Creation: Proletarian Liberation Struggle Association Historical Materialism Group
On November 19th, local time, Trump announced the nomination of Wall Street financier Kantor Fitzgerald and Howard Lutnick, owner of BGC Group, as U.S. Secretary of Commerce. The function of the Commerce Department in the United States is to facilitate communication between the U.S. government and private capital enterprises, and to represent the interests of the entire bourgeoisie in external business activities. In the past, the visit of Commerce Secretary Raimondo under the Biden administration to China was ridiculed by Chinese pinks, but Raimondo, who represents capitalist interests, was not a direct Wall Street billionaire. However, the Commerce Department, which should nominally represent the “U.S. government” and maintain a “neutral” position, is actually being dominated by a capitalist, which can be described as “self-dealing.” This is a sharp mockery of the U.S. bourgeoisie’s long-standing boast of “separation of powers” and “American-style democracy.” In bourgeois terms, it is now called a “constitutional crisis.”
Lutnick’s appointment is not isolated but connected to a series of events. Not only is Trump himself a monopolist capitalist, but Trump’s biggest capitalist supporter, Elon Musk, the richest person in the U.S. and the world, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, co-founder of Strive Asset Management and brother-in-law of U.S. Vice President Vance, was previously nominated by Trump as the head of the new U.S. department “Department of Government Efficiency”. Although the department’s powers are currently unclear, based on available information, it is speculated that it will have considerable influence over the U.S. government’s national budget, which means they will have significant control over the U.S. treasury. Additionally, another of Trump’s monopolist supporters, Linda McMahon, wife of Vince McMahon, was nominated by Trump as the U.S. Secretary of Education. Compared to Biden’s cabinet, Trump’s cabinet is filled with large capitalists who run their own industries and are directly appointed to departments related to their interests.
The reason Trump openly shows that his current U.S. government will serve bourgeois interests is deeply rooted. As the class struggle in the U.S. sharpens, the Democratic Party’s “diversity” deceptive policies have long since collapsed. History has proven that Barack Obama, the Black president, did not represent Black masses’ interests; Indian-American Vice President Harris did not represent Indian-American or working women’s interests; and various minority groups and LGBT individuals are merely hypocritical priests serving the interests of U.S. monopolist capitalists as running dogs. After Biden’s government massively creates inflation, openly supports fascist atrocities committed by Israeli reactionaries, and brutally suppresses American supporters of Palestine and other progressives, the American people have long seen through the reactionary nature of the Democratic Party. Therefore, when Obama loudly promoted voting for Harris, who “understood” and “related” to them based on their similar backgrounds, the American people angrily condemned “Obama has never done anything for Black people,” “Harris doesn’t understand” the suffering of Black masses, “Deceive me once, shame on you; deceive me twice, shame on myself.” Although this does not mean that the American people will support fascist Trump, Harris’s disgrace has exposed her as a paper tiger—losing the 2024 presidential election with many Democratic financial backers and politicians switching support to Trump, resulting in her losing with a vote count of 226 to 312. How unpopular the Democratic Party is has become very obvious.
The American people have long been tired of Biden and Harris’s lies, and American capitalists are also dissatisfied with Biden’s inability to suppress the masses and maintain the U.S. capitalist system, wishing to replace the ineffective Biden and Harris with a “more powerful” presidential candidate—Trump. With the support of many capitalists, Trump was elected as the new president, and in the face of intense class struggle, he will inevitably peel away the veneer of bourgeois democracy and increasingly reveal the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Previously, Trump had already concentrated the “three powers in one” through election, Congress, and judicial appointments, contemptuously dismissing the U.S. “democratic system,” and now appointing openly capitalist ministers further proves that “practical” capitalists will replace “incompetent” bourgeois politicians to better execute the will of the entire bourgeoisie. The current “constitutional crisis” in the U.S. clearly demonstrates that the objective law of class struggle does not change with human will. No matter how much bourgeois liberals or other bourgeois defenders praise the “stability” of so-called “American democracy,” it will inevitably be abolished by the bourgeoisie through fierce popular struggle, replaced by increasingly fascist brutal repression. Similarly, Trump and the American monopolist bourgeoisie have greatly miscalculated. They think that strengthening dictatorship and replacing the worn-out “freedom and democracy” banner with the fascist slogan “Make America Great Again” is clever, but in reality, they are just paper tigers like Biden and Harris. Wherever there is oppression, there will be resistance. The American people heroically defeated the fascist coup attempt of American fascists ninety years ago, forced the unpopular Trump to step down four years ago, and now will fiercely oppose the re-emergent Trump. Trump’s idolization of Hitler has long ended in Berlin’s bunker, and he is nailed to the shameful column of history. The Chinese fascist Xi Jinping, whom he praised, is also entangled internally and externally. If he dares to turn the U.S. into a fascist hell, his fate will not be much better than theirs. No matter how tortuous the future anti-fascist struggle in the U.S. is, the American people will ultimately achieve victory. Trump and his ilk can come and go, but the American people are always the American people!
