https://ahmed.capital/tags/finance-capital/Recent content in Finance-Capital on ahmed.capitalHugoen-usMon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ahmed.capital/essays/acceleration-of-decay/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ahmed.capital/essays/acceleration-of-decay/<blockquote> <p>&ldquo;The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.&rdquo; — <strong><strong>Antonio Gramsci</strong></strong></p></blockquote> <p>The historical epoch spanning the onset of the COVID-19 lockdowns through the political convulsions of the 2020 and 2024 United States presidential elections represents a period of profound, accelerating structural crisis for monopoly-finance capital. To understand the political mania that grips the contemporary American superstructure, we must ruthlessly discard the sentimental, moralizing narratives of the bourgeois press. The media apparatus of the ruling class presents the past six years as a sequence of unfortunate, disconnected anomalies: a tragic biological shock, followed by an inexplicable bout of inflation, culminating in a sudden, irrational shift in the electorate&rsquo;s psychology.</p>