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Just as with the neoconservative foreign policy of simply roll over any potential military opposition, there is a wing of the US capitalist class that believes the same is possible domestically. Are they right? "The SF Bay Area sports world is in a tizzy about the owner of the SF (baseball) Giants having donated to the campaign of the racist Cindy Hyde Smith of Mississippi. They’re missing the point. The issue is not the owner of the SF Giants. Back around the time that Trump was elected, somebody I know had pointed out to me that he must have some support from some of the capitalists; he can’t be a total outsider. I’ve thought about that in relation to a related issue: There always has been a wing of the capitalist class that never has accepted any of the changes that have come about in the US. Workers winning some rights through the labor uprisings of the 1930s? No. Black people putting an end to the worst excesses of racism? Nope. Women being regarded as equal to men? Scratch that too. Even the few social benefits put into effect by the New Deal, done to prevent an even worse crisis. No need for that...." As Trotsky put it: “History says to the working class ‘you must know that unless you cast down the bourgeoisie (the capitalist class), you will perish beneath the ruins of the capitalist civilization. Try, solve this task!’” https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/11/27/the-capitalist-neo-cons/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
