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When will the United States experience full collapse conditions? Let's fuck around and cook up some half-decent predictions (hexbear.net)

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Anything goes, give me your wackiest predictions and theories

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Lenin:

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

Marx:

“Mankind thus inevitably sets itself only such tasks as it is able to solve, since closer examination will always show that the problem itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or at least in the course of formation.”

Evolution of society happens like evolution of species. Nothing happens for a long time, until suddenly something does happen. Only one thing is certain, that change doesn’t happen until and unless the conditions are ripe for change. But the conditions do not in themselves precipitate change, they are only a precondition.

The difficult thing is that one can argue the conditions for a total collapse in the US are already here, and that all is needed is the spark. But it could also be that we are missing some essential condition, like maybe the US Dollar has to be dismantled from international trade, or the US has to lose its access to nukes. We can’t know, we can only interpret events in hindsight, even with our dialectics and our science.