The richest country in the world uses money it could spend helping its people to bomb other nations, it’s true. But why is the US the richest country on earth? Because US wealth doesn’t just come from workers here, the surplus of the whole world is expropriated—at gunpoint.
They have money for wars because wars make the money. Not only through arms deals, defense contracts etc but the ability to use force to ensure US finance sets the rules of the global economy. It’s not just about ending wars to reinvest domestically, but redistributing worldwide.
Most people in the US don’t share in that wealth in terms of the superprofits condensed in the hands of a few capitalists, but we do have (unequal) access to cheap commodities & credit bc of the exploitation of overseas labor. We can’t take that imperialist prosperity for granted
We have to go beyond being passively anti-war to being actively anti-imperialist—against the parasitic US economy. Ending imperialism will bring relief to billions of poor people worldwide; it will also mean the US middle class to gives up some luxuries. A worthy sacrifice IMO
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