Friday, July 23, 2021

Wolff Responds: Not Labor Shortage but CLASS Struggle

 

 What Wolff describes here is laying the foundation for huge class battles ahead. Biden's aggressive posturing with regard to ------Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and anywhere else where US imperialism finds unfavorable ground, losing ground with regard to its main competitor, China----is a product of the weakened influence of US imperialism on the world stage and the crisis of US capitalism at home.

The crisis is a crisis of global capitalism and the Chinese Stalinist regime will be facing huge battles ahead also. There are already hundreds of thousands of protests and confrontations between the state and the Chinese working class both urban and rural.  The Chinese working class is hundreds of millions strong. 

If ever the time was ripe for a global working class movement against capitalism it is now. We saw a small example of global solidarity among workers and the oppressed in relation to the security state violence that began with the opposition to the murder of black people in the US by the police.

There is, alongside this crisis of the economic system and its political superstructure, a crisis affecting the working classes of the world that delays the global fightback and prolongs suffering and that is the lack of a leadership globally. Yes, I believe leadership matters. RM
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1 comment:

Jason O'Neal said...

Richard, let's not forget the farmers in India. When we see the spread of abject poverty in the face of obscene wealth like what is happening in India and China (combined they are nearly half of the world's population) I think the U.S. working class will be watching the beginnings of revolution from the comfort of their recliners while drinking a beer as their favorite sporting event or a multitude of other television programs is interrupted with "breaking news." I am not sure the movement inside the empire will be a simultaneous one or one that lags behind, but it will need to happen to force the world economic system to deal with internal pressures at the same time as the outside upheaval. Let's hope the masses aren't roped into another nationalistic frenzy to start another war abroad to take our minds off things...