Oligarchs don't know how to stop themselves or when enough is enough. The world today is looking very much like the world in the decades before World War I, which toppled half the dynasties and governments of Europe, was the beginning of the end of Europe's four century rulership of the world, and ushered communism onto the world stage.This time, though, the whole West could lost its preeminence in the world, since after World War II (direct consequence of WWI), the USA took over the mantle of world rulership. If the whole West falls into a giant conflict internationally and internally, then Western global preeminence may end. Or, Europe and the USA could split, then one goes down in flames from inability to halt its worst tendencies while the other survives as the West's rump and may be able to rebuild itself into a world power in the coming centuries.>In addition, last year the administration stripped 370,000 federal workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of collective bargaining rights.>The assault on federal workers is part of a wider rampage against the working class. In January 2026, US companies announced more than 108,000 layoffs—the highest total for the start of a year since the Great Recession. Over the course of 2025, more than 1.2 million layoffs were announced, the highest level since the pandemic year of 2020.https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/07/dxdj-f07.html
federal employees are not the working class you faggot tranny. they are the parasite class that only rob the tax payer
>>528004288Evidently you missed the statements, right above your comment, about the huge private layoffs lately.
>>528005245What's happening now is an all out assault on the working class by an oligarchy feeling its oats, with Trump as their ringleader and leading the charge, even for that section of the oligarchy that plugs their nose at the thought of Trump but who are very pleased with his anti-labor actions, which are far vaster than just cutting federal employees.And among the federal employees, Trump has especially targeted the Department of Veterans Affairs, ending most of their collective bargaining rights. It's pretty dumb of the oligarchs, and in hindsight could be a glaring blunder, to go after veterans. The Roman emperors were counseled to take care of their soldiers first and foremost, as they were the primary source of imperial power. Perhaps today's elites have become so shortsighted in their appetite for gain that they've overlooked this ancient lesson.
Will soviet fashion have a comeback?
Nobody is becoming a communist faggot
>>528003505>Government and business fucking with your life?>Make them the same entity, that'll fix it!
>>528005671I am utterly opposed to the state and business being intertwined. For the sake of freedom, I counsel people to emigrate to poor countries, which lack the means for intricate social control and generally do not care what people do so long as they aren't threatening the state.
>>528005553Right and left are turning collectivist, and while the left wants some kind of socialism like always, the right, too, at the popular level, is economically leftist, demanding "nationalism" by which they mean a return to community and some level of decent life for ordinary people, which is a leftist position in economics. Economic rightists are pro-corporate and pro-globalization, since whatever is good for markets and commerce is their concern. Personally, I'd take the wildness of unfettered capitalism, even if it means ordinary people live in the kind of chaos of an Indian city in the 1990s, over some revival of economic rights for the public that has, as the tradeoff, the surrender of other liberties. My fear is we are on the road to strong collectivism and even totalitarianism of one flavor or other due to mismanagement of the world situation and domestic affairs by elites who cannot figure out when to stop nickel and diming everywhere, which is driving people to collectivist ideologies that they hope can stop it.
>>528005445I like their greatcoats, many of which are remarkably similar in style and features to the iconic Third Reich greatcoat with the French cuffs, back half-belt, and big lapels. Though in fact it was the Third Reich copying the Bolsheviks in the adoption of the leather greatcoats of this style, and then the National Socialists made the style iconic.
>>528006329>Personally, I'd take the wildness of unfettered capitalism, even if it means ordinary people live in the kind of chaos of an Indian city in the 1990s, over some revival of economic rights for the public that has, as the tradeoff, the surrender of other liberties.I think young people today, flocking to collectivist ideologies, will regret, or else their descendants will regret, the return to authoritarianism that may be the elites' price for granting relief from economic strangulation.Like how so many liberty minded folks of recent generations have despised the New Deal, where the government even seized people's personal gold stashes and instituted the draft, and undertook many other authoritarian policies and expected social obedience, in return for popular relief from the Great Depression. Pic is the iconic Third Reich greatcoat, very similar to the Soviet ones down to basic details.
>>528006329>Personally, I'd take the wildness of unfettered capitalism, even if it means ordinary people live in the kind of chaos of an Indian city in the 1990s, over some revival of economic rights for the public that has, as the tradeoff, the surrender of other liberties.Sam Adams got it exactly right. It is foolish to trade liberty, which is so rare in world history, for economic relief that will be taken away in two generations anyway, while the new authoritarianism remains in place.It is better to be free and poor than a slave with a house and car.
