Due to inflation, energy crisis, worsening pay and conditions, increasingly authoritarian right wing govts, the impending collapse of the NHS, higher education entry criteria choking the number of graduates, etc.

I’m reasonably sure the final straw would be a currency crisis. A stable currency feels like imperial privilege.

Has anything been written on this? The characteristics of imperial core countries, I mean. I’d be interested to know if there are any examples of countries that have ceased to be core countries that have been analysed through a Marxist lense.

  • folaht@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    My take is that, as the US loses power projection and allies, it will double down on these anglo alliances based on ‘shared heritage’ and tie them to the sinking ship. Some might break off and survive as regional powers, but for now they exist to funnel money into the American project. I think after the European Union suffers enough abuse from conflicts with Russia, they will start to notice they’re not part of the ‘elite’ AUKUS club and will start to call for cultural/political independence from the US (“hey, what are all these yankee military bases doing here, anyway?” they’ll say as America’s military budget deflates). But given how their economies are tied, it will become something more like a client state where they begrudgingly depend on the US/UK for energy and AUS for mineral resources, esp as their neocolonies increase trade with China. When the memory of the Ukraine War starts fading, they’ll probably start buying Russian gas again, minus their American contracts.

    I’m waiting for Ukraine to fall to see people join my side, but for now they’re all going all in, even when they’re being told that they’re not part of their club.