Chana [none/use name]

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  • Those are very early hints of what might develop in 20-30 years. Some of them are still hypothetical. And we haven’t seen any recognizable responses from capital, no big moves. Just following the business cycle, riding a bubble with a full blast of quantitative easing, funding explicit fascists a little more. The distribution and mechanisms of capital vs. labor will dictate the outcome and whether there can be any Balkanization. What could the West coast, say, actually do by itself? Will it create a parallel banking system? Stop paying taxes? These are much higher contradictions than feasible any time soon.

    And capital has many global levers to pull. With a modicum of discipline it could hollow out the US, it just needs alternative operation centers to keep the profit machine running, to guarantee the parents, the copyrights, the unequal exchange system of profit extraction - and whatever else it restrictively invents.

    To be clear I’m not being doomer, I just want to point out that these are very early stages of any larger events.


















  • For individual nations there isn’t much reason to boycott the UN. It just leaves a (minor) amount of power on the table and if it is a major country (on the security council) doing so it gives the imperialist bloc even more leeway, such as when the USSR boycotted the UN because theye excluded the PRC and this gave imperialists carte blanche to label their genocidal invasion of Korea a UN police action" as if it wasn’t a blatant violation of the UN charter and od course just evil in itself.

    An alternative would more reasonably emerge first, taking power with it, allowing the UN to wither. Obviously BRICS is not really much of a geopolitical body like the theoretical UN could be, but side structures like these could be turned into such things over time.

    I think all of this should be understood as an expression of power more than a powerful thing in and of itself. The UN is, in reality, more a form of empire-serving liberal PR, legitimation, and way to whitewash military presence. As empire itself is undermined, so too will be the UN.