July 2017 – Unity & Struggle

#Crisis, Austerity & Social Reproduction

Morbid Symptoms: Conclusions

July 12, 2017November 1, 2018

This is the last in our series of posts about the Trump regime. Part one can be found here, and part two is here. We have argued that Trump’s election represents a deepening impasse in neoliberalism, and that this impasse results from a systemic crisis in capitalism. As capital works to counteract falling profit rates

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After his disillusionment with Black Power politics in Newark in the 1970s, Amiri Baraka turned to equally dogmatic Marxist-Leninism. But in the process he produced some scathing poetry on the nature of the new black elite.

HISTORY ON WHEELS, 1975

Civil Rights
included Nathan
and the rest
of them, who got in america
big shotting off the agony
a class of blue Bloods, hip
to the swing and sway of
the usa. yeh all the 1st
negroes world wide, joined
knees, and shuffled heroically
into congress, city hall, the
anti-p program, and a thousand
penetrable traps of cookstove
america. a class of exploiters,
in black face, collaborators,
not puppets, pulling their own
strings, and ours too, in the
poor people's buck dance, w/o
the bux. But see, then later,
you talkin afrika, and its unity
like a giant first of iron, smashing
"racialism," around the world. But see
that fist, any first, reared back to
strike an enemy, shd strike the real
enemy. Not a colorless shadow for
black militants in residence, to
bloat the pockets and consolidate
the power of an international
bourgeoisie. In rag time, slanting
stick legs, with a pocket full of
toasted seaweed, and a bibliography
of bitter neocapitalists or bohemian
greys, celebrating life in a dark garage
w/ all cars banned until the voodoo car
appear. The way the rich blackies showed
after we marched and built their material
base, now n*****s are left in the middle
of the panafrikan highway, babbling about
eternal racism, and divine white supremacy
a hundred thousand dollar a year oppression
and now the intellectualization, the militant
resource of the new class, its historical
valorization. Between them, john johnson
and elijah, david rockefeller rests his
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