I spent an hour yesterday listening to these French " yellow vest " protesters on You Tube clips.. This is clearly a profound crisis of French capitalist society, the most dramatic since 1968.
" We’re here because we have absolutely had enough of this government, we want it to quit and we want power to go to the people.”
Revolutions begin in the hearts of the oppressed. Display tables of Marxist literature can help - offering the collective class conscious wisdom of past and present socialist working class parties and organizations.
Above all, the French working class and the ruined French middle class must not be misled by the traitorous pseudo-Left.
The revolutionary spirit evident in the famous streets of Paris will spread to other European countries and even to the United States.
Only fools here will associate HOPE for the future with Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer- now all neo-con war mongers and pillars of Apartheid Israel( no problem with that Zionist WALL ) and promoters of the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism.
" Identity politics " will not power a Blue Wave in 2020. And they are incapable of principled CLASS STRUGGLE politics.
And yet the word we hear weirdly associated with " liberal " Democrats on right wing radio is the most frightening one to plutocrats : SOCIALISM.
A little confusion here perhaps : while, of course, SOCIALISM " can't work " CAPITALISM doesn't work for the vast majority of working class people.
The real socialists must tell the whole world that this tiny arrogant minority has no right to own the world, that there is something very morally illegitimate about " legitimate " wealth, and this whole system of private property and production for profit. Once the glitter, the divine aura, wears off the plutocrats , they will know that the only " protection " they have is their beloved POLICE .
Presently in Rhode Island they are dressing up " Officer Friendly " as Santa Claus handing out presents to " underprivileged "kids .
In France they are probably handing them out yellow vests for Christmas presents
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