Imperialist psyops, social control, & making reality malleable
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Since capitalism reached its highest stage, the stage where the imperialist countries export capital in order to perpetuate their dominance, the bourgeoisie have been aware that this system is crucial for more than merely gaining profits. It lets them project social control. Within the core imperialist countries, where capitalism’s most brutal and extreme forms of exploitation have been foisted onto the populations in the exploited world, the ruling class engineered a dynamic where the imperial center proletariat’s conditions made it relatively pacified. Poverty has always existed in these countries per the design of capitalism, but the wealth gained by imperialism has been at least partially distributed among their citizens. Which has kept their living standards high enough for them to not carry out proletarian revolutions, like was the case for the proletarians in colonized countries like China or in feudal empires like czarist Russia.
Imperialist psyops, social control, & making reality malleable
Imperialist psyops, social control, & making…
Imperialist psyops, social control, & making reality malleable
Since capitalism reached its highest stage, the stage where the imperialist countries export capital in order to perpetuate their dominance, the bourgeoisie have been aware that this system is crucial for more than merely gaining profits. It lets them project social control. Within the core imperialist countries, where capitalism’s most brutal and extreme forms of exploitation have been foisted onto the populations in the exploited world, the ruling class engineered a dynamic where the imperial center proletariat’s conditions made it relatively pacified. Poverty has always existed in these countries per the design of capitalism, but the wealth gained by imperialism has been at least partially distributed among their citizens. Which has kept their living standards high enough for them to not carry out proletarian revolutions, like was the case for the proletarians in colonized countries like China or in feudal empires like czarist Russia.