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I am surprised that there has not been much comment on the list on Trump's recent speech about trade deals. It was played at length here on the public broadcaster economic program. Listening to it I thought I caught a glimpse of what it might have been to listen to FDR talk about Pearl Harbor or Churchill talking about having nothing to offer but blood sweat and tears. The delivery was of course uniquely Trump-'s He is sounding more and more like Alec Baldwin. The content about how overseas countries had stolen American jobs etc was total bullshit. but I could imagine that it went down very well with many US workers. But this was above all American Nationalism on display and it will call fort oppositional nationalisms. here in Oz the far right continue to mutate. The leader of One nation, the racist Pauline Hanson initially supported cutting penalty rates for lower paid workers. She did badly in the Western Australian state election and has subsequently back flipped. and now advocates the retention of penalty rates and put forwarded proposal to prevent unions for doing deals that would cut penalty rates. Other independents have followed suit. It is a bit early to say, but it may be that the far Right here have discovered Strasserism - that wing of Nazism which was anti-capitalistic in rhetoric and was founded by the Strasser Brothers, Gregor and Otto. The Strasserites were of course sold out by Hitler in 1934 in the Night of the Long Knives, and Gregor was among the murdered. But I think they were essential to the early growth of the National Socialist Party. Certainly the Labor Party is still rusted on to neoliberalism and could easily be outflanked on the Left even by fake Strasserites. It is something to keep our eyes on in the coming period. comradely Gary _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
