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Similar situation is taking place in Brazil and other countries
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d4v3dwn03o
All these rightwing populists leaders are just a bunch of crooks and they are very popular. The actual president of Argentina is also a crook,
All those leaders ( right and left ) are populars because workers are supporting them, in our time workers like to support crap
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Has Romania reverted to its pre-1945 name of Rumania?Left, right, left, right!
We see the Left is now those parties supporting war and the Right those opposing it.
Like chesspieces: choose which colour you’d like.
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That is what they are doing, they are like clock pendulum, moving from right to left, or left to right, and they are been cheated and beaten by both sides, and they do not learn their own personal lessons
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/29/zzlp-m29.html
The USA empire is in desperation.
It is acting like an injured or cornered lion that want to attack everybody in order to survive.
Greenland is a region that is needed for all the imperialist powers for strategic reasons, geopolitical reasons, commercial routes, and natural resources.
Russia and China are not going to allow the USA to expand its military presence in that island
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/26/xyur-m26.html
https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-24/imperialist-tensions-are-heating-up-the-arctic Tension in the arctic, USA/Russia/China/EU
Control over Greenland: A long-standing goal of American imperialismIt looks like the 48 hours peace deal that Donald Trump promised to his followers is not going to take place, more than two months have already passed and they have not reached an agreement.
The USA is not holding the fry pan by the handle any more, its world hegemony has already declined around the whole world, and it is isolating itself . The proxy war in Ukraine is already lost
Classical painters never used oil made from petroleum, they were made from organic seeds and for the pigments they used minerals. Some modern oil paint tube are made from petroleum but it is the only medium provided by the modern industry
I hope they are not going to destroy the beautiful paintings made by Michelangelo at the Vatican church, and to destroy them because they belong to the Catholic Church, the whole thing is an artistic creation of arts and arquitecture
They might try to destroy the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and others classical musicians and opera singers because their CD, Tapes, and Vinyl LP are made from petroleum.
These so called revolutionaries do not know that our problem is capitalism and the mode of production, the only thing that they can obtain is to be sent to jail by the bourgeois legal system
Racism. Only racists believe in the existence of races
A so called libertarian and anarch-capitalist government ( another contradiction ) that needs the state and the repressive forces of the capitalist state.
They are also borrowing money and renegotiating the state debts with the the IMF, another contradiction
More evidences that capitalism ( and any class society ) can not exist without the intervention of the state apparatus.
Only socialism that must be a classless society can be a stateless society
Repression against the elderly and retiree, and some of them voted for Milei
https://www.piratewireservices.com/p/who-exactly-voted-milei-into-power Most populists right wing leaders are supported by male voters, and a very strange situation is taking place . many young peoples are also voting for them too
The economic experiment of the Monetarist started in Chile falsely called Neoliberalism, and that was the term ( Monetarism ) used by Milton Friedman .
