Socialism against oligarchy, fascism and war

In his monumental essay “The Class Struggles in France,” one of the earliest applications of the method of historical materialism to the analysis of politics, Karl Marx noted that the “secret of the revolution” which brought the Duke of Orleans to power in July 1830 was summed up in the words of the financial wizard Laffitte: “From now on the bankers will rule.” Updating Laffitte to Elon Musk, and shifting from 1830 to 2024, the “secret” of Trump’s election can be summed up with the words, “From now on the oligarchs will rule.”

The incoming administration will be a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. To a degree unprecedented in American history, the oligarchy itself will exercise direct control over the state–from Musk, the world’s richest man and head of the Orwellian “Department of Government Efficiency,” to the assemblage of billionaires that will staff Trump’s cabinet and White House. As of mid-December, the total wealth of this top tier of the Trump administration was estimated at nearly half a trillion dollars.

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With the now obvious successful program of turning the American society into a totally compliant arena of servitude, they've become embolden to step out from behind the curtain and take the reigns themselves.

{The re-election of Trump is a political expression of the “normalization” of fascistic barbarism and capitalist dictatorship. This has been signaled by the Democratic Party and the capitalist media dropping all references to Trump’s threat to democracy, let alone the “f-word,” fascism, and instead pledging their full collaboration with Trump and the Republicans.}

The Mentally challenged Biden served, was used, as the lead up to the devastating atmosphere that is building up around us and the world. Being ran from behind him by his cabinet picks which were clearing exposed as the war hawks they were going into his presidency. From the lack of handling the Jan 6th riot within legal parameters available, Trump's own multiple legal matters, the timely uptick in the Ukraine war, Gaza and Lebanon genocides, Yemen war, and Sudan genocide, Ukrainian terrorist spreading across the global south and middle east, Syria white washing of terrorist. The deep state now has on hands control of all of it and the judicial system behind it to legalize what ever they so chose to do. Just waiting to get the last puppet out of the way.

{The incoming administration is planning, from “day one,” to implement a massive assault on democratic rights, focused initially on immigrants and refugees. Among its most extreme proposals is the abolition of birthright citizenship, a cornerstone of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, adopted after the Civil War. The targeting of immigrant workers is the spearhead for a broader attack on the democratic and social rights of the entire working class, as the government prepares to enact further tax cuts for the rich and a coordinated assault on every social program won by workers through bitter struggle.

The processes clearly evident in the United States are in fact universal. Across the world, capitalist governments are staggered by massive political crises, confronting popular opposition and increasingly turning to authoritarian measures.}

It didn't work out so well for us the last time! It will be worse this time, as the conditions from then weren't adequately addressed. I had a dry withered broken stick claim on another post of mine from last week where he attempted to deliver a list of achievements of Biden's that are a vision of delusional realities managed by MSM that never took place. When you actually do the research, they're either of misguiding information and or off set by variable stresses countering their effectiveness. Just as Trump's self exaggerations. Must be that divisional party thing. You see it only in the party you oppose, but never within the party you support. Which is why we keep drifting further into fascism. O wait! We there now! Can't any longer be denied! It's plainly in the Trump Speak. From his entire cabinet picks. And we have only ourselves to blame for it. Those of you who have the bravery to actually read. WSWS list a number of examples by countries.

The global eruption of imperialist war

The foreign policy of oligarchy is imperialist war and plunder. “Imperialism,” Lenin explained, is “(1) monopoly capitalism; (2) parasitic, or decaying capitalism; (3) moribund capitalism. The supplanting of free competition by monopoly is the fundamental economic feature, the quintessence of imperialism.” In the competition over resources and raw materials, the imperialist powers threaten to plunge mankind into catastrophe.

Trump’s inflammatory statements about taking over the Panama Canal, buying Greenland and threatening to deploy the military to Mexico exemplify the imperialist ambitions of the incoming administration. The corollary to Trump’s “America First” nationalism is a global policy of “Fortress America,” in which control over the Western Hemisphere is seen as essential in the developing confrontation with China.

Under Biden, the three decades of regional wars of American imperialism expanded into an open confrontation with Russia, the second-largest nuclear-armed power. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a bankrupt and reactionary action by the Putin regime, which represents the interests of the capitalist oligarchy that arose from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It was not, however, “unprovoked,” as universally claimed by the capitalist media. It was the response of the Russian government to NATO’s relentless eastward expansion and the refusal to negotiate over Ukraine’s incorporation into the US-led military alliance.

Simultaneously, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, backed by the US and NATO powers and aided and abetted by the bourgeois-nationalist regimes in the Middle East, has exposed the depths of imperialist barbarism.

The genocide, marked by the destruction of entire cities, the targeting of hospitals and schools and the displacement of hundreds of thousands, is part of a broader regional strategy. The aim is to reorganize the Middle East in line with imperialist interests, including the toppling of the Assad government in Syria, the decapitation of Hezbollah’s leadership and escalating provocations against Iran.

The crisis of capitalism and the growth of the class struggle

Imperialist war is the response of the ruling class to the increasingly intractable crisis of the entire capitalist order. The eruption of ever more extreme economic crises over the past decades has deepened the parasitism and recklessness of the financial oligarchy, whose immense wealth is increasingly detached from the production of real value.

{It's nice to know that stick is so well off this fact evades his intellect. Read on to understand it. Don't let the employment numbers fool you either. They exist in a delusional unexplained reality also.}

The fight for Trotskyism in the decade of revolution

As humanity enters the second half of the decade, the objective conditions for socialist revolution are ripening at an extraordinary pace. The conditions created by global capitalism—imperialist war, staggering inequality, climate catastrophe and the threat of dictatorship—are driving millions of workers and young people into struggle.

The ruling class is itself aware of the danger of revolutionary leadership in the working class. Trump’s hysterical denunciations of socialism express a fear that the rising anger in the working class will intersect with a program and perspective that articulates workers’ interests. Immense resources have been devoted by layers within academia to counter the “peril” of Trotskyism.