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The End of an Empire: Systemic Decay and the Economic Foundation of American Fascism — Hampton Institute By Colin Jenkins If you live in the United States and feel like everything is caving in around you, like you are being attacked and fleeced from every angle, like you can’t breathe, like you can’...

"Now, the US imperialist state must turn inward, and will call upon tactics that it has deployed throughout the world, especially in the Global South, to punish its own citizens."

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The last thing the US needs is more idle rich sitting around on yachts & golf courses all day while the rest of us labor away for them. But here we are. As Ajamu predicted, it only makes sense that these parasites would converge in a dying capitalist empire during its last stand.

Capitalism commodified the base (red), leaving us frantically scrambling from cradle to grave to secure these most basic needs by marketing/selling ourselves, often unsuccessfully. We are systematically stunted from reaching the other levels as a result.

Contrary to media reports, a significant portion of working-class Boomer wealth will not be handed down within families. The capitalist class has been preparing to intercept this for decades and has already begun doing so through both forced debt schemes and medical/elderly care.

Trump is looking to fill 375,000 deadend, minimum wage jobs just so more American workers can continue working our lives away with nothing to show for it while being incessantly mocked by Trump's privileged base, which notoriously claims that these "aren't meant to be real jobs."

One produces slave labor. The other produces debt slaves. Both are diabolical profit schemes under capitalism, but it looks like the former is winning out. Perfectly on brand with the capitalist hell hole known as America.

Capitalists have siphoned all of the wealth from society (our collective labor), leaving most of the population broke, and are now looking to replace a significant percentage of us with AI.

What comes next?

Based on their police budgets, they seem to think it's widespread unrest.

In a country like the United States - where corruption is rampant, racism is endemic, and money/power call all the shots - justice is far more likely to occur in the streets than it is in the courts.

Trump Terror, Complicit Local Leadership, and the Assault Against Southeast D.C. — Hampton Institute [PIctured: Trump’s Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller. Photo Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images] By Oliver Robinson On March 27, 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order establishin...

"Beneath this language lies a clear agenda: consolidate white power, criminalize poverty, and militarize public space."

Debunking the Myth of "Taxpayer Money": Economic Justice Starts with Monetary Reality — Hampton Institute By Clinton Alden Republished from the author’s substack . For decades, the ruling class has perpetuated one of the greatest economic deceptions of our time: the myth that federal gover...

"By convincing the public that federal spending is limited by taxes, the ruling class manufactures consent for austerity."

"Lazy" is a term capitalists use to describe anyone who (1) refuses to be exploited by them, or (2) refuses to join them in exploiting others.

A president with a net worth of $4.1 billion employing an education secretary with a net worth of $3.2 billion to confiscate wages and social security from poor and working-class people for education debt is the epitome of America.

At worst, Trump's orchestrating a controlled demolition so his class (capitalists) can consolidate even more wealth/power.

At best, Trump's restructuring the empire to reindustrialize alongside military/finance capital under the corporate state.

The people lose either way & everywhere in between.

In China, the government controls capital and makes it accountable to the people.

In the US, capital controls the government and runs roughshod over the people.

This is the reason why China has far surpassed the US in nearly every aspect of societal well-being.

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