Argentina is not an insignificant “Third World” economy. Indeed in the first decade of the last century it was heralded as the country which was most likely to “take off” and join the advanced capitalist states. it was called : “the United States of the southern hemisphere”
Argentina: 100 people arrested, injured in protest that shakes Javier Milei’s chainsaw regime
I do not think that the US workers are going to tolerate all the cuts that the new administration is carrying over on Welfare benefits, Food Stamps Benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, Layoffs to Federal Workers, restrictions on newspapers, and other social benefits that are affecting the lives of Trump followers and unfollowers, latinos, afro-americans, natives, middle eastern and asian workers, there are some minister who are trying to file an impeachment process but it is not going to be approved, and they are not going to be able to remove him which will not resolve the major problems, it is just an inter class dispute, and some magistrates of the high court ( who have him presidential immunity ) have rejected his executive orders despite the fact that they were appointed by him. He is governing by decree like a typical dictator, but his kingdom is not too last too long
It was well known within his followers that he was going to do whatever he is doing now, and they approved it, but they were not aware of the scale and the form that are being done, and now they are being personally affected by those political, economic and legal decisions, but those actions are not new either, they have taken place for a long time by previous republicans and democrats presidents, almost since the foundation of the US, even more Bill Clinton laid off many federal workers in order to save surplus value to the ruling class and Ronald Reagan also laid off many workers and cut social benefits, destroyed workers union , ( as Noam Chomsky said there was not difference between John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan ) and Barack Obama deported more workers than Donald Trump and Joe Biden, he was called: Deporter in Chief, he can give lectures to Donald Trump on deportation proceeding. Jimmy Carter was the pre Ronald Reagan
The majority of the followers of Donald Trump are white people ( or European descendants ) and they are the majority of the poor peoples in the USA , and most of them are elderly people who are retired and depend on social security benefits, SSI, food stamps and Medi-Medi, housing aids and other state benefits, and they can not lose those benefits, otherwise they will not be able to survive and the discontent is spreading among them, and they are already rising up against Trump similar to Argentina where the elderly peoples are protesting on the streets and they have confronted the police, and they have been beaten by the government repressive forces, but the government is making poop on its pants, similar situation is going to take place in the USA, and trump myth is going to go away. Most are disappointed that they elected a so called anarch capitalist, probably, they do not even know the real meaning of the concept or the economic current
The US workers have been brainwashed by the concept of big government which is a concept spread by the ruling class in order to cut benefits and reduce corporate taxation because those state benefits impose a heavy burden on their surplus value, but most workers do not know that the capitalist state is financed with surplus value, they believe that they are part of the state, but pensions are deferred salaries and a continuation of the class struggle, and they place a heavy burden on the capitalist class, and the post war boom is gone forever
There is a discontent among them but they do not know how to channel their political, social and economic discontent due to the lack of proper political knowledge, and the influence of nationalism, worshipping of leadership, and the bourgeoisie ideology, and they are blaming the problems on state agencies, presidents, and personalities, and the populists leaders are using that discontent in order to obtain their votes, and the same thing is occurring around the world, and the best example is Argentina, that after years of leftwing domination and governments , peoples voted against them and now they are rebelling against the “anarchist” capitalists and monetarists
Most of those benefits in the USA were implemented during the time of the New Deal that was pushed by a coalition of workers unions, socialists, communists and social democrats during the time of the Great Depression, and heavy taxation on the corporation was approved by the US congress, , and some were implemented after the Great Depression by Democratic and Republicans presidents, and many of them were approved by the US Congress ( The House and the Senate and they were codified ) and only the congress can make changes to those benefits, and the president can make changes under certain provisions specified by the acts .
Most of those executive order emitted ( probably drafted by his ministers, lawyers, and collaborators ) and signed by Trump are unconstitutional because they have not been approved by the congress, the congress have let them to be passed because they do not have the courage to oppose him, they are just defending their salaries and their posts including some democratic senators and representatives, they do know that they are illegals, and many of them are lawyers and they know about constitutional law, contract law .and criminal laws, but capitalist profits is more important than the lives and misery of millions of human beings
There are more courts lawsuits against those executive orders than executive order signed by the president, , he has signed around 70 EC, and there are around 125 lawsuits in different courts levels ( lower courts, appeals court and Supreme Court ) but those lawsuits are not so important because they can be rejected by some judges that also support him, and they have been violated by trump and his minions, but the most important aspect is that workers are making oppositions including some of his followers, and his popularity is declining, even though that he was elected by a small margin ( 1.5% against Harris ) and he does not have a mandate ( in a third world countries he would not have been elected with that amount of votes ) and there was a great absenteeism from both sides.
Some of those lawsuits are class action suits filed by different social entities, workers unions, and news media, and some magistrate appointed by Trump have rejected his appeals and some of this executive orders, and they are also under threat
The Townhalls meetings are showing that peoples are opposing those measures, and the Chairman of the House of Representative has asked to the representatives to avoid those meetings which indicates that they are scared of a popular revolt against those measures, and against them, and most of them are elderly whites and some young peoples who have have lost their jobs due to state re-estructuration, tax cut and blaming the problem on workers, in reality it is an assault against the working class, and peoples are getting acquainted of what is taking place, but they do not know that the state is financed with surplus value, and still they think that workers are the real taxpayers which is only an economic fallacy , the capitalist state is the executive apparatus to manager the affairs of the capitalist class, and that is what the leaders are doing, but there are some sector of the capitalist that is also being affected because they are losing part of their profits due to the tariff and the tariff are also illegal but they are using the pretext of the drug traffic but it is not a national emergency, drug trafficking is a very old phenomenon in the USA and drug consumption is very high within the population.
