Donald Trump has no plans to deal with the problems that caused US deindustrialization. His tariffs are just a neoliberal program under another guise, to benefit the wealthy donor class.
Lots to think about and not easy to digest. Not sure if the 19th century industrialization, in which the U.S. became the leading industrialized power was entirely due to the factors expressed in the article. Illegal seizure of Native American lands and mineral resources enabled the U.S. to became self sufficient in agriculture and resources. Constant wars and enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine provided a secure, coast-to-coast land separated from other armies by two oceans. Slave labor, followed by cheap labor after emancipation and enhanced by low waged immigrants enabled cheap production and rising exports. Accompanying the rapid post civil war industrialization were constant recessions and depressions, which were alleviated after the New Deal and American hegemony following WWII, but still arise.
The America that has it all - agriculture, mineral resources, favorable climate, educated and hard working population and secure land from foreign wars -- is a natural to succeed. Should be doing much better. Need another Xi Jin-Ping to get things straightened before, as Hudson correctly notices, Trump destroys all.
And as Berletic notes- it's not Trump, it's the deep state's continuity of agenda that is destroying all, and not just in America. The deep state consists of big fossil fuel, arms, tech, banking, pharma and intensive and animal ag.
The land that has all those things that you stated can't bear that it is no longer the biggest and the best. The way was paved for white supremacy by the treatment of the native animals and people (and the way that they still treat other animals in farming, impoverish black and latino people for prison/slave labour in the US and suppress wages in Haiti and all around the world for cheap goods). They can't abide that 'Chinese peasants' are out doing them.
This is their destruction. Until the climate crisis kicks in they could happily continue to rob the America people; but that's not good enough. They must continue to be the richest kings of the castle in the whole world. That's why they're continuing with tariffs and proxy wars to weaken China, enemy no. 1.
Since the CRIMINALLY DEPRAVED Corporate TotalitarianFascists, who PAY corrupt politicians for THEFT of U.S. Federal Government, make it abundantly clear they regard NO Obligation to Defend inviolate Rights and Freedoms of The Constitution , OR ThePeoples LIVES from Abuses of Power and Perpetual HumanSacrifice of the Corporate TotalitarianFascist DEATH CULT, Taxes need to remain in and be put to work for the EQUITABLE Benefit of ALL of ThePeople of each state.
"But some Asian and Latin American countries already are seeking an alternative to the U.S. weaponization of trade dependency to extort concessions. Countries are discussing options to join together to create a mutual trade market with less anarchic rules."
Ecuador just voted once again for a fascist government. The Red Tide has been broken and now MX is in the cross hairs of invasion. Argentina fell to the fascists, Paraguay, Ecuador, Guatemala and many countries in between. Bolivia is under constant attack.
I wish more people had listened to Michael Hudson over his decades-long career. This is a paper that must be read carefully and investigated. Whatever we do, and we won't do much, about how we execute global economics, our system is an omnicidal heat engine. Ecocide, genocide, and war are still at the heart of our modern techno-industrial way of life. If you examine in detail agriculture alone you will begin to understand overshoot, add to that research on microplastic polution, etc., let's forget about energy and the many other materials we take for granted, and you'll see that only a tiny minority of people have any clue as to what must be done immediately to address the polycrisis. Decades fly by, and we are still "having the conversation" with practically zero action moving in a direction fit for posterity and Life. People have known the problems for many decades, but how would we acquire enough power to change directions in a world of wilful ignorance, addiction, delusions, and gross inequality? The oligarchs have more power and technology to maintain their power than ever, and their wealth and control are accumulating fast. It's a bit of a lame reference, but we are already living in The Hunger Games. What's to blame? Moloch?
The reason why all of this is happening at this time, I mean the wars, the ships under attack, the Holocaust in Gaza, the Genocide in the Middle East, and now this so called trade war, is that they are all diversions by them fabricated to turn the cameras the other way.
All orchestrated, directed and executed in consequence to the failure of their globalist UN run agenda 2020/ project Cov ID 19 coup.
All diversions to keep the world in tension deflect the attentions from themselves to stay away from their pending charges for conspiracy.
About the American economy, and effective kamikaze war of the US, it is indeed to buy American bonds back from China at low cost, and to widen the gap between the rich and the pore, which after digital ID, should according to what they have in program, become monitored and remotely controlled by algorithms which will not only keep track of everyone’s accounts and block access even to your own car or home door, but also fine you and take the money out from your account, and more. “Note 6g technology “which is actually 5g”, and their its microwave transmission and receiving and satellite connection system. allows X-ray like vision which allowed to see inside people pocket.
