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despite my marxist side, i don't see collapse---i see slow motion devolution of one configuration and the gradual re-emergence of a different one.
what seems clearer and clearer that the american position in the global economy is rapidly coming unravelled, but it isn't yet obvious what that means.
there is no coherent force from the left bringing pressure from outside the system to push it in a direction that is not already implicit in the operation of capitalism itself. and if the shit really hits the fan in the states, it is still the case that any such move would probably come from the right. but i don't see that happening either at this point---the right is marginalised (in that its discourse appeals only to itself) and internally fractured. so if you look around, the likely tracking forward of this debacle is still well within the framework of capitalism.
but the situation that the united states has occupied is coming unravelled.
and if things move in a straight line from here, that unravelling could be ugly indeed.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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