In a class-based system like capitalism, the state (cops, courts, military, ICE, etc.) exists to maintain the rule of one class over another, in this case the capitalist class. American neo-liberalism has served the capitalists’ interests well for the last few decades, but it is no longer. They need to tighten their grip because they are losing ground economically (to China, specifically).

This is when you see every effort to divide (weaken) and repress the working masses. Minoritized people and leftists are the first to be repressed - they are easy targets because the capitalists and the media outlets spend billions propagandizing the working masses to turn against these groups. This is when you see right wing reaction - as we are seeing now, not just in the US, but in many of the capitalist countries that are allies with US imperialism. This is a cycle that keeps repeating in every capitalist crisis.

It is in the interests of the whole working class - internationally - to recognize this tactic used to divide the working masses (which will lead to even lower quality of life for all) and to instead stand up against this repression and to defend people on the receiving end of US Imperialist aggression, whether this be workers, minorities, and/or countries (Iran, Cuba, etc.).

Not nearly enough.

When you have an economy that isn’t capitalist, you can plan it…and extracting surplus value from workers isn’t necessary. You can automate your industries without destroying the quality of life of the people….in fact, you improve it because people can work less.

It really is that capitalism has exhausted its usefulness and ability to advance society. It is now socialism or barbarism.

Maybe the workers at Toyota, Ford and Honda should take control of these plants. They would run it better without the capitalist leeches squeezing out every ounce of profits into their own pockets.

Only serve the army of the working class.

Exactly, comrade

This is because of all of the individualism that is fostered and perpetuated to keep people vulnerable and afraid. It will eventually reach a tipping point and the working class will fight back.

We literally have nothing left to lose but our chains.

The US working class would have to mobilize serious strike action across the country to win universal healthcare. The capitalists don’t want their private property (companies, businesses) within the field of healthcare socialized. The working class can do it though. When organized and led by a revolutionary program and leadership, the working class can start to call the shots. All workers need to ditch the capitalist parties (dems and republicans) and support class independent parties and mobilize their power outside of the bourgeois political system.

They were successful in 1917. This is worth studying!

The first step is to build a unified movement, rooted in the working class, that builds a revolutionary consciousness.

Leftists in various parties/orgs need to unite around some basic principles and fight together. We need to unite around agreements while we continue to hash out differences for clarity regarding the way forward. Both can happen at the same time.

To not unite around agreements is to be sectarian, and this is castrating the power of the left….in addition to some parties and orgs actively pushing a liberal agenda, doing nothing but helping to build illusions that the bourgeois parties will work in the interest of the working class.

The working class has all the leverage we need…. We literally make the world run with our labor, and the world does not run without it. We do need leadership, but independent of the labor bureaucrats, most of whom sell us out or limits our class struggle. Workers can form their own committees within their unions to start mobilizing their power.

Organize committees in work places and represent as labor. Don’t wait for the union leaders who stifle the power of labor for their own gain any chance they get. The working class needs to take this into our own hands as a class…not as individuals.

The ruling class has always made sure their spaces are safe. They control all of the machines of propaganda.

Only the imperialists have the right to self-determination. None of the rest of us….and that includes the workers within the imperial core.

The bourgeoisie does not care if the working class dies so long as they are maximizing profits and continuing to expand their ownership.

The dictator and criminal is US imperialism and all of the mini-imperialist countries. The system that demands the type of behavior, and that causes the world to suffer remains fully in tact after this figurehead who is a particularly distasteful ruler is no longer. This isn’t just a Trump problem….as terrible as he is.

At least the ruling class isn’t hiding behind diplomacy anymore while they rape and pillage the world. They are showing their true colors in their political and economic wars and in their personal behaviors (Epstein).

There is no leadership that can make a system designed from the ground up to screw workers and minorities in order to enrich billionaires work in the interests of workers and minorities. You can’t reform rot.

Exactly. Not only clearer, broader, more ambitious goals, but also a different strategy. Protests allow you to meet people, but refusing labor causes the rulers to respond.

It requires a planned socialized economy so that the robots are programmed to help the masses, not programmed to help protect the private property and endless enrichment of the capitalist class.