Art by Stephen Marche for Foreign PolicyThanks for reading Rainer’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The class conflict within this country is close to crossing a pivotal threshold. This is the threshold where our workers movement becomes too independent from the Democratic Party for it to any longer be sufficiently held back by reformism and opportunism. The question of whether the people can end our society’s appalling class inequality by taking over the Democratic Party has already been answered. By rigging the 2016 and 2020 primaries, the DNC proved twice that it’s capable of shoving out pro-worker candidates, so now the proletariat has no choice but to embrace the revolutionary option. That was always our only choice of course, but these events have demonstrated how reformism isn’t a viable alternative.
Goddamn, US “defense” companies are so greedy they’ll rip their own country just for extra bucks.