And the people said 'Amen'.
Liberalism doesn't seem like it's equipped to carry on this fight indefinitely though, so interesting times lie possibly ahead.
Now that it has reached this point, financial
isation having culminated in the 2007 crisis, with certain financial institutions re-hypothecating to the point where only 25% of their transactions even have asset backing, their flagrant bankruptcies are offset by their political ability to zero-out everyone else. That ability allows them to bust everyone else's assets and the price of their labour down into the floor, and then repeat the whole ridiculous process again after grabbing onto those zero'd assets in what is essentially a fire sale.
Where liberal and libertarian ideas serve to maintain this sickening and disastrous cycle, seems to be that they deny not only that the original
ancient expropriation* happened, but they are in the present era encouraging people to continue to consent to an
ongoing appropriation by continually instilling and repeating 'moral' lessons which attempt to denigrate, de-legitimise, or otherwise suppress any ideas that involve mass organisation by anyone other than finance.
This can be beaten, though.
So long as people look around and be vigilant and keep pointing out to other people the evidence of the
ancient and the
ongoing and how they are connected, and that this connection is indeed
objectively true, it can be possible for socialists, third position nationalists and ethnoregionalists, and any other anti-liberal movement to light a spark of resistance.
* Whether it is seen it as progressive, non-progressive, or could've-been-done-a-nicer-way, doesn't matter, although I prefer the third narrative, at the end of the day I just don't want people to deny that it actually occurred.________________________
These sparks I think are most easy to make when the guardians of the liberal-capitalist system are forced to reclaim something that they had previously placed far from consideration.
- Example one, the liberals say that it is not acceptable to bail out companies such as Cadbury's Chocolate or the train-making companies with public money 'because hur hur that - purportedly - ain't capitalism don'cha know, and we iz tryin'a be capitalist mkay'[!], but later on they are forced to bail out banks with the largest bail out in human history, while the rest of the sectors of the economy are told to go and suck a lemon and wait for the bail-out money to trickle down.
We bring the word: "Oh my dear angry middle class corner-shop-owning friend, why do these mysterious things happen at your expense? Let me tell you about how they lied, and about how this pain you feel now is the true nature of the liberal-capitalist system!" And so we have made a spark of resistance in that moment.
- Example two, liberals blow and toot on all sorts of racialised dog whistles for years, 'because you know hur hur - supposedly - its better if we stick to our own kind when we can mkay'[!], but later on they drown the country in a flood of immigration and find themselves masturbating over pictures of an African-American man named Herman Cain because he supports economic policies that they like.
We bring the word: "Oh my dear angry middle class secretary-girl friend, why do these infuriating things happen to ethnically-loyal people like you? Let me tell you about how they lied, and about how this pain you feel now is the true nature of the liberal-capitalist system!" And so another spark of resistance is created in that moment.
- Example three, liberals promised over and over again that in exchange for everyone's co-operation and peaceful agreement to support their economic prescriptions since 1970, they would maintain the justification for it, that justification being a nice spread of wealth created by capitalism-of-the-people, where your wallet is your vote, 'because they're never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you mkay[!]. Until now, since now they tell you that you are disgusting lazy layabout child-benefit-scrounging gutter filth who shouldn't even have access to the monkey bars in the cage of a zoo, much less that new refrigerator for your kitchen that you really need to have.
We bring the word: "Oh my dear angry working class factory-worker friend, why do these mortifying betrayals happen to gullible people like you? Let me tell you about how they lied, and about how this pain you feel now is the true nature of the liberal-capitalist system!" And so we have made yet another spark of resistance in that moment.
And so on. So take heart, don't be glum, and stay the course. Whether you be nationalist or socialist, the opportunities to strike a spark of light in people's lives are all around.
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