This technology is already used by the military for counting munitions without opening the containers or the crates.
it would be funny if it wouldn’t be real, but yeah, when we were seeing it coming and tried to warn people, we were called “conspiracy theorist”, and now the conspiracy, as become a conspiracy fact.
You've got it exactly back to front Sol. The 'globalist UN run agenda/ 'covid' project is a diversion to deflect attention away from the US deep state (big oil, animal ag and arms). It was fabricated to turn the cameras away from the impact BlackRock et al are having on the planet and everyone on it. The US deep state don't want us to see their enormous profits nor look at who is causing the climate crisis. They've convinced many that global warming is caused by spraying 'chemtrails' from planes, though this would cause cooling, or by microwaving the air and not by 250 years of burning and slashing the earth.
Big oil pretends that Trump's 'drill baby drill' is a failure of the Davos agenda rather than its own resounding success.
Washington turn Trump's war on China and the American people into a distraction to usher in total control of the food supply (which they already have) and total surveillance (which they already have). We should be looking at the people who already have power, not the toothless UN nor a fictional evil cabal.
I think more Religions are the fundaments of capitalism.
Some made to do what ever they want, others to obey the rules and others forbidden to earn what they would rightfully deserve.
You can try to read my letters from the edge of dystopia in parts book here on Substack, though note, I wrote the first 6 parts during lock down and because I was afraid of being censured and did not wanted to get caught by algorithms, I left many misspelling which I never corrected, actually I don’t think I have ever corrected the other parts, though I think anyway if you can survive the first you can better understand the rest.
My next piece will be shocking for most but, I would advise you read it.
It should explain the working of systems and things from an angle which most don’t even know to exist.
If what we're taught to believe is religion then yes, we're all brought up under the white western patriarchy that rewards dominance (or submission) over women, non-whites, other animals and the planet. It enables extraction and exploitation regardless of the consequences. Christianity, giving up everything and giving it to the poor has been totally inverted to having dominion over everything and taking from the poor.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics is still a capitalist system, even though it spreads out the profits, it's still based on growth and is therefore unsustainable. Even though the grid is a majority of renewables, they still are adding co2 to the atmosphere and is unsustainable.
Only economies based on degrowth have a chance of being sustainable. No one is even talking about them let alone implementing them.
We're on track for 3 degrees of warming which will have huge impacts on growing enough food, mostly in the global south. Another reason the US is attempting to wall itself off.
We agree on religion. It is a primitive primordial way of thinking. And what you say about growth is quite true. I see it here in S. America where Canadian mines, Chinese and others are displacing indigenous and destroying the lungs of the earth.
Progress in the mind of the human means growth. And vice versa. We see the impact on food growth due to climate change on a massive level. De-growth is precisely what is needed, but then this too is a materialist outlook and one I agree with completely.
Alas, as long as capitalism, be it with Chinese Characteristics or not, is the economic model there will never be an attempt at de-growth.
The fight against and understanding of capitalism, the case I am speaking of, is the only thing that can raise class consciousness to the level we need. But to be honest, I think we crossed that Rubicon some decades ago, probably started with the bomb.
And the Wall might also be seen as keeping people in, not just out.
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
Leon Trotsky
And the religions or stories arose as humans knew nothing.
The rise of Zeus is very different than the rise of Jesus.
The historical conditions were different, as were the ideas of the times for as Marx stated "The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class."
This is true for religion as for the majority of ideas out there.
I am a historical materialist and thus look at ideas, be they religious or otherwise as they dialectically grow with the change in the material conditions of capitalism.
Il Maglio, the weekly paper of the fascist unionists of Turin, complains that among the youth there is a certain lack of understanding of fascist “unionism”:
“It is natural that there should be a few young people who, while recognizing that the abolition of all forms of class struggle is an absolute necessity ... still believe that labor’s material interests can be better assured by strikes and the methods of struggle used up to yesterday in labor conflicts ...”
In Germany as well, countless young people who believed literally that the Third Reich would be their state, and whom the Third Reich has condemned to forced labor, are bitterly disappointed.
But it is extremely difficult for the youth in either country (Germany or Italy), in view of the mental training they are given, to get rid of the false ideas with which they are indoctrinated, to clarify their revolt, and without guidance do for themselves the work of a century of socialist action and thought.
The confused awakening of their class consciousness leads some of them to the “left wing” of fascism or National Socialism; it does not make them into militant revolutionists.”
If fascism is not progressive politically, it is no more so economically – notwithstanding what certain people think.
Stripped of all appearances, all the contradictions which dim its real face, all the secondary aspects which hide from so many its essential character, and all the circumstances peculiar to any one country, fascism is reduced to this: a strong state intended to prolong artificially an economic system based on profit and the private ownership of the means of production.
