Continuing our perspectives series: The period ahead is one of increasing political polarization among the masses and the ruling class. The most obvious result has been the surge of the right, as exemplified by Trump’s return to the White House. While liberals and reformists attempt to paper over this growing divide, revolutionaries should embrace it.
Part of our perspectives series, this piece analyzes the trend toward political polarization among the two wings of the US ruling class, represented by the Democrats and the Republicans. The once-unified ruling class has been fragmented by decades of neoliberalism and economic crisis. This has led to a loss of class consciousness on the right wing and a new political landscape that revolutionaries need to understand.
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.
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