Reply #15: Translation: Capitalism in crisis always produces direct class struggle [View All]

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Which is, in turn, always the object of direct state repression in the form of military and police apparatus intervention. Nothing these great United States hasn't seen before, approximately every 20-40 years as the capitalist cycle falls once again into open crisis.

The bourgeoisie has been resting complacently on their own invention of "non-violence."

Needless to say, the militarization of the police apparatus has been ongoing for 50+ years, and was mobilized specifically to attend to the class uprisings in the urban ghettoes during the 1960's, and the brutal attack of the capitalists on workers that was called neo-liberalism. The prison industrial complex already tells us that a war against the working class is at a high stage of violence in America already, but the bourgeoisie (including many so-called "crime fighting" liberals on this very board!) are shielded from the worst excesses of state violence because they are restricted in class territories.