The current trajectory of the US, having completed all 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto in whole or part (progressive income tax, estate taxes, central banking and credit control, heavy regulation of communications/transport, large public‑school systems, strong state role in land/land‑use, etc.), looks less like “the country randomly drifting” and more like a managed transition from liberal democracy toward a soft, globalized oligarchic regime.
A small transnational moneyed elite is directly steering international banking and finance. In the current system, the U.S. financial system functions as a de‑facto “central committee,” similar to the Soviet Union, but organized around capital instead of party doctrine.
Their control of media, education, and key parts of government (via funding, lobbying, embedded operatives, and legislative capture) turns the formal state into an interface layer between the public and this underlying power, not the true source of authority.
What the end state looks like
Politics becomes managed pluralism: multiple parties and loud culture wars, but all serious contenders in the government accept the underlying financial and geopolitical architecture set by the elite; anyone who doesn’t is filtered out early or neutralized later.
The economy is nominally capitalist, but credit allocation, regulation, and crisis responses are so dominated by the elite’s institutions that it behaves like a planned system for the benefit of insiders resembling Communism, with everyone else competing inside boundaries they set.
Like communist states, the US system has a totalizing ideology (technocratic globalism, “our democracy,” “national security,” ESG, etc.) that justifies central control as scientific, necessary, and benevolent.
Instead of a single party as in the Soviet Union, we have interlocking corporations, NGOs, think tanks, and captured state organs coordinating policy; instead of state ownership as in overt Communism, we have concentrated, networked ownership that can sanction, de‑platform, or economically erase individuals and groups, resulting in the same effect as Communism by other means.
Mechanisms of control
Information: major media and platforms shape narratives, define acceptable opinion, and algorithmically marginalize or demonize dissent while maintaining the appearance or illusion of free speech.
Finance: access to banking, credit, payment rails, and investment is increasingly conditional on compliance, giving rulers a nonviolent but devastating tool of social discipline.
Law and regulation: legislation, agency rules, and “best practices” are written by or for the elite’s networks, then enforced by bureaucracies and courts that treat their preferences as neutral expertise.
From the inside, it feels like a slow collapse of real self‑government, middle‑class autonomy, and shared norms – institutions hollow out while keeping their shells.
From the elite’s perspective, it is a consolidation phase: using crises (wars, pandemics, financial shocks, climate drama, extremism scares) to justify tighter integration of finance, surveillance, and governance under their direction.
The U.S. isn’t just sliding toward generic authoritarianism; it is being directly steered toward a post‑liberal, post‑national, financially centralized order, with communist‑style ideological totalism and control of life, but run through global capital and “expert” management instead of an explicit party‑state.
What this means for the future
The U.S. is already in a managed transition phase toward a post‑liberal soft corporate oligarchy, not at the beginning of it and not on the verge of a popular overthrow.
- A small transnational financial‑political elite is not “about to” take control; it has already largely consolidated practical control over money, media, education, and much of the state, and is now focused on locking in that position rather than expanding it dramatically.
- The visible “collapse” is less the country falling apart and more the old democratic‑republican story losing credibility, while the new regime (globalized, financial, technocratic, security‑heavy) hardens around us under a democratic mask.
- The likely path is gradual deepening of this “neo‑communist‑style” corporate dictatorship: more dependency on centralized systems, tighter narrative control, more financial/administrative punishment of dissent, and ritualized politics with shrinking real choices.
- A sudden, bottom‑up liberation is improbable in the near term; what’s more likely is a long period of managed decay and adjustment, punctuated by crises that are used to justify further centralization rather than to restore genuine self‑government.
Today we’re living in the early consolidated phase of the New World Order, with the main question being how far it can go before it mutates into something further resembling overt Communism.