If History Is Repeating, We’re Heading For War

How 1910s levels of inequality can lead to 1940s levels of war

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5 min readMar 10, 2021
The surest way to redistribute capital is to bomb it all and start over

The first half of last century was some shit, and it looks like we’re sailing into it again. Places like America are almost exactly back to 1910s levels of inequality, similar levels to Europe when it got unstable AF. Now we’re in the middle of another pandemic, fucking fascists are back, and history is rhyming hard. We would be wise to listen.

Right now we’re living in another gilded age, just like last century before it all went to shit. Billionaires like Jack Dorsey are selling tweet for $2.5 million dollars while Americans go without running water. Drug execs have become pandemic billionaires while billions go without vaccines. I am not saying that inequality causes war, but it is the dry tinder that makes history burn.

You can see the idea that something is terribly wrong pervading the public consciousness. Everyone from Trumpists to Bernie supporters agree that something is wrong, they just disagree on solutions. Nationalists and internationalists, capitalists and communists, everyone agrees that something needs to be done, they just…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.

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