Tag: Trump
Fascism, Trump, and Trumpism
Justin Reed challenges Tood Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber’s mechanical application of Trotskyist analysis to describe Trumpism, arguing that it should be understood as a part of an international neofascist response to capitalist crisis.
The US Kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro
Geo Maher traces the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro to a long history of US imperial intervention, sanctions warfare, and the ongoing attempt to destroy Venezuela’s communal revolution.
Water on the Brain
Todd Gordon and Jeffery Webber argue that Trump’s second regime exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
Hands Off!
Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his “lawlessness” are varieties of the same law-and-order politics that left movements should oppose.
Trump, Protectionism, and Imperial Conflict in Global Capitalism
Ashley Smith talks to Michael Roberts about the strategy of Trump’s tariffs, their likely outcomes, and what international labor must do to respond to them.