Robber baron types already trended towards this with worker scrip but the productive forces weren’t developed enough to do it at scale enough to manage an entire economy like this. Amazon, Wal-Mart, Frito-Lays, Black Rock, could totally vertically integrate to the point where they sustain themselves internally and don’t need an imperial core-periphery distinction.
Neolibs will let it happen because they ideologically disagree that capitalism can’t be capitalism without markets and thus when it outcompetes the current market systems much like how the non-market systems of the USSR outcompeted capitalism during it’s time they’ll rather argue that it’s simply not doing better (imagine the anti-China articles but they’re from the UK talking about how fascist US capital can’t be doing well). Also it’ll happen in predominantly white systems so they won’t be able to out-right demonize it happening.
Neoliberalism being bodied economically both by communism and fascism would be really funny if the fascism wasn’t so horrifying.
Lenin wrote a book about this.
What distinguishes neoliberal capitalism from fascist capitalism? Not trying to make a “they’re the same picture” joke, just trying to understand.
In my head, they’re the same economic system (where markets tend to centralize), just with different techniques and messaging to the masses.
Neoliberalism: feel-good concessions, “you too can get rich if you work hard,” and directing discontent towards electoralism
Fascism: violence, “look what they took from us,” and directing discontent at demonization of out-groups
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