Trump's measures aggravate contradictions inherent to the
imperialist system
Brief introduction
On April 2, the ultra -reactionary and genocidal president of the United States, Donal Trump, announced new customs tariffs throughout the world.
Lenin: These protectionist measures are intended to open negotiations, which will not be in the foot of equality and give rise to new trade agreements. Customs wars are rarest but their {paper is threatened by negotiations etc. He says that England is based on its economic power (the "economy of the sterling libra" that dominated world trade, in the present is the "economy of the dollar"), in its military power and in its colonies.
Quote by Lenin with the observation outside NB: “Extreme protectionism resembles free trade in which, while making it difficult to enter the country (high prices), it promotes foreign trade (import (of cheap raw material, etc.) (sale abroad, since the population own impoverish).
(…) It is not true that the "commercial agreements" have suffered a "bankrupt” (Notebooks about imperialism ”,“ Beta ”, cites that he takes from a bourgeois economist)
Both in the imperialist countries and in the oppressed countries this new “customs and commercial war” will again lead to greater accumulation and centralization of capital for the benefit of large monopolists and to the detriment of the majority of the population.
The imperialist partners and rivals of Europe and Asia know this and to have better letters in the negotiation, they hope that Trump's measures against them have an impact on the US themselves to negotiate seriously not only customs rates but everything else that the “Uncle Sam” is brought under the sleeve. They know the "greatest negotiating power" of superpower, the EU (Germany) and social -imperialist China try to coordinate their response,
After the announcement there was a protest of the Republican representatives themselves, because he fears that the ruin of the medium and small entrepreneurs will cause their futures electoral failure.
Donal Trump, after heavy falls from stock markets around the world started by the country itself, on April 9, he himself has been responsible for announcing his postponement for 90 days.
It has also been known that the "wonderful measures" have served him and his closest collaborators of the financial oligarchy as Musk to use privileged information and pocketed juicy profits as a product of the manipulation of the markets with these comings and turns.
But before referring specifically to the theme of the "new Trump tariffs", what is behind the stage is necessary. Some general issues regarding the change in the United States government (USA) of the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
BIDEN FAILS (P D) AND TRUMP ENTERS (PR) AS A REPLACEMENT HORSE ITS FAILURE IS PRE-PROGRAMMERS
In the Electoral Campaign (2024) of the two mafias that are turned under the rudder of the imperialist state, they not only showed a difference in speech and styles between the two candidates but of policies (we refer to economic policy other differences we will not deal with here); The Harris represented the continuation of the State Intervention Biden's economic policy in the economy privileging state investment; Meanwhile, that Tump attacked that economic policy as "socialism" and failure advocating a "new policy" of less taxes and boosting the economy for "benefit of workers" based on particular investment. Therefore, the last electoral campaign did not offer anything new in this matter by both and was not an alternative to the failure of the Government of the Genocide Biden, because the current problems of the Yankee economy are due to the current phase of greater decomposition for which it is going through.
Lenin established that the economic essence of imperialism is monopoly, which from which its parasitic and decomposition and agonizing character arises. That is why he described it as the phase of the general crisis of capitalism and transition.
Specifically, the different governments of the United States (USA) have failed inside and outside. Understand how the contradiction is presented: the monopolies generated by financial capital have centralized and accumulated more and more capital and, therefore, its power is immensely greater in the metropolis itself and in the world. Yankee imperialism is the biggest monopolist of the moment and that is why the most parasitic, lives to exploit the entire world, which has led to the fact that in the last 50 years production in the country itself decays, economic life in the country decays, it happens as to the ancient Rome of its sinking, which lived at the expense of what its provinces of Egypt, Palestine, etc.
That trend, which we have just referred to the preceding paragraph, affects imperialism in general and, in particular, Yankee imperialism and is irreversible. The increase in productivity in imperialist countries acts as counter-trend; But at the same time it leads to a new accumulation and centralization of capital, more monopoly and more parasitism. For example, the great advance in this field, which has meant the "era of the Internet and AI", has resulted in the economy on services and the greater accumulation and centralization of the large monopolies based on Silicon Valley, below we refer to this. Thus we see how imperialism is inconvenient more for its own internal contradictions and the struggle of the oppressed peoples and nations against imperialism and their lackeys progress shocking the entire order of oppression and exploitation of imperialism, accelerating its decomposition and bars.
