National Capitalism (Nacism) is the idea that capitalists should run nations. As we reach the ‘into the ground’ part of that calculation, the whole project is plagued by two glaring contradictions. If capitalism is the best, how can it get better? If communism is the worst, why get redder? Master Sun said you need to know both yourself and your enemy, and Nacis know neither. Mazer Rackham said the enemy is your teacher, but the Nacis have dropped out of history class to smoke their own propaganda. Thus they end up like the Nazis of yore, genociding pointlessly and retreating from Russians. Unable to resolve their contradictions, the Nacis become one. A dead man walking, whistling through the graveyard of better people.

The First Contradiction Is No Contradictions

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history, calling time saying “the fundamental principles of socio-political organization have not advanced terribly far since 1806.” He declared National Capitalism the last ideology standing, and said it would be a thousand years right. Describing the ideal Naci state, Fukuyama said, “We might summarize the content of the universal homogenous state as liberal democracy in the political sphere combined with easy access to VCRs and stereos in the economic.” So really just the Nazi Axis again, with the Japanese safely nuked into submission.

Fukuyama dismissed contradictions entirely saying “surely, the class issue has actually been successfully resolved in the West.” This was laughable when he wrote it, and should be a riot today. Fukuyama also said, “Are there, in other words, any fundamental “contradictions” in human life that cannot be resolved in the context of modern liberalism, that would be resolvable by an alternative political-economic structure?” Like an over-confident American at a job interview, Fukuyama said, essentially, our only contradiction is that we have no contradictions.

This belief in no contradictions leads to one big contradiction, which is that you actually do have contradictions, you're just not paying attention. America actually does have class issues, it does have cash issues, it has the same issues any other society has, and none of them disappeared by virtue of the USSR falling over. That was a different country a continent away, America didn't cause the fall of the USSR and they're not immune to the effects of ideological sclerosis themselves. Competition with the USSR had, in fact, motivated the USA; fear of socialism led to many of their social programs, and the productive power of socialism inspired their own production. The fall of their competitor was the worst thing that happened to them, they stopped competing after that. Without the USSR, the USA was like Larry Bird without Magic Johnson. They honestly didn't know what to do with themselves, and retired in pain shortly afterwards.

Since the end of the Cold War (actually a hot war for colored people), America has been pointlessly dunking on Muslims in a long genocide now culminating in Gaza, pointlessly punking Russia in a conflict now fulminating in Ukraine, and pointedly dumping Japan for China, a trade now terminating in trade war. Now that great power conflict has resumed, however, America discovers that they're not a great power anymore. Their proxy army is beaten by Russia, their paltry navy is beaten by Yemen, their pussy air force is only good for bombing children from afar, and their pathetic economy is beaten by China. The Nacis are catching a righteous beating, and you can't say they didn't have it coming. They're still trying to cross the bar to hit China but can't even get there without everyone else hitting them first.

Like the hare losing the race to sleeps, America thought the space race gave them the earth for keeps. In your dreams. The Nacis thus fell into the worst of contradictions, which is thinking that you have none (only true for the deceased, or about to be). This leads to all sorts of diseased thinking, and morbid symptoms (now is the time of morons). Worst importantly, it leads to stasis, which is death for any organism that must adapt or die.

But why improve ideologically, if all other ideologies are disproven? Why progress historically if history is over? Why hedge your bets at all if you're hegemon? This is how the end of history became a self-fulfilling prophecy. The capitalist hare fell asleep thinking no way the commie tortoise could outrun them, and now it's too late. All they can do is cry foul and blame the judges for a race they set and just slept through of their own accord. Thus the first lesson of the first contradiction is this. If you rest on your laurels, they soon enough become a funerary wreath soon enough.

Catchecism-22

The Nacis second contradiction is that they need direct government intervention to beat the commies, but they can't because that would make them commies. America has made the very idea of governance seem communist and a bit gay, which makes them ungovernable. All the US government can do is give money away to rich people and hope that some invisible hand compels them to do something useful, which it doesn't, it's just giving everyone the finger while pocketing the difference. Sometimes government has to ‘just do it’ themselves, but private companies have trademarked the very phrase and you just can't. Even Naci dicktators can't do much directly, just raise tariffs on a spreadsheet. They can't even control interest rates cause that's run by a private banking cartel (the Fed is not, in fact, federal). America has been dismantling the very idea of government for decades and now they get what they wished for. The place is ungovernable and the people are helpless.

In 1986, America's patron Satan said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” This has become a capitalist catechism, what I call Catechism-22. The basic idea is that governing itself is suspiciously communist. ‘Small government’ has been the animating principle of American politics since the 1980s and they haven't had an original idea since. They just keep reanimating Reagan in different forms, and he was just a phony spokesman in the first place.

Remember that every US President since 1980 has been a pale Reagan impersonator, including Reagan himself. From senile Reagan to venal Reagan now, it's all Reagan, all the way down. Like the astronaut from Ohio said, always has been. America was always by the money, for the money, and everything else was just marketing. At the beginning, rich people thought they should keep their money from the king using ‘the people’, and now they want to keep their money from the people using a king. Americans pretend like they follow a leader, but America has always followed the money. This does not really connect to anything but I'm keeping it because the lines are good.

