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Learning From Trump: How Progressives Can Become The Party Of Change

Rubenstein, Richard
http://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/20/learning-from-trump-how-progressives-can-become-the-party-of-change/

Publisher:  CounterPunch
Date Written:  20/02/2025
Year Published:  2025  
Resource Type:  Article

How do you win a class war? Here's how: you unite the workers and small entrepreneurs against the great capitalists and their kept politicians. Then you take power electorally and do exactly what Trump is doing, but in reverse: you reform the system to empower working people and subordinate capital to labor.

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Trump, Musk, and their fellow oligarchs are in power now because, as they love to say, they are “strong” and their opponents are “weak.” But their real strength, politically speaking, has not been in the sort of macho male posturing that they often display. Its real source is their ideological seriousness, their conviction that, in time, they could win mass support for their ideas, their willingness to spend some time in the wilderness developing a program, and their ability to build a mass movement to put the program into practice. Because most of these ideas are fundamentally, irretrievably defective, their failure to satisfy the needs of working people seems inevitable. But this failure will only make the need to reform and revitalize our system more acute.

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