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The Capitalist Civil War — A Work in Progress
A book being written in public, one rough chapter at a time.
The dominant left/right binary that structures most political commentary is a distraction. The real conflict reshaping the world right now is happening inside the global capitalist class itself — between four factions with incompatible visions for how capital should be governed.
This Substack is where I’m drafting The Capitalist Civil War, a book that names those four factions, traces how they fractured, and argues that their unresolved struggle is the defining feature of our political moment. The thesis is unfolding in real time as events happen — Davos summits, BRICS implosions, Network State cities, European realignment — and posting the chapters as rough drafts lets me test the framework against reality as it develops, and refine the argument with reader feedback before final publication.
The four factions, briefly:
Davos — stakeholder capitalist globalists working through the WEF, BlackRock, and multilateral institutions
Imperial Nationalists — the Washington-Tel Aviv Consensus pursuing hard power and bilateral dealmaking
Silicon Valley — techno-sovereigns building network states and tearing down the administrative order
State Capitalists — civilizational-state projects led by China, Russia, and the Gulf
What follows is the series so far. It’s a work in progress, organized as it will eventually appear in my upcoming book The Capitalist Civil War. Some of the articles are commentary on current developments to test the thesis in real time.
INTRODUCTION: The Great Divide: Why We’re Fighting the Wrong War
CHAPTER 1: Morbid Symptoms: The Origins of the Capitalist Civil War
CHAPTER 2: The Four Factions of the Transnational Capitalist Class
(COMMENTARY) Davos Faction Floats the United States of Europe
CHAPTER 3: Modus Operandi: Who are the Transnational Capitalist Class?
CHAPTER 4: Globespeak: The Four Dialects of the Transnational Capitalist Class
(COMMENTARY) Carney Does Europe: A Marriage Made in Heaven
CHAPTER 5: The Chinese Capitalist Party
(COMMENTARY) Trump Hurries to Beijing for Emergency De-Risking
CHAPTER 6: Silicon Valley: Cult, Club, Cabal, or Class?
(COMMENTARY) The Quadripolar World Order at the Beijing Summit
CHAPTER 7: How Mark Carney Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Variable Geometry
(COMMENTARY) BRICS is Dead.