Part of our perspectives series on major issues, this piece addresses mounting economic instability in the US, how it impacts workers, and what it means for revolutionaries. The financial shocks of the COVID pandemic, the concentration of wealth in the tech sector, and social reproduction in crisis are all contributing to long-term decline — and increased worker militancy.
Recently deceased US president Jimmy Carter has predictably been eulogized across the political spectrum as a statesman and a progressive saint. However, socialists should never mourn presidents, the servants of capital and our class enemies. Instead we should remember Carter for what he was: a Cold Warrior, a war criminal, and one of the key architects of neoliberalism.
Last week’s killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has unexpectedly made the suspect a folk hero and triggered a tsunami of class rage over the US’s barbaric healthcare system. This sudden surge in class consciousness is a hopeful sign for revolutionaries, but it also shows that it will take more than lone avengers to combat the capitalist class.
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