I am reminded of Lenin’s definition of a revolutionary situation, whose language is reflected in this comment of mine:
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Two minutes of embryonic fascism from yesterday (Jan. 8, video link below)
It may seem everything is going according to plan for the U.S. fascists and their financial-monopoly money bags.
But I am very glad that AFL-CIO president Trumka representing 15 million workers has spoken against the push to divide workers along religious lines.
People are being pulled into two diverging and combative political movements in the U.S., pulled by the millions into action.
They each cannot continue to live in the same way.
The fascists plan is to:
1. Suck workers into fighting each other on sectarian lines.
2. Have them fight for solutions that leave the real problem untouched in a reckless effort to prolong the rotting profit system
This is a situation where even capitalists have lost faith in their own system and are starting to decide they can rule in the same way no longer.
The sulfurous smell of war and the open terrorist dictatorship of the financial-monopoly capitalist class is in the air.
But the labour movement is rising against it, millions of people behind Bernie Sanders’ socialist nomination bid are staunchly opposed to fascism, and the U.S. election will be a supreme test for democracy versus incipient fascism.
Note also that two people wore a label “Muslim” as demanded by Trump, but only the woman was targeted for eviction.
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https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/10154366085446509/?pnref=story
– Darrell Rankin, a Canadian comrade.
