Genuinely curious. I keep thinking “it can’t get much worse without some kind of mass uprising” but the ability of the general population of Western states to just soak up suffering seems endless. Do you think we will actually see mass movements in the next decade or two? Or just slowly lurch into a void of ever-shittier liberalism?
By the West I mean like. Western Europe and the Anglosphere I guess.
I think so. Saw some comments here and people are too focused on subjective factors, that are important but not the determination. If you look in a historical perspective, imperialism is undergoing a terminal crisis.
First, taliban, whos got some malnourished, poor and massacreted combatents, kicked the US out. Then, russia invaded ukraine, wich is the first time imperialism is attacked first since ww2 (maybe im wrong here), and the empire is losing. Then hamas striked israel, and they will not only defeat the zionists military, but this will also lead to the political collapse of israel. Then the french got kicked out of niger and coldnt do anything. Then iran spit in the face of israel, and they had to take it in silence.
Second, living conditions inside imperialist core is becoming “insuferable” (wich we call in third world countries “monday” or any other day). Inflation is up, ppl cant pay rent and food, nor heating where its needed, nobody has perspective of ever buying a home or even a car, homelessness is higher than snoop dog and rising, social wellfare is being eaten by austerity (or whatevers left of it), roads hospitals and schools are shit, or ultra expensive, criminality drugs and mental disease all on the rise. Fucking school shootings and trains derailing. This all happening in the heart of imperialism.
Third, the ruling classes are rotten. Local rulling classes all over the world are starting to dissent from the imperialist core rulling classes. They do it BC they smell the weakness, they are all rats, but they know their craft. The internal rulling classes inside the usa are starting to show contradictions, see the recent political divide between Trump and biden. If you compare Allen Dulles to Burns you will see how the quality has rotten over the years. Also, the best each side can produce is Trump and biden. This is miserable. The intelectuals they produce nowdays are laughtable. Jordan Peterson like wtf. This is how short their intelectual grasp has come. Dont be surprised if something happens in the elections, like Trump not being able to participate or even no elections at all.
Forth, the coming wars, as happened in ww1 and 2 before, will trigger revolutions. The tension in france was really high not long ago and i dont think they “kinda just forgot” about it. Imagine macron, another putrid maniac, sends troops to russia. Will the french ppl just sit and watch? The fascistic response imperialism is using world wide, and specially inside the usa, shows they feel that ppl are mobilizing. Hard censorship, violation of all kinds of laws and rights, policial violence, punishments for mass mobilization etc.
Wherever you look, imperialism is rotting alive. And it smells terrible.
But dont be naive, they will use all the violence and destruction they can before they fall. They rather destroy the world than live in it without rulling it