Re:The Horrors of Pompeii
by cafard on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:25PM
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"Late stage" or "late capitalism" always suggests to me that the user has inside information on the sell-by date. I don't disagree about the proportion of attention.
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Re:The Horrors of Pompeii
by GolfPopper on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:43PM
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I suspect it's a combination of looking around and going "this can't possibly be stable" combined with a degree of wish-fulfillment.
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That might be reading into it too much. I'm pretty sure it's just a joke that capitalism is cancer. As in, "late-stage cancer".
Synonymous terms have been used in leftist/Marxist literature for a long time, that's always where I assumed it came from: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-ca...
Is "this" capitalism?
It's funny that the phrase was coined in 1902 and fell out of fashion by about 1970 and was revived in the 2010s. I guess what's old is new again.
Re:The Horrors of Pompeii
by Der_Einzige on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:24AM
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It's people who believe Marx's thing about how "boom-bust" cycles will eventually destroy capitalism. Unfortunately, Historical Materialism is utter and complete bullshit.