Mee@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoOligarchy Has Arrived in America. Will We Confront It?inequality.orgexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1176arrow-down12
arrow-up1174arrow-down1external-linkOligarchy Has Arrived in America. Will We Confront It?inequality.orgMee@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareEmpireInDecay@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71·13 hours agoArrived? It’s been here for decades, the only difference is it now works in the forefront instead of behind the scenes.
minus-squaretoy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·13 hours agoreally though, who could have possibly seen this inevitability?
minus-squareClassStruggle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·12 hours agoAnyone paying attention. Leftists have been screaming about it for decades.
minus-squaretoy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-212 hours agoI’m old enough to remember Alex fucking Jones screaming about it… the “police state”, or whatever it was that he named a good five or six videos about.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 hours agoLiterally anyone paying attention?
minus-squareDarkCloud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·13 hours agoBeen there since the start, even before the 1920s/30s “Business Plot” there were Robber Barrons, Plantation Owners and Slavery.
minus-squareLeninOnAPrayer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoI’d say it’s been oligarchy to a degree since the inception of the US. The state has always served the interest of the rich capital owners. I think people are using “Oligarchy” to describe fascism. Fascism is simply capitalism in decline looking for a scapegoat for its failures and contradictions.
Arrived?
It’s been here for decades, the only difference is it now works in the forefront instead of behind the scenes.
really though, who could have possibly seen this inevitability?
Anyone paying attention. Leftists have been screaming about it for decades.
I’m old enough to remember Alex fucking Jones screaming about it… the “police state”, or whatever it was that he named a good five or six videos about.
Literally anyone paying attention?
Been there since the start, even before the 1920s/30s “Business Plot” there were Robber Barrons, Plantation Owners and Slavery.
I’d say it’s been oligarchy to a degree since the inception of the US. The state has always served the interest of the rich capital owners.
I think people are using “Oligarchy” to describe fascism.
Fascism is simply capitalism in decline looking for a scapegoat for its failures and contradictions.