- cross-posted to:
- neoliberal
- politics
- cross-posted to:
- neoliberal
- politics
Put plainly, Israel is aligning itself with an authoritarian wave sweeping Europe to legitimise its policies of genocidal warfare and democratic erosion, while Europe’s far right increasingly becomes normalised and mainstream.
A part of me thinks the rise of extreme nationalism is fueled by climate change. We’re already seeing issues with access to clean drinking water around the world. Hell, in 2025, Mexico wasn’t able to honor their end of the water trade treaty with the US for the first time since the treaty was created in the 1940s, which helped the nazis in charge here justify refusing to send water to Mexico. https://www.ecoticias.com/en/usa-denies-mexico-water-1944-treaty/12590/
It’s only going to get worse. Resources are drying up, and when countries face issues supplying clean water and food, they tend to gravitate towards barbarism and tribalism. In my opinion, this is just the tip of the iceberg, unfortunately.
It is, in the sense that the only way to mitigate climate change will destroy the income streams of the fossil-fuel companies and countries that rely on fossil-fuel exports. And, in order to prevent their rice bowl from being broken, they fund anti-environmentalist fake scientists and anti-scientific political parties that all lie about climate change and try to fuck with renewables in any way they can.
Another possibility is the Economic supercycle which has a period of around a century, in which we are now at or near the low-point (basically the maximum inequality point when growth - not just Economic but actually as a progression of quality of life - is at a minimum whilst non-productive rentierism is at a maximum).
It makes sense that the people with the most power - which in Capitalism are the moneyed classes - at this point would be investing heavilly in political forces which blame outsider for the pain and loss of faith in the future that most people are feeling, in order to avoid being punished by the public for their misuse of power for maximum self-enrichement which is causing the hurt on everybody else.
This shit isn’t just Economic, but also Social and the elites managing the last part would explain all manner of things done in the last decade or two, from the rise of the Far-Right to increasing political corruption and authoritarianism (starting with widespread civil society surveillance, which is now increasing, as well as increasing cracking down on demonstration) in supposedly Democratic nations.
The cycle theory is not science. If there were such cycles, investors would place their bets in a way that would make money from them, which in turn would damp the cycles.
We do have a massive problem with inequality, driven by unchecked owning class macro-parasitism. Or, if you prefer, rentierism.
Yeah, those are two faces of the same coin.
It’s fueled by the pedofile parasite class reestablishing their parasitic capitalist system