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The old world is dying, and alienation is increasing to levels even Marx would have been fascinated by.

So much of the apathy, sociopathy, psychopathy, and the ideologies that feed on that are, imo, driven by this alienation which the bourgeois class and its governments expend vast resources to redirect away from capital.

Fascism itself rose from the proto-socialist movements of Germany and Italy, where the contradictions of capitalism had spawned the material conditions for revolution BUT the historical conditions were such that the bourgeois class was more prepared for its arrival, and socialists unprepared for resistance. With that in mind, the modern bourgeois has sought to keep those conditions intact, or even oppose the very nature of historical materialism and its dialectic.

Neoliberalism declaring “history is over” was the bourgeois class attempting to draw the line in the sand - If revolution is attempted again, they would forever have the conditions to strangle it in its cradle. If revolution still progresses, fascism is always ready to play the role of enforcer until the bourgeois class can re-emerge victorious.

Of course, what neoliberals considered a stagnation or triumph over history was just the progression of history in another direction. With that comes the material conditions that were once considered stagnant again shifting beneath the surface. The bourgeois class is nonetheless prepared to use the conditions it handed itself to resist revolution, and we’re seeing that in rapid fashion.

It arranged the cards for revolution, and is now starting to play them, and in turn we see irrational and immaterial ideologies emerging with a suspicious echo from the past.

No, that’s exactly what it is, even if they are unconsciously aware. The contradictions within capitalism are causing NATO and the imperial core to implode. Identifying these contradictions and how to fix them would result in a leftist understanding, which the right is ideologically opposed to. But they still need answers, so instead of correctly blaming capitalism for problems, instead they blame Jews, LGBTQ+ people, women, liberals, leftists, ethnic minorities, the global south, etc.

When these answers given by the right end up not solving anything, they shift blame again. Repeat this enough times, you end up with conspiracy beliefs like QAnon, Pizzagate, flat earth, antivaxers, lizard people, antisemitism, FEMA camps, seeing “woke” everywhere, and so on.