Hey was there supposed to be a step *after* heightening the contradictions?
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@mcc I’m not sure but it is for sure one of my favorite Elvis Costello songs
@mcc unfortunately it seems the contradictions can remained heightened longer than we can stay solvent
@mcc i was operating under the assumption that, like
we know about heightening the contradictions, the phrase itself, because these people were just banging out political papers constantly and putting them anywhere they could
leftist theory sounds like that because it was supposed to happen in 1848. ultimately it didn't.
(some other leftists got lucky later on though. things happened. i don't recommend expanding those fronts anymore though, the chips act specifically prohibits it)
So far the only thing that results from heightening the contradictions seems to be the contradictions heightening even more
@mcc i can't even reach the contradictions standing to tiptoes any more.
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@mcc in theory you make people have to choose between you and an untenable situation before they can acclimate to it
in practice it turns out that when it comes to the time to make those choices, a lot of people will make the decision that lets you down
@mcc Karl Marx was the first to do the Step 1, Step 2, ???, Profit-Meme
@mcc Yes, but it was predicated on the idea that capital had a finite bound to the dislocation of its externalities. The status quo wasn't just supposed to be subjectively intolerable, but materially untenable. We were supposed to be faced with the choice to starve or fight. This has been reversed. The fight itself will take more discipline than the status quo requires, and by the time that is no longer true, there may be very little left to fight for.