It all depends on property rights and ownership. If few people hoard and control all of the resources and means of production that make the resources like gold valuable, they will continue to profit. Everyone else’s standard of living will continue to plummet in their efforts to control more markets (through wars, embargoes, trade agreements, etc.) and squeeze out the greatest amount of profits from everything and everyone.

Until property relations change, the property-less (and I don’t mean a single family homes….i mean machines and resources that create wealth) will continue to struggle to greater and greater degrees across the world.

The working class needs jobs. Capitalists own the means of production; these means require the workers. Are you arguing that some capitalists are good/bad? They all ravage the world and exploit labor as the capitalist system requires.

I don’t trust MTG, but I also don’t trust AOC!

No reform is forever. We should know this by now, as they reverse Roe v. Wade, erode labor protections, attack LGBTQ people, etc. The change we need is system-wide…

In a class-based system like capitalism, the state (cops, courts, military, ICE, etc.) exists to maintain the rule of one class over another, in this case the capitalist class. American neo-liberalism has served the capitalists’ interests well for the last few decades, but it is no longer. They need to tighten their grip because they are losing ground economically (to China, specifically).

This is when you see every effort to divide (weaken) and repress the working masses. Minoritized people and leftists are the first to be repressed - they are easy targets because the capitalists and the media outlets spend billions propagandizing the working masses to turn against these groups. This is when you see right wing reaction - as we are seeing now, not just in the US, but in many of the capitalist countries that are allies with US imperialism. This is a cycle that keeps repeating in every capitalist crisis.

It is in the interests of the whole working class - internationally - to recognize this tactic used to divide the working masses (which will lead to even lower quality of life for all) and to instead stand up against this repression and to defend people on the receiving end of US Imperialist aggression, whether this be workers, minorities, and/or countries (Iran, Cuba, etc.).

Not nearly enough.

Only serve the army of the working class.

The ruling class has always made sure their spaces are safe. They control all of the machines of propaganda.

Only the imperialists have the right to self-determination. None of the rest of us….and that includes the workers within the imperial core.

The dictator and criminal is US imperialism and all of the mini-imperialist countries. The system that demands the type of behavior, and that causes the world to suffer remains fully in tact after this figurehead who is a particularly distasteful ruler is no longer. This isn’t just a Trump problem….as terrible as he is.

There is no leadership that can make a system designed from the ground up to screw workers and minorities in order to enrich billionaires work in the interests of workers and minorities. You can’t reform rot.

Exactly. Not only clearer, broader, more ambitious goals, but also a different strategy. Protests allow you to meet people, but refusing labor causes the rulers to respond.

The Prairieland case was an important case for the capitalist state of US Imperialism. It was a litmus test, a threat, to all people who dare criticize and challenge its rule within the belly of the beast. Just like the Iran war, which is about control over the region, and beating back any neo-colonial governments who don’t fall in line with the wishes of US Imperialism….this is the US government waging similar class war at home.

Yes, and the USSR (a communist country who started fighting to defeat fascism) was winning against the nazis before US involvement. The US and imperialist allies couldn’t have the Soviet Union win and spread their socialist revolution. It was for money and power, not because capitalist countries have an issue with fascism. Fascism is capitalism in decay. Communism isn’t the evil they want you to believe…it is actually liberation for all. Capitalists and their cronies want to keep you subjugated to them and their interests….and they have spent billions propagandizing to ensure you think of communism as a boogeyman.