(02-01-2021, 02:06 PM)David Horn Wrote:(02-01-2021, 12:58 PM)Einzige Wrote: Can any of you describe the political economy of Team Fed or Team Blue in any systemic way?
For this, you must paint with a sprayer, because it's all over the map.
I can pretty well do so.
Team Red theoretically supports free markets and low taxes. In actuality it subsidizes domestic manufacturers and extractive industries, with roots in the Army and Marines (of course the militry skews conservative in general, but these are the political mainstays of the GOP there), as well as agriculture. This creates contradictions between its social base and theoretical superstructure.
Team Blue ostensibly supports leveling social programs and unions. In actuality it subsidizes foreign trade oriented industries and the emerging green and IT sectors; in the military its strength mostly lies in the Navy and Air Force. This produces contradictions between its social base and theoretical superstructure.
The interplay of these contradictions drives the dialectic of American politics.
Marxism works.