Butler, I used to share your apparent confusion. But the U.S. won the Cold War fair and square, and now the state-capitalist empire is doing so many of the things the state-socialist empire did. What else was the war for? Liberty and self-determination everywhere? Hah. The Cold War was much like the other world wars: displacing one kind of global imperialism and tyranny for another. This is not to say that the U.S. is as bad in all ways as Stalin's empire was, especially back in its worst days, right before it was a U.S. ally. But the American corporate state is a parasite just as the Soviet state was, though not quite as deadly to the host population. State capitalism, unlike state socialism, allows for enough of the market to function so as not to strangle it, which in the long term means the parasitic state survives longer and presents a longer-term threat to the world.
