If we're Marxists we should understand that the enormous blood machine of US imperialism will not be, and has not been, held back in any way by the figurehead's mental decline.
Agreed, this is only a stop gap measure. But if "harm reduction" is really the name of the game here, materially Trump causes less "harm" abroad than a standard President.
Yo, your argument makes some sense and I can’t say I really know which presidency might be marginally preferable to the other, but for the love of god, stop pretending that using the word “materially” transforms your argument into Marxist analysis.
You’re just doing a sort of rough cost/benefit analysis based on observation of the personalities involved, you’re not applying any sort of dialectical logic and you’re not grounding your analysis in the class forces at play or the material conditions in the Marxist sense of the term.
If we're Marxists we should understand that the enormous blood machine of US imperialism will not be, and has not been, held back in any way by the figurehead's mental decline.
Agreed, this is only a stop gap measure. But if "harm reduction" is really the name of the game here, materially Trump causes less "harm" abroad than a standard President.
Yo, your argument makes some sense and I can’t say I really know which presidency might be marginally preferable to the other, but for the love of god, stop pretending that using the word “materially” transforms your argument into Marxist analysis.
You’re just doing a sort of rough cost/benefit analysis based on observation of the personalities involved, you’re not applying any sort of dialectical logic and you’re not grounding your analysis in the class forces at play or the material conditions in the Marxist sense of the term.
I'm not trying to do a Marxist analysis in the sense of dialectical analysis or anything like that, but Marx takes particular care to specify that we have to look at real world conditions, not ideology to analyze events. Marx states himself, "As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must distinguish still more the phrases and fancies of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality." Ideology can be distracting, especially in this sense, for we can't look at what Trump or Biden say but what they do. The real interests of the Biden camp are different than the Trump camp, as they represent different wings of the bourgeoisie (something I have elaborated on previously). That's the point I'm trying to make here, and that's why I say "material" to clue folks in that this is indeed a materialist way to look at the world.
Amazing how it gives their game away. The other is "blame capitalism for everything."