“Broken America”: The Dangerous Endgame of US-led Capitalism

Abstract

The USA is a fragile oligarchy rotting from within. The profits of the leading capitalists are higher than ever—and the USA leads in mass poverty and disease, private and public debt and right wing politics. Industrial innovation and infrastructure are at an all-time low. The same applies, albeit not to such an extreme degree, to countries associated with the USA. These oligarchic regimes would continue in this vein including also genocidal practices if it weren’t for the growing multi-polar self-organization of the much larger “rest” of mankind, such as BRICS: hence the arms build-up against Russia, China, and resistance in the Global South, with the threat of world war looming. So how can cooperation be deepened, including non-state cooperation, through democratic and anti-capitalist movements in civil society?