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Two things. First, why the Atlantic and other organs of liberal ruling class opinion finally feel that they need to impeach Trump should not be that hard to understand. Trump almost certainly committed textbook treason in pursuit of a few dollars. They don't care about the money as long as he is not robbing them personally, but they do care about his project of wrecking the long term global project of NATO, the European Union, and American military power parked on bases all over the world so that his handlers in Russia can recover some of Russia's own dissolving power. Second, WE (Marxists and revolutionaries) should be happy that THEY (the liberals) want to impeach Trump for our own entirely different reasons. Put simply, we want to see the ruling class's political chumminess blow up. We want them to hate each other, fight each other, destroy each other's power, and in the process and MOST IMPORTANTLY, radically weaken the legitimacy of the bourgeois state in the eyes of the working class and the oppress. We should be happy when Trump wants to close a US military base because we want to destroy US impoerialism, but not in order to support the military designs of Assad, Putin, or some other capitalist despot. Our agenda is not to replace US imperialism with Russian, Chinese or any other imperialism, but to help foment world-wide socialist revolution (as improbably as that may sound to those who have given up on this great project). There are any number of little issues that follow, like the disgusting and evil Mikhail Pence. A Pence presidency will be one of crisis, whether or not the bourgeoisie can use it to patch up the palace or not after Humpty Trumpty's great fall will depend on what the masses do outside the palace. I am not talking about revolution here, I am talking about LA teacher's strikes. It will also depend on other factors outside of the palace like war and the world economy. Best, Anthony _________________________________________________________ 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
