If your response to Britain reaching 100,000 COVID deaths is to wax lyrical about Corbyn and to insist everything would be fine if we had "just locked down soon enough" then you aren't analysing the pandemic, you're canvassing for the Labour Party.
What would resigning do aside from put a different Conservative eugenicist in power or lead to the election of a man who has agreed everything that the present eugenicist asked for?
The people making money on $GME are not the proletariat. The people making the money on $GME are, at best, the petit-bourgeoisie and labour aristocracy, but mostly just Blackrock. markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/bl…
"Revolutionary praxis" is when you enrich one of the biggest investment firms on earth further. The richer BlackRock gets, the more revolutionary it is.
No, I will not let you enjoy imagining that class struggle is an investment portfolio
Pretty definite stance here from Pompeo. Gonna get wild soon if it's gonna get wild.
The imagery of having Mike "regime change" Pompeo say this is quite stark.
Idk if it's just what 4 years of every potential bourgeois opposition being utterly useless and incapable has done to my brain, but I always get the feeling Trump is gonna be able to pull something off when people laugh and say he couldn't possibly.
Biden's political project is to attempt to not resolve any contradiction in any direction for as long as he can. A hollowed out interregnum, with continuously escalating police, far-right and imperialist violence and no vision but the grey of quietly stated margins.
The violence of US imperialism - even its fascist "excesses" - will continue unabated. Its police departments will riot when they please. Fascist terrorism is already normalised to the point of being an electoral stance capable of winning around half the electorate.
What remains is a split bourgeoisie atop a decaying empire that has no route to stop its fall. Trump forced confrontations over these contradictions; Biden's entire job is to prevent "embarrasment" - that is to find what bourgeois unity can be built among the blood of decay.
Trump's lame duck Presidency (the bit after a new President is elected) kicks off with a purge of the Defence Secretary. Always a good sign that wannabe dictators totally don't do.
Replaced with the recently appointed and now former head of counterterrorism, Christopher Miller, a “yes man” in Esper’s words.
Look, I don’t think this is coup territory or anything yet, but man, that is a *posture*.
The highest turnout since 1900 to vote between overt fascism and a man who’s campaign was “I am not like him in a personal sense shhhh about policies”.
Bourgeois dictatorship gone terribly senile.
The real winner this election was the military industrial complex. Would you believe it, it won 100% of the vote.
In terms of where we're at: Trump's base suddenly seem a lot less violent prone. I think this probably the result of not having clear direction. They can't do a coup unless Trump manages to shift something dramatically in his "lame duck Presidency" (and HE WILL TRY).
That the coronavirus has reduced air pollution, water pollution and so on DOES NOT demonstrate that "wE'Re tHE ViRus", people are the problem or any other number of absurd eco-fascist conjecture.
Capitalism is shutting down. It demonstrates that capitalism is the problem.
If you accept these eco-fascist lines, you are paving the way for the largest programme of eugenics this planet has ever seen. It is already in motion ("only the vulnerable will die" = fascist apologia).
Not one death is acceptable.
Not one step forward for the reactionaries.
The idea that this is "just people's fault" is demonstrated as absurd when one examines the observation being used to support it here.
Coronavirus has not eliminated humanity in these places. It shut down capitalist production and consumption.