Late Stage Empire

Progressives pontificate about late capitalism when we should all be talking about late stage empire...

The United States is in a late-stage empire. As I've written before, Marxist aficionados talk about late-stage capitalism, or late capitalism, but that is merely a theory and not a reality. Something that is a reality is late-stage empire.

Late-stage empire refers to a period in an empire's history where the cracks in its foundation become increasingly a…