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Our short book is being vindicated by the rapid devolution of the American system: a recent book, The Next Civil War, predicts the collapse of the American system of government. It is a point we have made many times in a slightly different conceptual framework: and the intent of our idea of The Last Revolution is, while not as such intended in that way, a response to the revolution from the right underway. All sort of discussions make assumptions about democracy and the liberal context. But that context is starting to fall apart. Trump's era triggered something that was already the case, and the results were surprising beyond expectation, to say the least.
We have taken up the theme of the now rising chorus bemoaning the danger to democracy and pointed to the solution: the 'democracy' so-called needs to become a real democracy, which requires redefinition as socialist democracy,...
A recent book, The Next Civil War,
The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions
Stephen Marche Tue 4 Jan 2022 05.00 EST
Nobody wants what's coming, so nobody wants to see what's coming.
On the eve of the first civil war, the most intelligent, the most informed, the most dedicated people in the United States could not see it coming. Even when Confederate soldiers began their bombardment of Fort Sumter, nobody believed that conflict was inevitable. The north was so unprepared for the war they had no weapons.
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