Bryan Palmer on Donald Trump
https://socialistproject.ca/2020/09/trump-emperor-of-lumpen-proletariat/
brilliant!
conclusion:
. . . "This is all very bad news. It stampedes what is left of the left
into the arms of the mainstream Democratic Party. Sadly, however, while the
continuity of the American capitalist enterprise under Biden and Harris
promises some immediate relief from this nightmare of Trumpism, it
postpones Armageddon rather than reverses our march toward it. Under the
barely distinguishable banner of Build America Back Better, Biden-Harris
offer, at best, a mildly social democratic alternative to Trump’s Make
America Great Again, as toothless in its opposition as it is tepid in its
political incapacity to boil the contemporary pot of class relations. To be
sure, the Biden-Harris oratory of inclusion champions change. The virtues
of trade unionism are extolled, albeit in circumstances where the labour
movement has been largely neutered. A commitment to racial healing and
social justice fairness is proclaimed, but the economic supports needed to
actually implement this good intention are both only vaguely alluded to and
unlikely to be realized. The plague of our time, COVID-19, will undoubtedly
be addressed with more science and less hydroxychloroquine hype; there will
be masks and there will be social distancing. But without a national
healthcare program of the kind Bernie Sanders demanded, and which
Biden-Harris refuse, how can any pandemic be fought to a standstill?
"Trump’s ultimate farce – in decrying Biden-Harris a dangerous socialism –
may well prove tragic in its own right. With substantive left alternatives
abandoned in the rush to derail Trump’s impending train wreck, the course
leading to barbarism, for all of the Biden-Harris claim that they will
build better, is not going to be turned back. A nicer, more humane, but
still exploitative, crisis-ridden, capitalism, around which many leftists
are apparently now rallying, can never, in any final analysis, be the
answer."
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 9:01 AM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bryan Palmer, author of a much-heralded bio of James P. Cannon, argues
> that analogies between the 18th Brumaire and Donald Trump are misplaced.
>
> https://socialistproject.ca/2020/09/trump-emperor-of-lumpen-proletariat/
>
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