How transnational capital abandoned the American project and began constructing a post-national techno-feudal order.
© The Dialectics of Destruction
The American people are living through a
historical rupture that most still struggle to name.
Every day the signs intensify.
Infrastructure decays while billionaires launch vanity rockets into orbit. Entire generations drown in debt while financial markets soar to artificial highs disconnected from material reality. Housing becomes unattainable, healthcare becomes predatory, education becomes indentured servitude, and political discourse collapses into theatrical spectacle devoid of substance. Meanwhile the ruling class insists that this is somehow "the strongest economy in history."
The contradiction is impossible to hide now.What millions are beginning to sense — often instinctively before theoretically — is that the United States no longer functions as a
national project designed to develop society. It functions as an
extraction mechanism. The state increasingly resembles a hollowed shell whose primary purpose is the
transfer of wealth upward into the hands of finance capital, technological monopolies, and transnational oligarchic networks.
This is why the political system appears simultaneously absurd, chaotic, and strangely deliberate. It is not merely incompetence. It is not simply corruption. It is the visible expression of a
dying imperial model colliding with the limits of historical development itself.
Comment: Is Kagan then counselling graceful acknowledgement of the situation and a U.S. withdrawal from an unwinnable fight?
NO.
His prescribed solution is to double-down with a ground invasion of Iran. The Alexes explain, and give the often (deliberately) overlooked background of neocon royalty Robert Kagan and his wife Victoria Nuland.