Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and journalists. We got their messages.
Yes but crucially I think there were a lot more smart nazis than there are today. The fascist movements across europe had festered for many decades and they had organised and organised and organised, very much in the open and without being taboo.
Yes, that makes sense. I think in general, socialists and other progressive elements have learned from their past mistakes while reactionaries have gotten worse. Zionism then and now is an illustrative comparison. Labor Zionism was completely insidious to the point of even fooling Stalin while modern Kahanists think bioengineering a red heifer will bring about the Messiah.
It does not escape my amusement that we’re talking about smart nazis and imperial fascists (the neoliberals) as also smart… But in the context of the past they’re dumb as shit.
I think the strongest illustration of this has been how we got to watch Kissinger get shunned for being pragmatic and coherent about the Ukraine war and situation with China.
Part of the reason these people are doing badly and have also not really organised very well at all is that they have no competence and shun one another much too hard for not following this dogma or that dogma.
I think a problem that exists for empires once they become large enough is that when you become the makers of reality your leadership can’t keep up with the pace of change when that is no longer true. They are still trying to bend reality, to make and invent it. They had the power to do so before, they could just make it so. They still try to but it doesn’t work anymore and those that have tried to point this out have been cast aside as they fruitlessly try to make-reality even harder.
This blinds them to the need to accept and follow the changing material conditions.
Yes, that makes sense. I think in general, socialists and other progressive elements have learned from their past mistakes while reactionaries have gotten worse. Zionism then and now is an illustrative comparison. Labor Zionism was completely insidious to the point of even fooling Stalin while modern Kahanists think bioengineering a red heifer will bring about the Messiah.
It does not escape my amusement that we’re talking about smart nazis and imperial fascists (the neoliberals) as also smart… But in the context of the past they’re dumb as shit.
I think the strongest illustration of this has been how we got to watch Kissinger get shunned for being pragmatic and coherent about the Ukraine war and situation with China.
Part of the reason these people are doing badly and have also not really organised very well at all is that they have no competence and shun one another much too hard for not following this dogma or that dogma.
I think a problem that exists for empires once they become large enough is that when you become the makers of reality your leadership can’t keep up with the pace of change when that is no longer true. They are still trying to bend reality, to make and invent it. They had the power to do so before, they could just make it so. They still try to but it doesn’t work anymore and those that have tried to point this out have been cast aside as they fruitlessly try to make-reality even harder.
This blinds them to the need to accept and follow the changing material conditions.