Article by Clay Claiborne: 'The principal contradiction in the US 2024 election is its particular derivative of the principal contradiction in the US since its founding and embodied in its Constitution, namely the contradiction between bourgeois democracy and the use of African slave labor as its engine of primitive accumulation. A great civil war was waged to end this period of capitalist accumulation, and a victory for bourgeois democracy was won in the balance. The struggle to complete that work was greatly stifled when black reconstruction was overthrown ~1876. Since then, progress on this front has been slow and halting, but progress has been made nonetheless, and it has brought in its wake, progress on a number of other fronts that seek to fulfill the promise of bourgeois democracy.
'Now, a powerful reactionary movement, a resurgence of white supremacy, has risen under the leadership of Donald Trump. Its aim is to re-establish white supremacy to its position of unchallenged dominance (“Make America Great Again”). ' read full article here: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2024/08/18/elections-2024-and-white-supremacy-in-the-united-states/ -- *“Science and socialism go hand-in-hand.” *Felicity Dowling Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31686): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31686 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107956931/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
