Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Thomas Sowell: Will America Collapse Like the Habsburg Empire? What Lessons Can We Learn?" video.

@chrissingletary2876 The reason is quite simple capitalism creates a wealthy ruling class that is in no mood to give up its national privilege. The bourgeois of the less developed want the business and markets of the more developed. In the end it is the working classes of all nations that pays the price for bourgeois nationalism like that of the Fascist Hamas or Fascist Germany or Italy. The theat doesn't come from the cultural revival but bourgeois privilege and bourgeois right. The rights of the exploiters to private property with the state and bureaucracy that go along with it. The cultural revival is an awakening in the masses of their own self worth and desires for revolutionary change.
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@chrissingletary2876 They don't have that problem in Cuba because they didn't allow a ruling elite to develop. The middle class becomes the servants of big capital as the system develops. You can't expect a tiger to trim its own claws. You can't reform capitalism because its not in the class interests of the capitalist. You have to crush their state power including the bureaucracy and recreate a new state just as the workers did in the Paris Commune, the early Soviet Union and revolutionary Cuba. If your theories were true capitalism would have not needed war to restart after the Great Depression. How many chances do you want to give them? The English merchants gave the monarchy two and then decided as long as the second King remained silent monarchy was the best form of government. Those who voted for the execution for King Charles had to go into exile or were killed after the King was defeated militarily for the second tim. The short lived English Republic was the form of government in between. Why do you want to keep a bunch idiots who chase profits around and use civil wars and revolutions to remove them when they don't listen? One of the charges against King Charles was that he was going about the country destroying it for the sake of taxes. Do you want to trust a bunch of idiots who go around the world waging wars for profits? Without a political revolution the Stalinist became a new capitalist class just as Trotsky had said would happen without a political revolution.
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