Across Europe in the 1800's, a ghost was walking, it was called Socialism. The social and political tensions of a system which had totally emisserated the population at large had become intolerable. We laugh at critiques of capitalism today, but back in industrializing Europe it meant grinding days from morning to night working at the slave farms, without a hope of a contended future. An entire working class generation of the population died out under the pressures of the European sweatshops, as Gregory Cocheran has documented in his various books.
Today across the Western world we face a striking similar state. The political, social, cultural, and economic space is completely failing. The center cannot hold, radical politics of the left and the right proliferate. The system tries to mitigate this with controlled op and talking point grifting, but the mask increasingly comes off. Democratic change to restore Europe and reverse the great replacement, the end of the middle class, race communism, and the western police state hybrid democracies appears impossible.
But what is the future, really? Does the population consent to their slavery and die like they did in Japan in a slow greying out, or do they speak with a single voice and reject the progressive liberal social order? Time will tell, but for now we can already see that a new ghost is stalking the west. And it's name is nationalism