Tariffs and currency controls/devaluations and capital controls are all good things. They help in bringing back manufacturing and reversing the deindustrialization of the West that has been the biggest cause of decline in working class standard of living.
The period of 1970s-2020s which was characterized by outsourcing, deindustrialization, financialization, and mass immigration are coming to an end, and the working class will be the biggest beneficiary of this.
The workers in 3rd world countries will benefit as well, as they will be forced by Western protectionism to adopt their own protectionist policies, leading to greater worldwide industrialization and increase in sovereignty.
Therefore, opposing Trump is historically regressive, anti-communist, and anti-worker.
>retards rediscover accelerationism AGAIN
god i hate it here
READ MARX
>>2706761>bringing back manufacturingWhere?
Manufacturing only brings 10-20 jobs per factory because they’re so automated, you can’t sustain entire towns on manufacturing anymore
>They help in bringing back manufacturing and reversing the deindustrialization of the West that has been the biggest cause of decline in working class standard of living.
This is good only if you are a socialdemocrat (capitalist)
If these measures were more systematic and long-scale planned they may be considered a very peculiar form of State-led capitalist developmentalism a la Lee Kuan Yew taking place in the most developed capitalist country. I tend to believe the measures are too mild and discoordinated for that to be the case. Either way,
>Therefore, opposing Trump is historically regressive, anti-communist, and anti-worker.
We don't oppose Trump's State interventionism because we are against State interventionism, we oppose it because it's being done in favour of the bourgeoisie. Tariffs, currency controls etc are tools, you can't be for or against tools, what matters is who (what class) is using them. In this case they are being used for strenghtening the petty bourgeois, so this is just another bourgois administration for us.
Moreover,
>and the working class will be the biggest beneficiary of this
Even if Trump were able to put up a succesful protectionist economy (which I doubt), this is only true on a local scale. For every worker that gets a better job on country A due to it's protectionist policies, there will be a worker fired on country B due to it's shrinking market. On a global scale this is ultimately a zero-sum game on which the worker class as a whole is not benefited. In other words, the question of protectionism is only another facet of the competition between capitalists nations and not a real economic development like a new technology or a new organization of the social relations of production; only the latter has ever brought true, long-lasting and global benefits to the working class as a whole.
>>2706762>>2707205every single student in that video became a trump boomer