what are my chances of catching one later today ? should i drive ? <| sep |> You might want to play now , but your teammates don ' t want you to play now . <| sep |> they probably go to college <| sep |> What games on the Viveport sale are worth the deal ? I picked up the BlackFriday Bundle because SoundStage looked neat and it was a good deal on it . What else is worth a closer look ? <| sep |> Any bronzesilver rare you own has probably gone up in price . <| sep |> He ' s been eating turkey ! <| sep |> As progress begins to erode the social and class hierarchies that allow capitalism to work , it threatens the dominance of the upper classes over the lower classes , the natural law and order of the capitalist world . Capitalism does not work on a class basis any more , if it ever did . The industrialists are not aristocrats . The 1 % are dominant because of their greater purchasing power , not because of the class they were born into . Capitalism works because the wealthy few can afford to pay the poor masses to work for them . Economic inequality is the basis that allows capitalism to work , and that is tied purely to possession of currency , not class hierarchies . Fascism is an ideology based on traditionalism , class collaborationism , and promotes a strict social hierarchy , which maintains the social conditions that allow capitalism to work . Fascism seeks to eliminate boundaries between individuals in a form of national solidarity , in that everyone is a citizen pulling in the same direction , and the nation is more important than the individual . It allows capitalism to work only as a side effect of enforced social order and obedience to the state . In that if everyone believes that they should work hard and not complain in whatever station they are in , as a cog in a larger wheel in order to make their nation greater considering this a more important goal than to make their own individual situation greater then the existing social structures will continue more efficiently , whatever they may be at the time . If it was feudalism then feudalism would be maintained , if it was socialism , then socialism would be maintained . We saw fascism appear in a heavily industrialised , capitalist society , and so we saw it maintain the pillars of capitalism as a result . It ' s essentially a reset button the upper class can use when their position is threatened . Not really . The upper class in Germany and the industrialists found their position extremely threatened under fascism . Their natural dominance of aristocratic and capitalist society was upended and turned over to populists , whose power was derived solely from their ability to bind the nation together under the dominant ideology rather than from their positions in society , or their wealth . Fascism largely swept away or sidelined the individuals who dominated the old order , at the same time as it supported the systems of society that drove it . if capitalism were left to its natural course , the internal contradictions of it would cause it to crash in on itself and create the seeds of its own destruction . This is a Marxist statement of faith which has never been shown to actually occur . He predicted it would happen at the end of the nineteenth century , and it has never actually happened for over a hundred years except at the point of a gun . By now even the most fervent Marxists must be starting to realise that Marx perhaps was mistaken about this point . as Malcolm X said , you cannot have capitalism without racism , because capitalism requires a working class , and racist systems are a form of class control meant to divide the working classI think this is a valuable point . Once the mass of those who must work to survive because they are too poor to support themselves unite , they become able to demand a greater proportion of the value of their production than they are given . This would make them less dependent on wages and less interested in producing enough wealth to maintain the lifestyle of the rich . This is obviously opposed by the rich themselves , as they are greedy . But while a united working class may bring down the current elite , it would not bring down capitalism itself since capitalism would always correct any economic balance naturally to create a new imbalance capable of being exploited again . A revolution never equalises society , it merely turns it upside down . That ' s literally what revolution means after all . Noam Chomsky is also right when he says that capitalism will eventually work to dismantle systems of racism , because it requires a unified , homogenous working class in order to maximize the ability to create capitalI disagree with Noam Chomsky here . Capitalism has no interest in a homogenous working class . It works better when the economically disadvantaged are most divided and easiest to pit against each other for exploitation by the few who are economically advantaged . Also jobs are so diverse in requirements for their employees that a homogenized working class would actually be a disadvantage . If everyone in the working class had exactly the same training , education , and social position they would compete for a handful of the same jobs while many other jobs would struggle to get employees . If everyone was a college educated millennialtype , they would all want to work at Google , and no one would want to clean toilets or pick oranges . So capitalism would naturally correct itself to encourage poorer , less educated immigrants to come in to do the jobs the bulk of the integrated working class wouldn ' t want . And that bulk of the working class would see that there was no point in paying for a college education as there isn ' t enough jobs for them all , so many would drop out early and not get educated . Therefore they would deintegrate themselves , creating a diversity of types again , the moreadvantaged few who can get the better work and the various levels of lessand lessadvantaged who will be only qualified for the more menial work . This is what progressive liberal identity politics is people like Clinton , progressive liberals , who still believe in capitalism , work to integrate people of colour , occupied indigenous people , LGBT , etc . , into the system . By dismantling these systems , they are creating a bigger supply of labour to feed the capitalist industry . This doesn ' t really work . Liberal politics tries to homogenise social standing so that everyone has the same opportunity to raise or lower themselves between high and low paying jobs based on their ability and effort rather than because of social circumstances . The ' supply of labour ' doesn ' t increase by doing so , it actually remains the same since the people of colour , immigrants etc were always in the system . All the working class were already working for someone , because otherwise they couldn ' t survive from just the income generated by their own property . But it gives freedom of selfselection within that system to the people , so immigrants , black people , etc . aren ' t trapped right at the bottom just because of their circumstances . The problem with this is capitalism needs scarcity . If you flood the market with anything , the prices drop if the demand doesn ' t increase with the supply . With labour , this means wages drop , so more people work , but they all earn less . There will always be scarcity , since the system will selfcorrect to create economic imbalance see above . However the people trapped within a liberalised system will have more freedom to selfselect their positions based on personal ability and effort rather than due to accidental circumstance . Reactionaries , on the other hand , use the problems of social progress in capitalist society as evidence that we must roll back on this social progress . The main problem with this kind of social progress is that unfortunately a liberalised society giving equal opportunities to all , no matter someone ' s circumstance , is changing the rules that many people grew up with . People who believed their birth and traditional position in society guaranteed them a job now find that people who were never their competitors before are now competing for the jobs they had grown to expect for themselves . And when combined with a changing global situation which removes many of the traditional jobs wholesale , this is a fertile ground for reactionary ideology . Businessmen and industrialists supported fascism because they thought that because it would hold up the foundations of society , it would naturally follow that it would also protect their personal positions of traditional dominance within that society . However , while it did the former , it failed to provide the latter , giving dominance to new individuals instead , and threatening the social standing of its wealthy supporters . For the working class , who are generally even more susceptible to reactionary ideology than the wealthy since they are more at risk from social change , they supported fascism for largely the same reasons , but found that a system that ignored them as individuals in favour of improving the state also ignored their personal happiness , freedom , or safety . This is the problem with fascism , it always puts the emphasis on the nation rather than the individual , and people assume that just because they are part of that nation , if the nation becomes great , then naturally their own position will also become great . But this is never the purpose or intent of fascism . It makes the country great , but by stomping the individual under its boot heel even more than before .