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From @RandomPoster33, an independent and censored contributor to WSWS.ORG comments section and advocating for a Fourth International Government

This history is too cyclical. It creates an illusion that capitalist society developed in isolation in each region or country and not as a product of specific conditions in the world as a whole, the product of the whole prior history of humanity, like the development from the stone age…

This history is too cyclical. It creates an illusion that capitalist society developed in isolation in each region or country and not as a product of specific conditions in the world as a whole, the product of the whole prior history of humanity, like the development from the stone age to the iron age. In the Victorian Era or the late industrial era, the turn of the century, the years 1865 to 1914, Europe conquered Africa, India, and China, while the United States conquered all the land reaching to the West Coast. This redivision of the world reached a definite limit in 1914, because in order for Germany to expand its empire, it would need to either fight with France or the UK. There was no way for the UK or France to expand anymore either, because they had already divided the entire world between them and the Spanish. The differences between Western Europe and the rest of the world precisely one hundred fifty years ago was not inherent but depended above all on the introduction of the steam engine, which powered factory production. These arose from mere production techniques to economic theory as capitalism, as the idea that the steam engine was something more than labor improving the conditions of mankind, a feature shared by other species in the animal kingdom who work on their colonies and enable their destructive sides in the name of defending the colony and its central machine. This unexpected lightning bolt, the steam engine, changed the balance of power, allowing European expansionism worldwide until a limit was reached, the total redivision of the world, leading to World War I. Expansionism by the European powers was not the result of genius in strategy by any general. It was the greater production, empowering European merchants in their trade transactions around the world, thereby giving their military greater access to defend the transport of the new goods produced by the steam engine. Fascism, therefore, must come after this history as the product of the decay of European expansionism, the ruins of the once glorious empire. It enabled European leaders to build illusions in racial superiority to finance wars that killed a third or more of the men (or of the men and women) from multiple white European nations. This also led to the breakdown of the British empire, which left Canada, the United States, and Australia as much larger versions of themselves. These three giants should have to fight each other in an arena so the rest could redivide the spoils. The trade imbalance will lead to the military of the good-producing “cheap labor” countries defending their products in transit to the selling point. The importing country does not have a right to destroy popular commodities that simply entered into their country through free trade. Usually trade routes have existed for millennia as well. No legal argument can justify the destruction of human culture going back for centuries and millennia. This will lead to fascist arguments within countries exporting to European countries as part of their empires, fueling fascism that targets European populations in other continents. If Victorian expansion was the selling of the excess goods produced by the steam engine, fascism was the poisoning of all those excess goods rendering them valueless.

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