To use the picturesque figure of Radek, fascist dictatorship is the iron hoop with which the bourgeoisie tries to patch up the broken barrel of capitalism.
Here some clarification, however, is necessary: the “barrel”, contrary to what many believe, was not broken by the revolutionary action of the working class; fascism is not the “bourgeoisie’s answer to an attack by the proletariat” but rather “an expression of the decay of capitalist economy”.
The barrel fell apart of its own accord.
Fascism is, to be sure, a defensive reaction of the bourgeoisie, but a defense against the disintegration of its own system far more than against any proletarian offensive – alas, non-existent.
The crisis of the capitalist system itself is what shook capitalism to its foundations by drying up the sources of profit.
The working class, on the other hand, paralyzed by its organizations and its leaders in the hour of the decay of capitalist economy, did not know how to take power and replace dying capitalism with socialism.” (ibid, written in 1938)
Dial forward to today in most former Social democratic societies and the same despair is evident.
There is no class consciousness in America everyone is either Middle Class or religious or both the corporate press tells us.
Still none of these fearless pundits will tackle the climate crisis, even Ben Norton and Michael Hudson who mention it obliquely in relation to the Artic ice melting and its influence on trade don't stress what a major impact the crisis has and will have on geopolitics; increasing on who can grow enough food.
Brian Berletic claims that the US deep state (big oil) has full continuity of agenda under Trump. Brian also makes unsubstantiated claims that US 'climate policies' somehow suppress the development of emerging economies (in the West these claims are made about fictional 'globalists' who want to destroy the West). Yet Trump says 'drill baby drill' and denies there's even a discernible effect of big oil, animal ag and arms on the planet or a crisis at all (when there's a well documented and worrying one).
We can't have it both ways. Either Trump has outwitted the green 'globalists' and is not following the deep state's agenda or the use of 'climate policy' to destroy RoW development is propaganda to smear renewables (offering energy independence).
Which $trillion industries might be interested in spreading this propaganda that even Brian Berletic has fallen for?
Lots to think about and not easy to digest. Not sure if the 19th century industrialization, in which the U.S. became the leading industrialized power was entirely due to the factors expressed in the article. Illegal seizure of Native American lands and mineral resources enabled the U.S. to became self sufficient in agriculture and resources. Constant wars and enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine provided a secure, coast-to-coast land separated from other armies by two oceans. Slave labor, followed by cheap labor after emancipation and enhanced by low waged immigrants enabled cheap production and rising exports. Accompanying the rapid post civil war industrialization were constant recessions and depressions, which were alleviated after the New Deal and American hegemony following WWII, but still arise.
The America that has it all - agriculture, mineral resources, favorable climate, educated and hard working population and secure land from foreign wars -- is a natural to succeed. Should be doing much better. Need another Xi Jin-Ping to get things straightened before, as Hudson correctly notices, Trump destroys all.
Trump will not destroy it. Capitalism under Trump will destroy it.
And as Berletic notes- it's not Trump, it's the deep state's continuity of agenda that is destroying all, and not just in America. The deep state consists of big fossil fuel, arms, tech, banking, pharma and intensive and animal ag.
The land that has all those things that you stated can't bear that it is no longer the biggest and the best. The way was paved for white supremacy by the treatment of the native animals and people (and the way that they still treat other animals in farming, impoverish black and latino people for prison/slave labour in the US and suppress wages in Haiti and all around the world for cheap goods). They can't abide that 'Chinese peasants' are out doing them.
This is their destruction. Until the climate crisis kicks in they could happily continue to rob the America people; but that's not good enough. They must continue to be the richest kings of the castle in the whole world. That's why they're continuing with tariffs and proxy wars to weaken China, enemy no. 1.
Everyone will lose.
Since the CRIMINALLY DEPRAVED Corporate TotalitarianFascists, who PAY corrupt politicians for THEFT of U.S. Federal Government, make it abundantly clear they regard NO Obligation to Defend inviolate Rights and Freedoms of The Constitution , OR ThePeoples LIVES from Abuses of Power and Perpetual HumanSacrifice of the Corporate TotalitarianFascist DEATH CULT, Taxes need to remain in and be put to work for the EQUITABLE Benefit of ALL of ThePeople of each state.
This is one HELLUVA sentence. I use UPPER CASE often to stress points, so good for you.
"But some Asian and Latin American countries already are seeking an alternative to the U.S. weaponization of trade dependency to extort concessions. Countries are discussing options to join together to create a mutual trade market with less anarchic rules."
