Capitalism needs perpetual expansion to attain its goal of growing profits. And the growing isolation of U.S. imperialism is showing what happens when a capitalist country, through a combination of neoliberal economic crisis and willful self-isolation from potential trading partners, becomes unable to expand: its ruling class forces down the living standards of the masses in a desperate attempt to keep up profits, making the intensification of class struggle inevitable.
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