The opposition to Trump does not mean that they have class consciousness, the concept of class struggle in the USA is deeply hidden, and most peoples do not know the meaning of that concept and many think that capitalists and workers are little brothers, and that capitalist can not be corrupted because they have money which means that the corrupt class is the working class, the biggest corruption takes place at the point of corruption where a small amount of human being steal the sweat of millions of human beings, do they know that ? I doubt it In other to understand that you need a crash course on Marx political economy to understand that they are just supporting a parasite class
Workers are protesting all over the countries including measures that are eliminating scientific research, medical research and artistic expressions, eliminating libraries and museum, land and river conservation , even more, some artistic presentations at the Kennedy arts center have been cancelled as a sign of protest, and they have protested about the taking over of arts by right wingers and reactionaries personalities
The situation is heating up in a national scale and Trump is not going to be able to carry his plans without oppositions, and he is marching back on some of his measures, he thought that it was going to be a walk in the park, but it is becoming a bumpy road because workers are protesting against him, and his popularity is declining in many states of the union, and peoples do not care if they are going to be arrested. Probably he will not last too long as president of the USA, even more, there is a crack within the same pawns and puppets that he has nominated
Probably, within two years the Democrats are going to take control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and that will not make any difference, the real push is coming from the working class, and the working class is already tired of both political institutions, they have also collaborated with him, in some countries the US Congress is known as the club of the rich peoples, some of them are also part of the ruling class and they have invested in wall street and industrial productions
He is not going to be able to obtain the approval for a third term, he is a lame duck, and his popularity after four years is going to fall drastically, and as a good snake oil salesman he will try to use all resources at his disposition in order to hold himself in power and to blame his own problems in somebody else including his own ministers.
The MAGA movement falls mainly in the cult of one leader, and they do not have a similar replacement, and probably all his criminal cases are going to be reactivated after he leaves the white house, but that will not make any difference either, the main problem is not Trump, the main problem is capitalism, and the declining world hegemony of the USA capitalism, and the de industrialization of the USA and its competition with other world economic power, they can not balance the trade deficit when it is a heavy importer of commodities, and the deficit is not going to be balance either when the state must borrow in order to compensate the lack of surplus value contribution from the capitalist class, the time of the New Deal are gone forever.
They elected a business man , and a good snake oil salesman , who knows how to deal with their mentality, and he is the CEO of a corporation known as a nation, and his rich supporters are the investors, that is the main foundation of capitalism, it clearly indicates that the state is just the executive apparatus to manage the affairs of the capitalist class, the ruling class can kick him out and capitalism will continue doing the same thing to the working class, the working class is the only one who has the real solution, but they are not ready yet to give birth to a new society, workers around the whole world ned a mental exorcism, they need something known as class consciouness
The scope of the defeat: Trump flushes Kiev regime
The European politicians who bet everything on the war in Ukraine, piggybacking on the U.S., have been thrown into complete disarray by the turnaround personified by Donald Trump. Heads of government and commentators on duty insinuate that a kind of madness has struck the new U.S. administration, not excluding some — among the most baffled, of course — the desperate hypothesis that Trump is an agent of Putin.
Whoever place his/her in the fire of the capitalist class will get third degree burn, and many workers are burning their own hands supporting them
Capitalist will cheat bully and betray each other, After so much show, and spectacles, shouting against each other, the USA and Ukraine are going to sign the mineral agreement.
The best snake oil salesman won the prize and all the Oscars and Grammies
All of those dogs are salivating for the vast amount of money that represent those resources, whoever has more saliva will eat more bread.
