Remember that a lot of those lying sock puppets who claim to deny climate change do know better. I think Trump's obsessions about Greenland and Canada are involved with the more short-sighted capitalist interest in the opening of new shipping routes it the Arctic. Can't we just hear Musk explaining this to Trump? Maybe with little stick figure cartoons?
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM John Edmundson via groups.io <johnedmundson4=gmail....@groups.io> wrote: > I've always tended to see the tariff vs free trade (Trump vs most others > in the neoliberal era) as an intercapitalist rivalry. None of them are > motivated by the interests of the working class and where they profess it, > it is jobs for "their" workers at the expense of jobs for other (eg > Chinese) workers. In this case it's compounded by the fact that Trump's > motivation seems as much to show his voters that he is willing to stick it > to the foreigners, as he promised he would, as to actually produce jobs. > > Comradely, > John > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, 14:38 sartesian via groups.io, <sartesian= > earthlink....@groups.io> wrote: > >> Maybe DW, but you're assuming against all historical evidence, that >> capitalism is rational, and the bourgeoisie can impose boundaries on the >> irrationality that does erupt. >> > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34881): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34881 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110822147/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