Everything is leading to imperialism to a dead end
Today is more in force than ever established by Maoism:
The manifold irreconcilable contradictions which beset the imperialist countries both internally and externally are like volcanoes constantly threatening the rule of monopoly capital. The imperialist countries are stepping up the armaments race and doing their best to militarize their national economies. All this is leading imperialism into an impasse. The brain trusts of the imperialists have produced plan after plan to save their masters from the fate that is now confronting them or will confront them, but they have been unable to find for imperialism a real way out of its predicament.
The world revolution is in its strategic offensive and imperialism in its strategic defensive, corresponds to the proletariat led by its Communist Party to direct it.
The measures of the Biden government and the speeches of the genocidal Trump, during the electoral campaign and in the government, their own slogan to manipulate the mass of "MAGA", are the political proof of what we support. The US governments of this century, both of the PD and the PR, have failed in their attempt to reactivate the economic life of the country, a strategic basis of their hegemony on the World. Both Bush Jr., and Obama and Biden's, and Trump's first government have failed, they have not been able to find a real exit to their situation. An implosible historical and political, therefore, imperialism was imposed, once again, as a need to change posts.
The reflection in the subjective plane, of what we have just said, is seen in the consensus among the reactionary politicians on this side of the Atlantic, that the failure of the Democratic Party in the November 2024 elections has not been a problem of the candidate Harris, secondary issue, but mainly due to the failure of the PD in the government. This time it touched the failure to the faction of imperialism represented by said party and its policy under the command of the imperialist state, led by the financial oligarchy (both factions). Failure of one of his features at the head of imperialism, which is imposed as a need to change horses and politics.
View things like this, the Trump government responds to that need for Yankee imperialism in the face of the failure of the PD under the command of the imperialist state, both internally and externally, it needs to respond to this situation in search of maintaining its global hegemony and facing the new challenges and dangers that are presented to it. This new government is departing sentenced to failure, its first measures until the current one of April 4 progress harvesting more problems.
STATE REACCIONARIZATION IS A NEED FOR IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IS REACTION THROUGHOUT THE LINE IN INTERNAL AND EXTERIOR POLITICS
The faction of state monopoly capitalism in the US is politically represented by the PD and the particular monopoly faction by the PR. President or legislators, governors, etc. They serve one or another faction of imperialism, and since imperialism is reaction throughout the line, there is no progressive faction (liberal, so some bourgeois historians), or another conservative faction. This denomination corresponded to the era of the development of capitalism in its first phase.
Biden protectionism applied against its imperialist allies and rivals, is not abandoned with Trump but takes a more open and shameless form. This has its explanation not only in individual differences, which are indisputable, but to a large extent to the differences of interest between both factions and their representatives, one will also be represented as the highest bureaucrat, using the name of the State and the “anti-monopoly” standards to deceive and benefit the particular monopolies. That is why at the international level, despite the fact that there is no greater fundamental difference in imperialist policy, the representatives of this faction are presented as respectful of the institutions and norms of international law when it suits them, but when they do not leave them aside or violate it by resorting to the trap that is in the same international agreements or treaties that gave them life. This has proceeded Yankee imperialism from the moment that the new international order arose after World War II was established, proceed that it becomes more shameless and aggressive since the beginning of the 90s with the wars of Iraq, Jugoslav and the agreements “on security in Europe” from the bankrupt of Russian socialimperialism, continuing the whole decade, emboldened by its condition of unique hegemonic superpower. The President Gonzalo in the II Plenary of the CC in 1991 that Yankee imperialism has questioned the sovereignty of the countries, with this the same reaction calls into question the State. But, of this, as of 2001 with the Patriot Act and the so -called "War on Terrorism" outside all the so -called Institutions and Standards of International Law until now with the genocidal war of Yankee imperialism and Zionism against the Palestinian people and peoples and nations of the Middle East expanded. All with agreement of both parties and all their governments.