Ecuador just voted once again for a fascist government. The Red Tide has been broken and now MX is in the cross hairs of invasion. Argentina fell to the fascists, Paraguay, Ecuador, Guatemala and many countries in between. Bolivia is under constant attack.
We cannot breathe.
"The workingman has no country." Marx
I wish more people had listened to Michael Hudson over his decades-long career. This is a paper that must be read carefully and investigated. Whatever we do, and we won't do much, about how we execute global economics, our system is an omnicidal heat engine. Ecocide, genocide, and war are still at the heart of our modern techno-industrial way of life. If you examine in detail agriculture alone you will begin to understand overshoot, add to that research on microplastic polution, etc., let's forget about energy and the many other materials we take for granted, and you'll see that only a tiny minority of people have any clue as to what must be done immediately to address the polycrisis. Decades fly by, and we are still "having the conversation" with practically zero action moving in a direction fit for posterity and Life. People have known the problems for many decades, but how would we acquire enough power to change directions in a world of wilful ignorance, addiction, delusions, and gross inequality? The oligarchs have more power and technology to maintain their power than ever, and their wealth and control are accumulating fast. It's a bit of a lame reference, but we are already living in The Hunger Games. What's to blame? Moloch?
Opposition will be hard. All the AI tools will leave us as thiefs in the night running from AI
Very informative and well expressed.
The reason why all of this is happening at this time, I mean the wars, the ships under attack, the Holocaust in Gaza, the Genocide in the Middle East, and now this so called trade war, is that they are all diversions by them fabricated to turn the cameras the other way.
All orchestrated, directed and executed in consequence to the failure of their globalist UN run agenda 2020/ project Cov ID 19 coup.
All diversions to keep the world in tension deflect the attentions from themselves to stay away from their pending charges for conspiracy.
About the American economy, and effective kamikaze war of the US, it is indeed to buy American bonds back from China at low cost, and to widen the gap between the rich and the pore, which after digital ID, should according to what they have in program, become monitored and remotely controlled by algorithms which will not only keep track of everyone’s accounts and block access even to your own car or home door, but also fine you and take the money out from your account, and more. “Note 6g technology “which is actually 5g”, and their its microwave transmission and receiving and satellite connection system. allows X-ray like vision which allowed to see inside people pocket.
This technology is already used by the military for counting munitions without opening the containers or the crates.
it would be funny if it wouldn’t be real, but yeah, when we were seeing it coming and tried to warn people, we were called “conspiracy theorist”, and now the conspiracy, as become a conspiracy fact.
Thank you for sharing
You've got it exactly back to front Sol. The 'globalist UN run agenda/ 'covid' project is a diversion to deflect attention away from the US deep state (big oil, animal ag and arms). It was fabricated to turn the cameras away from the impact BlackRock et al are having on the planet and everyone on it. The US deep state don't want us to see their enormous profits nor look at who is causing the climate crisis. They've convinced many that global warming is caused by spraying 'chemtrails' from planes, though this would cause cooling, or by microwaving the air and not by 250 years of burning and slashing the earth.
Big oil pretends that Trump's 'drill baby drill' is a failure of the Davos agenda rather than its own resounding success.
Washington turn Trump's war on China and the American people into a distraction to usher in total control of the food supply (which they already have) and total surveillance (which they already have). We should be looking at the people who already have power, not the toothless UN nor a fictional evil cabal.
Capitalism, the largest criminal conspiracy in the world
Nope, it all started with religions.
Capitalism is a religion.
I think more Religions are the fundaments of capitalism.
Some made to do what ever they want, others to obey the rules and others forbidden to earn what they would rightfully deserve.
You can try to read my letters from the edge of dystopia in parts book here on Substack, though note, I wrote the first 6 parts during lock down and because I was afraid of being censured and did not wanted to get caught by algorithms, I left many misspelling which I never corrected, actually I don’t think I have ever corrected the other parts, though I think anyway if you can survive the first you can better understand the rest.
My next piece will be shocking for most but, I would advise you read it.
It should explain the working of systems and things from an angle which most don’t even know to exist.
If what we're taught to believe is religion then yes, we're all brought up under the white western patriarchy that rewards dominance (or submission) over women, non-whites, other animals and the planet. It enables extraction and exploitation regardless of the consequences. Christianity, giving up everything and giving it to the poor has been totally inverted to having dominion over everything and taking from the poor.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics is still a capitalist system, even though it spreads out the profits, it's still based on growth and is therefore unsustainable. Even though the grid is a majority of renewables, they still are adding co2 to the atmosphere and is unsustainable.
