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.
As the far right surges worldwide, overuse of the term “fascism” has increased along with it. To some, Donald Trump threatens imminent fascism in the US; to others, the US is already fascist, or always has been. But Marxists must be more exact about what fascism is and how it happens. Getting it wrong leads to fatal errors in organizing.
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