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#FalconAndWinterSoldier The Malthusian logic in the MCU persists post-Thanos! Not only does Falcon get denied a loan for his sister because “there’s no money” beyond military contracts, but the raison d'être of Flag Smashers is that there’s no room for people to return from blip
The Global Repatriation Council is entrusted with the maintenance necessary to accommodate the people that returned from being dusted but can only be imagined as a violent authoritarian force managing scarce resources. It is asserted that humanity was better cared for under blip
The avengers are now displaced gig workers because capitalist daddy had to be sacrificed in order to stop Fascism and thus investment is gone #CapitalFlight
This is an era of struggle over the commanding heights of the economy: money and investment along with the intellectual hegemony that conditions political thought. It is a matter of life & death for millions. It determine whether entire communities can live with dignity & thrive
For this reason, any left that believes that deficits, or Federal spending not offset by equivalent taxes, is inherently inflationary or that balancing public budgets is a coherent position, is compromising on their principles and the possibility for authentic radical changes
Our martial conditions hinge on our capacity to leverage thought and action onto the structure of governance and thus how and for what purposes we decide to mobilize the social provisioning of resources. Public spending on justice based democratic terms disrupts oligarchic power
