If the value destruction of WW2 made capitalism recover again...

If the value destruction of WW2 made capitalism recover again, why is it not possible to once every 50 years just agree to destroy a shit ton of capital and then have infinite economic booms?

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Nuclear weapons.

that's pretty much what the middle east is

The destruction of capital itself is damaging though. You're destroying what is reproducing the current standard of material living just to rebuild it again to avoid the cyclical liquidation of unproductive capital. Either way you're enduring a kind of crisis.

We could theoretically get a worldwide political movement going that is pro-capitalist, but wants this once-every-50-years capital destruction process (and also a depopulation process to reduce consumption). Wouldn't that solve the contradiction of capitalism?

It still sustains capitalism though.

this.

plus, if one had political power to do this periodically then one would also have the power to implement a planned economy, which would solve the problem permanently without the need for periodic resets or the destruction of capital.

1) Nuclear Weapons
2) It;s easier to just have constant small imperialist wars and a large 'threat' country for a scaremongering circlejerk every one in a while and keep boosting the military industrial complex without breaking out into too much destruction.

No, the big wigs of capitalism would sooner get rid of capitalism but solidify their control with some sort of gift economy than destroy all their stuff and open themselves up to competition. That's why people talk about neofeudalism.

It didn't.
because

What a stupid movement to start.
I don't think you know what the contradictions inherent in capitalism even are.
It doesn't you micromind.

Because you can't put the oil back into the ground; imagine diminishing returns but with resources.

It did, read about the theory of the falling rate of profit brainlet

Why don't you stop sucking your dad's dick for a fucking second and realize that complex economic phenomena aren't reducible to singular theoretical explanations you absolute fucking imbecile. You stupid bitch asshole licking moron. You drooling retard of a pol cuck fail son shutin.

Compare the economic chaos post-WWI and the economic boom post-WWII and you’ll see the obvious problem with claiming it did. Usually, followers of people like Kliman claim it wasn’t destructive enough which does overlook the unprecedented destruction and destruction of wealth caused by WWI.

The real difference between the two situations is that the Great Depression set the stage for a new economic boom which was interrupted by the war. Golden prices were high post-WWI which creates the roaring twenties but also burst spectacularly driving a deflationary bananaza that spun out into the worst economic crisis in history

interesting question

My intuition is that the sort of collective action this would require is fundamentally not possible under capitalism.

Unironically this is what some Nazis want. They wanna maintain a perpetual state of warfare but they wanna get rid of classes but instead of everyone being proles everyone is bougerious, however the only way they can do that is keeping the rate of profit up. Which is constant warfare.

If you wanna know why they are into shit like Magick and etc it's so that they can forever live an high level of lifestyle, get killed, then come back. Basically an infinite lifestyle of being rich.

If you look into the Nazis that were under Hitler after he killed the beefsteak Nazis, all of them were the worst sorts of degenerates. There was one who fucked corpses. The only way that sort of lifestyle can be forever maintained is keeping the rate of profit high.

The only way for everyone to be Hedonistic as fuck is via Capitalism. Capitalism is actually the source of everything that you see called degenerate.

doesn't matter what the Nazis want. it's what we already have.

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It's why I'm convinced Fascism will never take hold in America. a lot of people are already poor as fuck to begin with.
It's different in Europe where one downward turn and the previously posh gentrified middle class will start killing Muslims left and right.

There is a big difference between not liking people coming in from other places which is because of Capitalism and Imperialism and being a Hitlerite. Mainland Europeans are Xenophobic as fuck, Bosnians are literally genetically different from everyone else because they kept to themselves and Serbians I knew hated the Hungarians in the North.

A lot of the Eastern European nations view World War 2 as a good thing but that really is because they are Xenophobic as fuck and thought that the Soviets were gonna rule over them. The Baltics that honor SS troops
celebrate the day they kicked out the Germans and killed anyone that was left.

Despite all the Amerimutts saying that France is gonna be a Sharia shithole, it literally has the same immigration rate of Japan. Actually the reason that Sweden has a Muslim problem is BECAUSE THERE ARE NO SHARIA LAW.

That’s literally what economic crises do.

This doesn't even start our xenophobia
Though you have to understand that Bosnians are separated by faith.
Orthodox = Serb
Catholic = Croat
Muslim = Bosnian
Muslim is also considered an ethnicity in Bosnia, they are the people you call "Bosnians, Bosnjaks"

Are you really an ancap?

they don't have a coherent critique of the political economy which includes attention to details like the rate of profit

It would be much more difficult for this to happen than socialism.

It's because capitalism is a system of competition, which inherently produces hostility, while this idea requires it to be a system of cooperation instead.

It's as fucking dumb a question as asking "What if things fell up?"

Maybe you could create a religion out of it. Like, every couple decades x amount of stuff must be sacrificed in order to prevent the world from ending. After a few generations people would forget it was all fabricated and thousands of years from now humans would be dutifully zooming around in spaceships looking for resources to waste. We could become a magnificent universe consuming plague that destroys all of creation. A marvelous thought.

that's not how social norms work retard. no society has permanently adopted a tradition to the point of eating itself completely.

Im sure we already do this, we just cant distinguish it from base features of reality because it has been fully integrated.

What are Aztecs?

This is exactly the kind of contradictory reasoning that makes capitalism an insane system.

What you're arguing is pretty much EXACTLY what capitalism does already every time there's a crisis

Thank you for the only good answer in this thread, but if we also were to reduce the population to 1 billion or less, it would take way longer for us to run out of materials

Why do you think they are gonna cause climate change to happen?

Gigadeaths are coming.

But climate change will wreck our resources as well, like the biosphere