by #PaulRosenberg in #Salon:

"The odds that a given state or society can escape such a crisis relatively unscathed are not good, nor does Turchin perceive many signs of hope on the horizon. As he told me in our interview, 'We don't have to do exactly the same thing the Democrats did in the New Deal, but somehow we have to achieve the same result. And I just don't see that happening.'"

https://www.salon.com/2023/07/02/a-short-history-of-civilizational-collapse-are-we-next--and-how-can-we-prevent-it/

#US #history #civilization #democracy #plutocracy #PeterTurchin