The technocrats are engineering a lose-lose situation for us, and it’s when we understand the extent of the crisis we’re facing that we can find the path out of it. There are reasons behind every aspect of the catastrophes our society is facing; by studying these driving factors, we can figure out how to mount an effective resistance against the forces which created our present conditions. This is how we make sense of the unemployment crisis, the decline in birth rates, the inflation crisis, and all other facets of the breakdown we’re experiencing: by tracing these developments back to their sources.
The central factor behind our civilizational collapse is finance, which is what forms the core foundation for capitalism in its monopoly era. Finance was what made the economy become terminally depressed in 2008, starting off a process of unraveling that’s now lasted almost a generation. When our ruling class used this breakdown to consolidate power, and then used the pandemic to accelerate the fascistic transition, it created the conditions for the engineered destruction that we’re now seeing unfold.
These events magnified a “great divergence” in opportunities, one that had already been in motion but has since become impossible for anyone to deny. We’ve reached a level of inequality where the bulk of those who’ve recently gone through college are unemployed, with this trend undergoing a very rapid rise in the last couple years alone. This is the outcome of a post-pandemic plan by bank executives to have the Fed tighten the job market through raised interest rates, making for a “low hiring, low firing” policy among employers that’s frozen the labor market.
It can’t be overstated how significant this is to the future of our societal stability, because it’s clear that these trends are not temporary moments which will go away in time. This is supposed to be an era where the economy has been in recovery, yet seemingly out of nowhere, a rapid job market collapse has been unfolding. It’s not from out of nowhere, though, it has a clear origin. It’s part of an effort to manage the breakdown of the United States, and make us transition into a police state that will ultimately take the form of degenerated warlordism. That is, if the masses don’t manage to build the counter-force which can throw off financial rule. And a critical part of this mission is to wage workers struggles which unite the different regions within America, making it so that as the urban and the rural are attacked in their own different ways, they come together to fight back.
Playing the urban and rural against each other, both culturally and economically, is a central part of this elite war against the masses. What they’ve done is create a vicious cycle, where the countryside gets left behind and the urban areas get superficially propped up. (It’s superficial because the cities have only been getting gentrified, while their internal poverty and inequality have continued growing.) They are creating a civilization where prosperity is only allowed to exist within the zones of the “creative class,” with everywhere else experiencing a slowdown that’s now reached seemingly terminal levels. Within this “creative class,” there is a political culture that looks down upon the rural, viewing its people as ignorant and backwards. This divide-and-conquer game involves creating a grotesque imbalance of power, where one side is conditioned to view the other as lesser.
Due to this imbalance, the young Americans who were born within rural areas are increasingly feeling a pressure to migrate to the cities. They’re seeing that they’ve been left with the least opportunities; and since wealthy boomers are the ones whose interests are aligned with the establishment, many of these younger rural people also feel they lack political representation. What this could easily lead to, and may have already led to in certain ways, is an equivalent scenario to that of south Korea’s birth rate crisis. Within U.S.-occupied Korea, the career incentives have been set up for people to live in the capital. And since the capital has been set up to optimize the ruling-class policy of enforced overwork, so many of those who are in the age range to have children find themselves unable to start families.
The bourgeoisie are shrinking people’s options throughout the rural areas, while trapping those within the metropolitan economic centers. The outcome is that south Korea has come to be on the path towards effectively going extinct, which is a fate that I believe America will only avoid due to the prevalence of its religious communities and their still-high birth rates. Outside those communities, around half of today’s young people are absolutely not on track to start families; which is something that the Malthusian depopulation enthusiasts love to see.
In the United States, we’re also seeing the elites set up traps for the masses after pressuring them to move into the metropolitan centers; except here, these traps involve a scheme to make the cities actually resemble prisons. They’re trying to engineer a scenario where the American people—mainly the younger and lower-income Americans who hold the most revolutionary potential—have become much easier to socially control. They want us to concentrate in the urban centers, where the state has by far the greatest policing and surveillance advantages, so that they can make techno-tyranny more effective. This is how the elites hope to neutralize rural America, which they view as a massive threat towards the future of capitalist rule. They see how populated rural America is, and how large it is; and their goal is to make the cities prevail, so the cities can then themselves be subdued.
Our class enemies are trying to turn America into south Korea or Japan—which are two of the countries with the greatest birth rate crises—so that America will fail to fully come together as a national project. This is the Malthusian, anti-human scheme we’re being subjected to, and it’s our task to fight back against it. We can’t expect the workers movement to end the birth rate crisis or reverse the “great divergence,” at least not until the workers have gained state power. What we can do right now, though, is construct organizational networks which are capable of giving the masses the tools for overthrowing the ruling class.
We’re seeing a great consciousness shift among both Gen Z, and also among the parents of Gen Z; this country’s working families are turning against “Israel,” against Ukraine, and against the other things our rulers want us to stay loyal to. They’re increasingly unified in opposition to our economic system, and this is what the centers of power are reacting to with all of their attacks against the masses. If communists keep aiding our communities, keep acting to lead the workers in their struggles, and also gain the means for defending against the state’s counterrevolutionary terror, we will thwart the enemy’s attempts at rendering us helpless. We have critical leverage in this power struggle, and we must use that leverage.
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