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It manages the contradiction not by overcoming it but by exporting its #costs. Through #imperialism, social #democratic states extract cheap #labor & natural #resources from the #globalSouth, allowing them to sustain prosperity, high #wages, & #welfare systems at home while keeping #capital #accumulation intact.
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Even those states often praised as moral examples, such as the #Scandinavian countries, rely on vast transfers of value from the #globalSouth through unequal exchange. Their #social stability is built on the hidden #exploitation of others.
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This #imperial outlet is not available to nations on the periphery. When #workers & #environmental movements in the #South demand #justice, their ruling classes cannot offset those demands through external #exploitation.
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With no outside to draw from, they turn to coercion. #Repression becomes the only means to preserve #accumulation, often with the direct or indirect support of the core powers.
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The #violence that marks many capitalist states in the #South is therefore not cultural or accidental but structural. #Capitalism itself requires #violence to survive. The #imperial core can appear #peaceful only because the #brutality is displaced elsewhere.
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#Socialdemocracy, then, is not a step beyond #capitalism but a softer version of it. The illusion works only for those who benefit from it. The #miners in #Congo & the garment #workers in #Bangladesh who feed Western #industries see through it clearly.
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