What we have just said, does not mean that there are no interest differences between both party and the features they represent (collusion and struggle). For example, in the problem of centralization of power in the Executive (presidential absolutism) the thing has developed like this: in the government of John F. Kennedy and Lindon B. Johnson the Democrats concentrated more and more power in the president, at the expense Except when Carter was president, then with Reagan and Bush Senior they returned to the streets and that same procedure have observed both mafias until today. This shows its reactionary essence and that the reacting of the State is a need for imperialism.
The representatives of the faction of the particular monopoly capital, in this case of the Republican party, proclaim to be for the "freedom of the individual" and of the "free company", while cutting and suppressing individual freedoms and rights and are for the monopolies regime, are for the full freedom for particular monopolies. Representatives of the particular monopoly capital faction, in this case the Republican Party, are in favor of "individual freedom" ("against Stalinist control," Vance said at the Munich Security Conference) and "free enterprise," that is, of complete freedom for particular monopolies.
In this regard, the great discussion during the first Clinton Government has a anecdotal value, on a new telecommunication law, to modify the Federal Radio Act in force since 1927. Republican representatives argued that the “regulation was fine for the time of industrialization but not for the era based on knowledge, which did not admit any regulation”. Logically, the other faction was for the intervention of the State in the world of communications and the nascent Internet,
Clinton signed on February 8, 1996, the new law that dis-regulated telecommunications. Eliminating the New Deal standards, which prohibited mergers from the companies of the branch, allowing the fusion of telecommunication companies and prohibiting internet regulations. The inventions and basic investigation that made it possible were funded by the imperialist state, by taxes. It is good to study the historical facts and characters of different levels that participated in favor and against the control of the activity of the telecommunication and the Internet companies, among the latter the self -denominated “Libertarians of the Internet” appeared and others “the utopists of the Internet”, behind all of which were the monopolies and the World Bank. This swordsman of financial capital were contrary to all State intervention on the Internet in the name of the Sacred Freedom of the individual. The other faction financed the patterns of these "utopists." Clinton's government, responding to the need for Yankee imperialism, in collusion with the other faction left this activity without regulation, leading to this immense technical progress to centralize in the hands of the great monopolists such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. In this way, freedom of expression, freedom of business is nothing other than the freedom of the great monopolies of the Internet or AI, read "The five magnificent."
Trump as a representative of the imperialist faction of particular monopolies is their high subjective expression to the maximum, because it feels like a member of that oligarchy as real estate. As such is invested with the power to kick the board and ignores all institutions and standards based on "negotiating superiority." He openly shows these days as a representative of the unique hegemonic superpower, in the political, economic and military. But, we repeat, it is not only with Trump that Yankee imperialism violates international norms, in this case, to apply "American protectionism" against "allies and rivals."
To refer only to the last sections of this story, we will say that it is practiced from the first Trump government (2017-2021) and continues with Biden, but in one way and, now, it occurs with this new Trump government in a more open way and without measuring the consequences it already has for the US economy. The imperialists of Europe and Asia know this and to have better letters in the negotiation, they expect Trump's measures against them to have an impact on the US themselves to seriously negotiate not only customs rates but everything else that the “uncle Sam” is brought under his sleeve. In this, the EU (Germany) and social -imperialist China try to coordinate their response, while an appeasement and the other of the contestant. The character of this contradiction is of inter imperialist contradiction of the second level, that is, between the Yankee imperialist superpower and the other imperialist powers. The consequences will be charged to the masses around the world, starting with that of the country itself.
BOTH FACTIONS PRACTICE STATE INTERVENTION IN THE ECONOMY FOR THE BENEFIT OF PARTICULAR MONOPOLIES
Lenin said that once the monopoly arises there are no natural or artificial barriers that may stop it, thus historically condemning anti-monopoly laws. The Communist Party of China in March 1963 described it as of great deception to transfer great benefits to monopolies. Lenin, in his work The imperialism upper phase of capitalism (1916) gives us a series of examples of what we have said. For our part, an example, the great bank bankruptcies and mortgages of the 2007-2009 crisis. A great scam and deception between them and mainly against the great mass of citizens worldwide. Bush and Obama resorted with 8 billion of state money to rescue the entities that, due to the fraud of all kinds, triggered the global financial crisis without sanctioning any of those responsible for this fraud, under the slogan "too big to fall." His critics stamped him as “privatization of profits and socialization of losses”. The broken monopoly companies were rescued and, once sanitized, years later the Government of the imperialist state returned them to the activity of the particular monopolies.
