Silver Needle

the lie that “capitalism is inevitable.”

It was inevitable in the development of class society, at least when we look at history. So that is not a lie. If capitalism is inevitable, what is there to be afraid of? Capitalism is the state of the world. Similarly I can say, “communism is inevitable”, which I adhere to.

To deepen this whole thing let’s consider capitalism as historically progressive from the standpoint of a 16th century someone. Capitalism was needed to create the worker and the worker as a class. Capitalism gave us Marx, Fourier, Lafargue, Kropotkin and all the others that knew or at least felt that the story doesn’t end with capitalism.

Heads of state of influential world superpowers absolutely have a disproportionate effect on the development of the world for decades and even generations after their time in office.

That is what it looks like. You don’t see the strategizers, funders and victims that enable these decisions.

If you can’t see that, then I guess you believe the world is purely deterministic and human choice doesn’t matter.

On a, well, deeper level I cannot refute determinism, but I don’t believe in it as a method of considering the world as I don’t know everything and everything needs to be known to be a successful determinist.

so then I guess you’re also a nihilist who says we shouldn’t vote

Yes, democracy as a principle does not create new structures within society but reproduces the status quo. I’d advise to look at how people actually push change forward. That happens simply by joining a cause or leaving it. No voting necessary. In addition to that there are quite a few absurdities in democracy, like letting people vote on who gets to be killed. Stalin was a democrat in that he sent goons to villages and then let the mob decide who gets sacrificed. Democracy is too despotic for my taste, it certainly fulfilled none of my needs as a prole. Please don’t call me a nihilist though, I am older than 16.

or fight for climate action or even resist fascism

Oh yes, let me resist a system like fully ramped up fascism that I have no avenue in fighting because there is no workers’ movement. Genius idea.

I guess we can’t hold anyone in power accountable for the results of their decisions, because that would be “great man/woman” fallacy, right

Sure. They could be reformed if they are forcibly proletarized, fully expropriated and such. At the same time I adhere to no particular moralism around this, if they are held to account as you say then that is something people ought to do with no expectation that one ought to join in.

That’s a part of the lie that “capitalism is inevitable.”

Incorrect. Capitalism was practically everywhere in the 70s when Neoliberalism came onto the scene. It was already there. Neoliberalism is a logical development within capitalism as capitalism reaches the highest possible productivity achievable with it.

There is nothing super special about Neoliberalism when you look at the way the world was before the new deal and Italian fascism.

but if we didn’t have Reagan or Thatcher

Great man/woman theory.

Neoliberalism would have come one way or the other. Doesn’t matter if Milton Friedman was a Jack Burner or a Jan Wouters.

You are incorrect on all points and I refuse to believe you actually live in Europe. You write like an alien who’s only had access to 4chan and /r/redscarepod

Germany is not like America. Everyone is entitled to generous social benefits.

This is patently false.

Merz is a fascist.

The whiplash of dreaming about resisting Americans in Europe and waking up to read this…

I never had the option to vote for something that fulfilled my needs even when I was promised that. Tell me again of the power of abstracting needs away into an average of the people. The only power I see in that is keeping more or less the same people at the steering wheel.

Denazification was a formal effort. It was never the spectacular purge people imagine it to have been, nor was it ever meant as such.

There are also civil and secular religions, so it still applies. Think about the way we fetishize democracy, long covid or mold exposure. Really interesting topic.

It is. It refers to things being held in special regard in social arrangements, to an religious extent. The autism discourse, with all the memes and such, does more often than not include a cult-like adherence to beliefs around certain behaviours that anyone could display, shifting focus away from the developmental aspects of autism which are very much real and to diagnostic markers that are less than well defined but are used in clinical settings like: trouble at work/school/kindergarten [Y/N], and certain things the hiveminds of the world latch onto. There I think of people regarding dislike of the “big” light as being an indicator for autism(???).

I love how autism has become this fetishized thing that you slap onto all people operating outside of expected parameters.