The US is the lone sovereign state in the world.
This is indisputable.
The fact that ordinary people do not benefit from this is immaterial.
The state services excess capital, & excess capital allows the lone sovereign to dominate the globe.
How is that not #AmericaFirst?
This is indisputable.
The fact that ordinary people do not benefit from this is immaterial.
The state services excess capital, & excess capital allows the lone sovereign to dominate the globe.
How is that not #AmericaFirst?
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From a purely political-economic point of view, the less state spending finds it way into the consumption of the working-class, that is, into the reproduction of labor-power as a whole, the more unpaid labor-time is realized as surplus value.
Hence, military spending.
Hence, military spending.
CPI, for example, does not factor in military spending. But why not? Though a tomahawk missile is not anything anyone puts in their "basket of goods"; nevertheless, we pay for it.
Labor pays for everything---even the products we never consume.
Labor pays for everything---even the products we never consume.
Here's what CPI calculates, first and foremost. Nowhere in it does it mention the state, the single largest expense in any household's budget. The state is a direct expression of inflation, as a generative outcome of declining labor-values' detachment from prices. 
Look at the overlay of CPI-W with defense spending:
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