Thousands of peoples has died in the Ukraine/Russia war and the capitalists got the best part of their own war. We are just a bunch of masochists
If the national borders are more important that the life of our children and others peoples life, wars will continue killing more human beings
This is an inter-imperialists conflict, and it does show that there is a big crack between the Western Powers and the US capitalist class, and Ukraine is in the middle of this conflict due to the vast amount of natural resources that it possess, and all of them want to take possession of all of those resources which are needed for their modern industrial production
The conflict also falls within the interest of the Chinese capitalists which is the main enemy of the USA ruling class, and for them it is much better to have an alliance with Russia than Russia making an alliance with China, like in the old days the US/Western powers made an alliance with the Soviet Union against Germany, and the USA made an alliance with China and Mao Tse Tung against the Soviet Union . Capitalists power always have made temporary alliances
The USA is desperate fighting for its single world hegemony ( a multipolar world has always existed included the period when the Soviet Union imploded) which is in rapid decline around the whole world, even more, it is losing its grip in its own backyard which is Latin America and several countries are moving themselves toward the umbrella of China, and china is becoming the second trade partner, and there are prediction that it can become the number one trade partner, and besides consumers goods, china is also providing loans, building infrastructure and military weapons, and they are obtaining minerals, rare earth, petroleum, commercial routes and spheres of influences, and some of those countries have become members of the BRICS coalition. Two points of view about this conflicts :
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/01/ltfs-m01.html–
https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-24/imperialist-tensions-are-heating-up-the-arctic
https://www.politico.eu/article/critical-minerals-rare-earths-deal-eu-not-donald-trump/
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PS: Donald Trump has said that the USA has provided more than 350 billions to Ukraine which is just a lie, the USA has provided around 119 billions in military hardware which must be paid back, and the European Union has provided more military aid than the USA, and they are playing the victim card, when they are the biggest thief that has existed over the earth along with the British empireYes. But the word as used in our modern sense had to wait until Restif.
————————————————-I know that, I am just mentioning that particular historical events before the emerge of scientific socialism
Karl Marx also took from the Utopian socialists the labor vouchers, and several of them were christians too, and he was also influenced by Theodore Dezamy
The American natives lived under primitive communism
And the primitive christians lived under a form of socialism
Russian imperialism after Assad more guns and bullets are heading to Africa
———————————The Kremlin losing their main base for deploying forces into Africa and the Middle East has been a set back for Russian Imperialism and thus China and Iran despite them being primarily united by US & Western sanctions and by future sanctions against them. This is partially why Russia and Iran accepted the humiliation of withdrawing from Syria. Bashar Al-Assad was in negotiations with the US and UAE to have sanctions lifted and to be rehabilitated into the Arab League in exchange for breaking their relations with Iran and Russia.(1) This is despite Iran expending $50 billion in their intervention to save Assad’s regime in 2011 & 2015-2016.(2) Russia fought against the Turkish backed Hayat-Tharir al-Sham (HTS) and Syrian National Army with its usual brutal airstrikes until it was clear that Assad’s regime was already spent out and plagued by mass desertions, due to soldiers being paid for only 3 days pay out of a month.(3) Bashar Al- Assad had also failed in fulfilling Russia’s demands to expand the support base for the already long faltering regime.
Trump and the new golden age
https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-02-09/trump-and-the-new-golden-ageLet’s start with what the terrible images of Trump’s investiture as 47th president of the United States tell us. Surrounded by an attentive court of billionaire vassals, as rich as they are opportunistic (they were also present at Biden’s coronation) Trump solemnly declared that he had been “saved by god to make America great again”, a feat that will entail performing two miracles. The first is to bring the USA back to being the greatest economic and financial power in the world (“America first”). The second will be to bring “peace” to the world — by building “the strongest military the world has ever seen”. Translated into international geopolitical terms, or inter-imperialist power relations, we find that he who claims to be anointed by the Lord will continue to do what all previous Administrations have done, whether Republican or Democrat, including Biden’s. The only difference being the crudeness of the character, his political aggression and personal vulgarity.
