Does collapse of US necessarily mean collapse of the supply chains?
Obviously. State collapsing = nobody is ensuring safety of trade routes anymore, nobody organizing ports, clearing international payments, controlling foreign relations to facilitate trade - in other words, the collapsed state becomes isolated. Firms that had international contracts to provide raw materials for their factories would also flee or fail, making production largely impossible.
What this leaves you with is people’s needs not being met and famine, factories that can’t produce anything, violence out of desperation and foreign peacekeeping affairs trying to keep things stable while also furthering any interests they might have (like installing a new government). This is where the mass prole death comes from.
The problem is that the military and cops are not proletarians and never will align with our interests. So even if the proletariat fully achieved class consciousness, we would have to fight the military and the cops at a bare minimum.
This is straight up just bs. Military and cops are proletarian, but are also class traitors since they protect and uphold capitalist rule. This goes against their material interests however (nobody is interested in dying for their national bourgeois at the trenches) and is a product of bourgeois society instilling nationalism and war propaganda into its populace.
Also if you were to look at previous revolutions, military was instrumental as most would refuse to shoot at masses of workers trying to overthrow the bourgeois rule and emancipate themselves, joining their side and overwhelming the government. Without the military joining the side of proletariat, the revolutionaries are no match against trained military tactics and equipment. With a collapsed state, the threat becomes foreign military intervention which would result in the exact same premise.
Anyway this is my last wall of text that nobody reads, I cba to explain basic history or economics anymore.
Obviously. State collapsing = nobody is ensuring safety of trade routes anymore, nobody organizing ports, clearing international payments, controlling foreign relations to facilitate trade - in other words, the collapsed state becomes isolated. Firms that had international contracts to provide raw materials for their factories would also flee or fail, making production largely impossible.
What this leaves you with is people’s needs not being met and famine, factories that can’t produce anything, violence out of desperation and foreign peacekeeping affairs trying to keep things stable while also furthering any interests they might have (like installing a new government). This is where the mass prole death comes from.
This is straight up just bs. Military and cops are proletarian, but are also class traitors since they protect and uphold capitalist rule. This goes against their material interests however (nobody is interested in dying for their national bourgeois at the trenches) and is a product of bourgeois society instilling nationalism and war propaganda into its populace.
Also if you were to look at previous revolutions, military was instrumental as most would refuse to shoot at masses of workers trying to overthrow the bourgeois rule and emancipate themselves, joining their side and overwhelming the government. Without the military joining the side of proletariat, the revolutionaries are no match against trained military tactics and equipment. With a collapsed state, the threat becomes foreign military intervention which would result in the exact same premise.
Anyway this is my last wall of text that nobody reads, I cba to explain basic history or economics anymore.