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Ya Girl, Chimerelda E. Error
@chimerror.blacksky.app

Long, dry, very technical article that nonetheless makes a very cogent point that the reopening of US fascism has a lot to do with the _success_ of capitalism rather than the failure of it. But also of the inability of social democracy to fully attack that.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

"The growing mobility of capital increasingly allowed it to avoid making concessions that might have supported legitimation, while the marginalization of parties, elections...weakened the state’s capacity to secure popular consent for accumulation." nonsite.org/triumph-of-c...

nonsite.orgTriumph of Capital, Crisis of DemocracyWe argue that Trumpism arose from a political and social crisis generated by the success of accumulation. This crisis resulted not from the decline of capitalism or the exhaustion of accumulation b…

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