The systemic breakdown that our socioeconomic system is creating has the potential to do more than worsen the suffering of the people. Capitalism has survived so long because it’s been able to exploit the crises it creates, to profit off of wars, depressions, pandemics, and environmental catastrophes. Yet in certain instances, these crises have instead produced victories for the working class. World War I made the Russian revolution possible, World War II made the Chinese revolution possible, the living standards crisis that the IMF engineered across the Global South made the formation of many anti-imperialist governments possible. When the capitalists disrupt society, they do so with the risk that the outcome will be not greater profits but an end to their rule.
Thank you. Although it is an interesting example, because that’s partially what I meant. The lives of proletariat might get worse on the average, but the system itself appears to be pretty well entrenched. What really threatens the rule of the bourgeoisie? In the example of Nightvale, citizens get attacked, but police apparently don’t mind. They’re stable, they have the resources. Same in real life. A train derails and unleashes a toxic cloud? The villas in Miami are still standing. A school shooting ends with dozens dead? But the children of wall Street executives are fine and continue on their merry way. And despite all those internal issues, the establishment still has plenty of power left, certainly enough to cause trouble for others in order to engorge itself. See Nord Stream, tanks in Ukraine, etc.