Maga Movement Implodes. Workers Have No Side in That Squabble

Richard Mellor

June 25, 2025

 

As the Maga movement implodes from within, workers have to think carefully before we align ourselves with nationalists like Tucker Carlson; remember, a broken  clock is right twice a day. What we are witnessing is a division, what is amounting to a chasm, opening up in the enemy camp. 

Workers have nothing in common with people like these opportunists who do no productive labor and are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The idea of America first means American capitalism first, which has wrought death and destruction to working people and our communities throughout the world. Carlson's stance on Zionism, and Israel, is because the Zionist regime is becoming a serious threat to U.S. capitalism's influence and power in this vital area of the world at a time when its global dominance is being undermined by China. 

 

There is already a new rail link between China and Iran and this is a threat to U.S. capitalism as well. When the Western mass media, and the U.S. mass media in particular, talk of Chinese aggression, it is referring to being outcompeted by China economically, not physical aggression. You see, there is no such thing as fair trade or fair competition as the notices in trendy coffee shops love to claim when they advertise their coffee sources. Like so called religious tolerance, economic competition is only tolerated by the one leading the pack, the dominant power or religion in question. The pecking order must not be rearranged.

Israel is not serving U.S. capitalism’s interest anymore. So, after millions of deaths and total destruction in the region, the U.S. rogue regime is reconsidering its options.

Carlson's racism, xenophobia, and support of both capitalist parties at different times in his life has contributed to the decline of U.S. workers' living standards regardless of which one of the two parties were in power. His policies alienate U.S. workers from our brothers and sisters at home and throughout the world, making international solidarity and the building of a united global working class movement against the brutality of capitalism much harder. Whether it's American, Russian, or Chinese -- capitalism matters not.

Another issue of concern for working people is the issue of anti-Semitism, or hatred of Jews. This has become more complicated as the Zionist regime, supported by Jewish and Christian Zionists in the U.S. and Europe, equates Zionism with Judaism. Judaism is a religion, Zionism is a political formation, a form of Jewish extremism. All Germans weren’t Nazis and all Jews aren’t Zionists and those that are, are generally atheists. 

 

This weakening of the link between the U.S. and the Zionist regime that Carlson and now Megyn Kelly are contributing to, while a good thing, also has real dangers. Over time, I have warned some of my Jewish friends of the dangers of supporting the disastrous idea that the Zionist regime, and Israel, are the only guarantee against a repeat of the Nazi Holocaust; is the only safe haven for Jews in the face of antisemitism. This is a dangerous trap. The Zionist regime's existence, and present genocidal war against Gaza, is dependent entirely on U.S. capitalism and the generosity of the U.S. ruling class. 

 

But the U.S. ruling class's support for Israel has nothing to do with a fondness for Jews or their religion. The U.S. ruling class is rampant with anti-Semites, the Christian Zionist Evangelicals among them. I have always argued that if there was another regime in the area that was stable, and could be relied upon to defend U.S. interests there, Israel's support would vanish. We are seeing that develop in real time as the U.S. racist settler colony has, as one Israeli academic Ori Goldberg apparently said, gone rogue. 

Goldberg told 972 Magazine, “I’m not sure what the English equivalent is to the Hebrew expression להשתין מהמקפצה [“pissing from the diving board,” meaning acting brazenly], but Israel really is doing just that. It’s doing whatever the hell it wants, with absolutely no regard for anybody else’s interests. And that includes the United States. My added emphasis.

 

It's important to recognize that given the reality of the situation, and the continued crisis U.S. capitalism finds itself in, will inevitably result in increased attacks on the working class at home. Throwing billions of U.S. taxpayer funds at the Zionists has the potential to increase anti-semitism as millions of U.S. workers struggle to make ends meet.  Many Americans  receive food and/or medical care via credit cards and while the U.S. security state is running around grabbing people off the streets.  Anti-semites will blame Jews using Israel as a cover. What can counter this is a clear break from Zionism. This is why the prominence of young U.S. Jews in the forefront of the movement against Zionism, Israel, and the U.S. role in the Middle East is so important. 

 

To be honest, there’s nothing more repulsive than the guilt laden support for Jews and proclamations about the need to fight against anti-semitism from European states and leaders, like Starmer in Britain and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European commission. 

 

After centuries of European violence and discrimination against Jews, from Jacob’s Tower in York to the concentration camps on the European continent that resulted in the Nazi Holocaust, European leaders were quite happy to export their “Jewish” problem and support the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. After all, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire left a vacuum that needed to be filled and there were many competitors. 

 

Palestine has historically been a place where Jews, Muslims, Christians, and people from various communities settled or passed through. It is that pathway between the African, Asian, and European continents. Even under Ottoman rule, Jews lived relatively well compared to their never-ending persecution in Europe.

 

It sounds a bit strange perhaps, but the sacrifices the Palestinian people have made, particularly in Gaza where as many as half a million of them may have been slaughtered by the Zionist regime backed by the U.S., has changed the world and introduced a new era. It is easy to criticize the Palestinian resistance, more specifically its leadership in Gaza, but the world will never be the same. The mask has been pulled off and revealed clearly the phony diplomacy of the U.S., the Europeans, and the Zionists and all the talk of two states and this or that agreement. The U.S. proxy has always had a policy of a greater Israel and the U.S. has always supported it. Billions of taxpayer money has been spent in phony talks as the Zionists stole more land, introduced more settlers, imprisoned more children, and destroyed more homes and farms.

 

Huge historical events shatter political parties, bring down regimes, and open new fronts in the struggle of humanity for freedom and a future without war. Revolutions that actually change the social system of production are very rare. But a change in the global system of production is what is necessary if the human species is to survive. If climate catastrophe doesn’t wipe our civilization out, nuclear conflagration can, and it cannot be ruled out in capitalism's end days.

 

But great lessons have been learned over the past 20 months and there will be those that draw the conclusion that we cannot sit idly by. It is inconceivable that there will not be huge movements ahead as the dust settles and young workers in particular draw these conclusions. The truth is that it is only the working class, those hundreds of millions of us that live off the fruits of our labor and the wages system, that can resolve the globe of a social system in decay.

 

The horrors in Palestine and the Middle East is a product of capitalism and can only be solved through the intervention of a united working class. Jews, Christians and Muslims have lived there peacefully in the past and can again. 

 

There is nothing radical about the slogan,“workers of the world unite,” except for the capitalist class and its supporters like Tucker Carlson and his ilk. Their "America" is not our America; we live in different worlds.

 

Yesterday, there was a very significant win for a left leaning candidate for mayor in New York City; it too is a product of the system’s decline. It is important but not the first time we have witnessed such an event. History teaches us that there is no way forward through this capitalist party and Mamdami, the victor, will have to confront that.

 

For a global federation of democratic socialist states.