Only economies based on degrowth have a chance of being sustainable. No one is even talking about them let alone implementing them.
We're on track for 3 degrees of warming which will have huge impacts on growing enough food, mostly in the global south. Another reason the US is attempting to wall itself off.
We agree on religion. It is a primitive primordial way of thinking. And what you say about growth is quite true. I see it here in S. America where Canadian mines, Chinese and others are displacing indigenous and destroying the lungs of the earth.
Progress in the mind of the human means growth. And vice versa. We see the impact on food growth due to climate change on a massive level. De-growth is precisely what is needed, but then this too is a materialist outlook and one I agree with completely.
Alas, as long as capitalism, be it with Chinese Characteristics or not, is the economic model there will never be an attempt at de-growth.
The fight against and understanding of capitalism, the case I am speaking of, is the only thing that can raise class consciousness to the level we need. But to be honest, I think we crossed that Rubicon some decades ago, probably started with the bomb.
And the Wall might also be seen as keeping people in, not just out.
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
Leon Trotsky
And the religions or stories arose as humans knew nothing.
The rise of Zeus is very different than the rise of Jesus.
The historical conditions were different, as were the ideas of the times for as Marx stated "The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class."
This is true for religion as for the majority of ideas out there.
I am a historical materialist and thus look at ideas, be they religious or otherwise as they dialectically grow with the change in the material conditions of capitalism.
Il Maglio, the weekly paper of the fascist unionists of Turin, complains that among the youth there is a certain lack of understanding of fascist “unionism”:
“It is natural that there should be a few young people who, while recognizing that the abolition of all forms of class struggle is an absolute necessity ... still believe that labor’s material interests can be better assured by strikes and the methods of struggle used up to yesterday in labor conflicts ...”
In Germany as well, countless young people who believed literally that the Third Reich would be their state, and whom the Third Reich has condemned to forced labor, are bitterly disappointed.
But it is extremely difficult for the youth in either country (Germany or Italy), in view of the mental training they are given, to get rid of the false ideas with which they are indoctrinated, to clarify their revolt, and without guidance do for themselves the work of a century of socialist action and thought.
The confused awakening of their class consciousness leads some of them to the “left wing” of fascism or National Socialism; it does not make them into militant revolutionists.”
If fascism is not progressive politically, it is no more so economically – notwithstanding what certain people think.
Stripped of all appearances, all the contradictions which dim its real face, all the secondary aspects which hide from so many its essential character, and all the circumstances peculiar to any one country, fascism is reduced to this: a strong state intended to prolong artificially an economic system based on profit and the private ownership of the means of production.
To use the picturesque figure of Radek, fascist dictatorship is the iron hoop with which the bourgeoisie tries to patch up the broken barrel of capitalism.
Here some clarification, however, is necessary: the “barrel”, contrary to what many believe, was not broken by the revolutionary action of the working class; fascism is not the “bourgeoisie’s answer to an attack by the proletariat” but rather “an expression of the decay of capitalist economy”.
The barrel fell apart of its own accord.
Fascism is, to be sure, a defensive reaction of the bourgeoisie, but a defense against the disintegration of its own system far more than against any proletarian offensive – alas, non-existent.
The crisis of the capitalist system itself is what shook capitalism to its foundations by drying up the sources of profit.
The working class, on the other hand, paralyzed by its organizations and its leaders in the hour of the decay of capitalist economy, did not know how to take power and replace dying capitalism with socialism.” (ibid, written in 1938)
Dial forward to today in most former Social democratic societies and the same despair is evident.
There is no class consciousness in America everyone is either Middle Class or religious or both the corporate press tells us.
Still none of these fearless pundits will tackle the climate crisis, even Ben Norton and Michael Hudson who mention it obliquely in relation to the Artic ice melting and its influence on trade don't stress what a major impact the crisis has and will have on geopolitics; increasing on who can grow enough food.
Brian Berletic claims that the US deep state (big oil) has full continuity of agenda under Trump. Brian also makes unsubstantiated claims that US 'climate policies' somehow suppress the development of emerging economies (in the West these claims are made about fictional 'globalists' who want to destroy the West). Yet Trump says 'drill baby drill' and denies there's even a discernible effect of big oil, animal ag and arms on the planet or a crisis at all (when there's a well documented and worrying one).
We can't have it both ways. Either Trump has outwitted the green 'globalists' and is not following the deep state's agenda or the use of 'climate policy' to destroy RoW development is propaganda to smear renewables (offering energy independence).
Which $trillion industries might be interested in spreading this propaganda that even Brian Berletic has fallen for?
Wealthy Donor Class . That’s what the Insider Trading
was all about.