To return to the party line, Catechism-22 states that governing itself is communist and quite possibly gay. You want to have as small a government as possible, small enough to drown in a bathtub as Grover Norquist said. The catch is that America needs, nay, requires government programs to beat the communists, but they can't do it because that would make them fucking communists! As the book Catch-22 goes, “Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. “That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed. “It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.”

The Catch-22 of the book was that you had to stop flying bombing runs if you were crazy, but if you wanted to stop those suicidal raids you were obviously not crazy and had to do it. Catechism-22 is that America has to do government programs to beat the commies, but if they want to do government programs they are commies and have to beat themselves up over it.

Hence the venal Reagan, Donald Trump is caught in all sorts of contradictions. He wants to rebuild manufacturing without building a single factory. He wants to refine rare earths without building a single refinery. He wants to reorient the entire workforce, but without hiring people. Governments can actually just do things, but that idea has been trademarked by Nike and you just can't. All they can do is motivate rich people with money or poor people with poverty, psychological experiments on entire populations without consent or even a coherent theory. They do they worst and hope for the best and call this economics. Nacis can't do anything directly because that would imply a nation not run by capitalists, which isn't Nacism, which is the best ever, as mentioned.

The End Of The End Of History

The USA's ideological rigidity becomes its undoing just as it was for the USSR. It's not necessarily the content but being overly content that leads to ruin. As Isabella Weber said (in How China Escaped Shock Therapy),

In fact, we may observe a parallel between the idealization of the planned economy in Soviet Marxism, where the whole national economy was imagined to function as one centrally planned factory, and the idealization of a market economy underlying the shock therapy approach. While the two theoretical approaches oppose one another on the question of the superiority of a plan or a market as a regulating mechanism, they are united in striving for an optimal, rational economy.

China, on the other hand, learned the opposite lesson from the collapse of the USSR. They learned that they had to change, and they had to learn, from whatever source. So at the same time America was rolling and smoking its laurels, China was working hard at ‘reform and opening up’, using Marxism as a living science instead of a dying dogma. As Xi Jinping said at Karl Marx's 200th birthday party,

Approaching scientific theories requires a scientific attitude. Engels once made the profound point that, “Marx’s whole way of thinking is not so much a doctrine as a method. It provides not so much readymade dogmas, as aids to further investigation and the method for such investigation.”  Engels also noted that theories “[are] a historical product, which at different times assumes very different forms and, therewith, very different contents.” The basic principles of scientific socialism cannot be discarded; once discarded it would cease to be socialism. Likewise, scientific socialism is not an immutable dogma. I once said that China’s great social transformation is not a masterplate from which we simply continue our history and culture, nor a pattern from which we mechanically apply the ideas of classic Marxist authors, nor a reprint of the practice of socialism in other countries, nor a duplicate of modernization from abroad. There is no orthodox, immutable version of socialism. It is only by closely linking the basic principles of scientific socialism with a country’s specific realities, history, cultural traditions, and contemporary needs, and by continually conducting inquiries and reviews in the practice of socialism, that a blueprint can become a bright reality.

The vitality of theory is in its continued innovation, and promoting the continued development of Marxism is the sacred duty of Chinese Communists. We need to be persistent in wielding Marxism to observe and decipher the world today and lead us through it, applying the lively and plentiful experiences drawn from contemporary China to drive the development of Marxism, and utilizing an extensive worldview to draw on the civilizational achievements of all of humankind. We need to be persistent in protecting our foundations while constantly innovating to continually outdo ourselves, and learning widely from the strengths of others to continually improve ourselves.

Personally, I have read a lot about China (and Weber's book a lot of times) to try and learn China's ‘masterplate’ to apply to my own basket case country (Sri Lanka). But as Xi said, it doesn't work like that. You cannot assume that there is some end state of development, unless you aspire to dénouement, and you cannot stop learning and adapting, unless you aspire to denial. Like the Buddha's path through misery, Marxism offers a path through history, but you have to walk it with your own feet and your eyes open to the endless changes around you. As Darwin didn't say, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”

Contradictions, in this sense, are not something to be avoided, but the very engine of adaptation, the polarity of power, what motivates a society to change along with its changing environment. Like pain, contradictions teach us about our environment and how to move away from what hurts and towards what's good. If you think you've eliminated contradictions you've just gone numb and your toes are about to start falling off. And if you think you've nothing to learn, especially from your enemies, you've already gone dumb and the fall has already begun.

How do you reason with such unreason? How do you logic such illogic? Nacism is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a fortune cookie which they daren't open cause it's Chinese. The National Capitalists could learn something from their mortal enemy, communism, but that would make them fucking commies, so they'd rather die stupid. The Nacis could learn from history, but they already declared an end to it, and cannot open a book they've already burned. All they can do is unload high-powered weaponry on children in a vain attempt to kill the future but the future, inshallah, comes. Nacism cannot resolve contradictions it doesn't admit with tools it will not use. So it goes the way of Nazism. To the historical dustbin, forsooth, but unfortunately not soon enough.