to keep an economy running when keeping a “free market” model will inevitably make the situation untenable? It’s the latter two questions that our ruling class is already having to face.
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by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rainer’s Newsletter
February 21, 2023
The systemic breakdown that our socioeconomic system is creating has the potential to do more than worsen the suffering of the people. Capitalism has survived so long because it’s been able to exploit the crises it creates, to profit off of wars, depressions, pandemics, and environmental catastrophes. Yet in certain instances, these crises have instead produced victories for the working class. World War I made the Russian revolution possible, World War II made the Chinese revolution possible, the living standards crisis that the IMF engineered across the Global South made the formation of many anti-imperialist governments possible. When the capitalists disrupt society, they do so with the risk that the outcome will be not greater profits but an end to their rule.
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