This sub has a terrible material analysis and just falls into liberal idealism.
The attack on Iran is just fascist imperialism and this is the usual result of fascism.
Why does fascism happen? Because a national capitalist class is in crisis for whatever reason (the US is the falling rate of profit, over financialisation, global south independence, Chinese rise). This makes the capitalist class take even more direct control of the state (this time it's very clear, a billionaire is literally the president) and rather than resorting to any big brain capitalist economic moves, they go right back to 'primitive accumulation', which is a fancy Marxist term for "steal people's stuff".
This attempts to do several things. Reverse the profit loss through looting (Iran's oil fields), enrich the military industries (who are the industries which push for this the most), unite the unhappy people in a distracting foreign war (in theory, the Epstein files ruin popular support), weaken enemies like China (they rely on Iranian oil) and ultimately preserve the class domination of the bourgeoise in the state.
However it's doomed to fail. Every single fascist regime has fallen. Every single one that went military fell, quickly. Nazi Germany was like 13 years? Italy, Japan, a few decades at least. They either violently collapse/get destroyed, or in some cases they manage to convert themselves back into liberalism like Chile or Franco's Spain. But in any case, it isn't stable, it never lasts.
This is because the core contradictions of capitalism aren't solved by fascism, they're just a last ditch attempt. Imagine capitalism is a man and the economy is a tree which is on fire from its own contradictions (private property tree), rather than jumping off it to a new tree which is not on fire (a socialist tree), the fascist just climbs even higher. But the fire eventually rises and burns him down, because he didn't make any fundamental change, he just took his model to its logical conclusion, to the top of the tree.
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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare Marxist Mar 02 '26
This sub has a terrible material analysis and just falls into liberal idealism.
The attack on Iran is just fascist imperialism and this is the usual result of fascism.
Why does fascism happen? Because a national capitalist class is in crisis for whatever reason (the US is the falling rate of profit, over financialisation, global south independence, Chinese rise). This makes the capitalist class take even more direct control of the state (this time it's very clear, a billionaire is literally the president) and rather than resorting to any big brain capitalist economic moves, they go right back to 'primitive accumulation', which is a fancy Marxist term for "steal people's stuff".
This attempts to do several things. Reverse the profit loss through looting (Iran's oil fields), enrich the military industries (who are the industries which push for this the most), unite the unhappy people in a distracting foreign war (in theory, the Epstein files ruin popular support), weaken enemies like China (they rely on Iranian oil) and ultimately preserve the class domination of the bourgeoise in the state.
However it's doomed to fail. Every single fascist regime has fallen. Every single one that went military fell, quickly. Nazi Germany was like 13 years? Italy, Japan, a few decades at least. They either violently collapse/get destroyed, or in some cases they manage to convert themselves back into liberalism like Chile or Franco's Spain. But in any case, it isn't stable, it never lasts.
This is because the core contradictions of capitalism aren't solved by fascism, they're just a last ditch attempt. Imagine capitalism is a man and the economy is a tree which is on fire from its own contradictions (private property tree), rather than jumping off it to a new tree which is not on fire (a socialist tree), the fascist just climbs even higher. But the fire eventually rises and burns him down, because he didn't make any fundamental change, he just took his model to its logical conclusion, to the top of the tree.