In the Marxist theory, this is clear, as we read in the following quotes:
Whether a bourgeois state pursues a policy of grabbing colonies or of contending for world supremacy, a policy of free trade or of protective tariffs, every such policy constitutes state intervention in economic life, which bourgeois states have long practiced in order to protect the interests of their bourgeoisie. Such intervention has played an important role in the development of capitalism.
(…) Concentration of capital results in monopoly. From World War I onward, world capitalism has not only taken a step further towards monopoly in general but also taken a step further away from monopoly in general to state monopoly. After World War I, and particularly after the economic crisis broke out in the capitalist world in 1929, state-monopoly capitalism further developed in all the imperialist countries. During World War II, the monopoly capitalists in the imperialist countries on both sides utilized
state-monopoly capital to the fullest possible extent in order to make high profits out of the war. And since the War, state-monopoly capital has actually become the more or less dominant force in economic life in some imperialist countries.
(…) State-monopoly capitalism is monopoly capitalism in which monopoly capital has merged with the political power of the state. Taking full advantage of state power, it accelerates the concentration and aggregation of capital, intensifies the exploitation of the working people, the devouring of small
and medium enterprises, and the annexation of some monopoly capitalist groups by others, and strengthens monopoly capital for international competition and expansion. Under the cover of “state intervention in economic life” and “opposition to monopoly,” and using the name of the state to deceive, it cleverly transfers huge profits into the pockets of the monopoly groups by underhand methods” (More on the Differences Between Comrade Togliatti and Us, Some Important Problems of Leninism in Modern Times, Editorial in the Hongqi (Red Flag) magazine, Beijing, March 1963).
As we have said, the imperialist faction represented by the Democratic Party focuses on the State as the main lever for moving the economy, "as they approach their end, the bourgeois class as a unit assumes productive functions through the State" (Marx). The economic intervention of this faction benefits the other faction, the financial oligarchy faction represented by the Democratic Party, which relies on capital and private monopolies as the main lever for moving the economy. Because, when the State invests or implements protectionist measures, as we will see in the report that refers to Biden's "new US productive development policy" with the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act, then we are faced with one of the ways in which the faction that relies on capital and private monopolies benefits. This corresponds to state monopoly capitalism, which, according to Lenin, occurs at a certain point in the process of imperialism, where the union of state power with the immense power of the private monopolies generated by finance capital occurs, around the time of World War I.
The function of the faction represented by the PD is to serve its enemy, to strengthen the financial oligarchy faction represented by the PR, as Maoism says:
“ By taking full advantage of state power, it accelerates the concentration and accumulation of capital, intensifies the exploitation of working people, the takeover of small and medium-sized enterprises, and the takeover of some monopoly capitalist groups by others, and strengthens monopoly capital for international purposes, competition, and expansion”.
And, crushing and sweeping modern revisionism in the head of one of its representatives, the renegade Togialti, establishes the following law:
"The facts presented above make it clear that the state monopoly and private monopoly are, in fact, two ways that support each other used by monopoly capitalists for the extraction of enormous profits. The development of the monopolist capital of state aggravates the contradictions inherent to the imperialist system and can never, as Togliatti and the other comrades," limit and break the power of the large monopolist groups, " (Thesis for the X Congress of the PCI) or change the contradictions inherent in imperialism. ” (document cited above).
In this document we have clearly exposed the two forms used by the monopoly (imperialist) capitalists, which determines the two factions in the different imperialist countries, which as the document says, aggravates the contradictions inherent in imperialism, these two factions are in contradiction, which is developed in collusion and struggle between them. The faction of state monopoly capitalism in the US is politically represented by the PD and the particular monopoly faction by the PR. President or legislators, governors, etc. They serve one or another faction of imperialism, and since imperialism is reaction throughout the line, there is no progressive faction (liberal, so some bourgeois historians), or another conservative faction. This denomination corresponded to the era of the development of capitalism in its first phase.
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