Kasama's post on Contradictions, crisis and the fundamental contradiction

The rivalry of major blocs of capital not only deeply "affect the world market" -- their clash is one of the main dynamics through which the crisis of capitalism erupts.

In the world today, the conflict between the various imperialisms in intensifying, but not nearly as intense yet as it has been before in history. The conflicts between France and Germany (on one hand) and the U.S. on the other are visible, but not yet openly at points of antagonism.

The fundamental contradiction of capitalism is between private appropriation and socialized production. This fundamental contradiction has two forms of motion: the anarchy (divisibility) of capital producting crisis and interimperialist war on one hand, and the contradiction between proletariat and bourgeoisie producing revolution on the other hand.

These two forms of motion, clearly affect each other.
For example, intensified competition and rivalry between capitalists force wages down, and intensify the contradiction between proletariat and capital.

In another example, the rivalry of capital have repeatedly given rise to war, and great conjunctures marked by world war. These world wars have twice given rise to major revolutions.

In other words, the intensification of the contradictions of capitalism's anarchy gives rise to an intensification of the ocntradiction between bourgeoise and proletariat.

Capitalism plunges into crisis and war (repeatedly) -- in ways that arise from its basic dynamics. But its end, its demise, arise from the class contradiction of capitalism (from the other form of motion taken by the fundamental contradiction.

Another way of looking at this:

There are four major contradictions in the world

1) between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat

2) between the people of oppressed countries and imperialism

3) between socialist countries (when they exist) and the capitalist world

4) between major imperialist powers.

All four of these contradictions are real world manifestations of the underlying fundamental contradiction of capitalism: the conflict between the private nature of ownership and the social nature of production.

The first three are mainly an expression of the bourgeois/proletarian motion of that fundamental contradiction. The last one is history's most violent expression of the anarchy of capitalism and rivalry of competing capitals.

I realise I am presenting this Marxist-Leninist-Maoist analysis in a compressed and rather abstract form.

But we can break it down more if you want.