Recent content by Trotsky's Spectre

How would we know this? Maybe citizens behold the institutions and processes of state, including elections, with well-deserved contempt. Perhaps they conclude that the process is essentially alien to them. Maybe they regard successive slates of candidates as criminals meriting not election but...

Those conditions were as class-riven and driven as ours are today. Union leadership dutifully aligned itself with the bourgeoisie and betrayed the working class. How Trotsky merits a pick axe in the ear for saying this eludes me. But that's immaterial. We are at a later stage of...

Trump may be whacked, but major chaos is the agenda either way -- presuming that there is a national election. And if so, some will indeed follow. -- Trotsky's Spectre --

Yes! And there is is -- indicated clearly by the pixels on your computer screen! Canada! And no -- you didn't say 'Canada.' Yet your assertion of the well-being of the non-existent proletarian/working class, is contradicted by massive socio-economic catastrophe. 30 million lost their jobs. 20%...

I'm going to assume that I don't need to explain the metaphor and that you understand full well that I am indicating your refusal to acknowledge the reality of class struggle. Ruling by fiat that there is no proletariat, you grant that. This also means that there can be no working class struggle...

JoeB131: I seriously owe you! 'Thank-you so much for this most apt demonstration that the 90% has NOTHING invested in the Democrat Party! If you have any more great ones, feel free to pass them along! Thanks again. buddy! -- Trotsky's Spectre --

Really? Did I not explain that the investment class IS the petty bourgeoisie which IS the Democrat Party? From the comfort of your gated community, you speak of the working class is if it is a neighbour. It is not. You are worlds apart. Many things in Europe turned out differently than Marx...

Trotsky addressed nothing in a 'silly way.' I on the other hand try to accommodate myself to the political education of the US citizen. That is also something Trotsky would never do. I wasn't aware anyone here had read Trotsky. On other matters you address, so far as you go Trots would take no...

Mac1958: '...leverage class to push their larger racial agenda.' Perhaps I ought to have posted this first ... 'Class' derives from Karl Marx' insight that under the Capitalist system, society is organized into three social classes based on relationship with the system of production. You...

JoeB131: As I explain in my reply to Mac1958, this continues my reply to him while also engaging your point that: ‘She lost because too many white people who normally do the right thing and vote democratic voted for third parties, and because Black folks stayed home in 2016.’ Like the...

‘The issue of race is the constant, and IS imposed on virtually every other issue or news item whenever possible, no matter how much of a stretch it takes.’ So we agree then. And what you say here is offered as description, NOT prescription. Got it. At issue now is the rationale for doing so...

Agreed! And the US' 'rags to riches' bourgeoisie bedtime story is insignificant statistically. -- Trotsky's Spectre --

Greetings, JolB131: A novice, I'm not in position to make determinations about who is what. I'll giving Mac1958 time and opportunity to clarify on the point I've raised. I affirm the Marxist interpretation of history. That constitutes me 'left.' What is usually labeled 'left' is [as I see it]...

But if such graphs [as we discussed] superimpose race on given issues [or perhaps better – interpret given issues through the lens of race], how is that not imposing a racial narrative on whatever issue is protested in the manner I said? The thing is -- if you’re going to cite this as a 'game'...