Is The US Headed Towards Fascism?（雙語 bilingual）美國正在走向法西斯主義嗎？
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Transcript Second thought is a 100% viewer funded operation. If you'd like to help support the channel and get some great perks while you're at it, consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/crashcourse [Music] Memories of Easter egg hunts with my family and now that I have a young daughter of my own, I'm excited to give her the same experience so imagine my surprise when we go to the neighborhood playground on Easter and there are a handful of adults trying to keep kids from picking up a bunch of eggs seemed a little weird so I asked one of them what was going on and they said better not to look inside so naturally I had to look inside. Here's what I found: [Music] Even for someone who keeps tabs on these freaks for a living, this was a little shocking. We live in a quiet suburb. There's never any trouble and yet here we were standing somewhere designed for children to play picking up Easter eggs with fascist rhetoric inside and if you think about it, this one little Easter egg is indicative of the whole fascist undercurrent in the US. Let's unpack what's going on here. I think we should start with a quick rundown of the the proud boys and the other fascist groups in the US, because the state of official fascist organizations has changed over the last few years. The proud boys are an exclusively male hate group operating in the US and Canada besides their deeply funny no girls allowed rule, these losers are big proponents of the white genocide myth - the idea that white people, a designation that seems to fluctuate whenever convenient, are being replaced by encroaching hordes of nebulously ethnic babies. The group has been described as an alt-right fight Club conservative extremists altl overtly Islamophobic and misogynistic and all too willing to embrace racists anti-Semites and bigots of all kinds they've engaged in political violence attended the January 6th Insurrection and have been banned from pretty much every social media platform. Officially the Canadian arm of the organization was shut down after being rightly labeled a terrorist group. The Proud boys were established in 2016, spearheaded by Gavin McKinnis, one of the co-founders of Vice over the next few years they went through a handful of leaders, the most recent being this guy - Enrique Tario who in 2023 was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the Insurrection, too is a Miami Cuban which tells you pretty much all you need to know as far as his politics goes, but it came out during his trial that he was also an informant for the feds which led to a Schism in the proud boys who just couldn't believe that one of their own would work for the evil government, got to love how naïve these people are, when the judge delivered the sentence, Tario begged the court: please show me mercy, I ask that you'd not take my 40s from me that's how quickly the tough guy act crumbles. As of right now, the proud boys seem to be in disarray. They get kicked from every platform they try to organize and a bunch of their members got locked up after January 6th and they seem more than a little spooked that they got infiltrated by the feds. A handful of State branches have said they won't acknowledge any national leadership and they're just kind of doing their own thing so with any luck the organization will die out. That doesn't mean their remaining members aren't dangerous though, so keep that in mind. Besides the proud boys, we've got the Oath keepers, the three percenters Patriot front and Patriot prayer. The three percenters are the oldest group on the list, the organization was founded in 2008. If you live in Texas like I do you've probably seen 3er bumper stickers - the name comes from the assumption that 3% of a given country's population is enough to overthrow the government. The group was officially dissolved in 2021 after January 6th, then you'll start notice a trend that there a bunch of its members were thrown in jail and once again Canada labeled them a terrorist group like the proud boys. Local branches of the 3centers still remain active. The oath keepers are the next oldest founded just one year after the 3percenters. This is another antigovernmental but Pro Constitution group and tellingly its membership is 2/3 former military and police and 10% active duty best guesses as to their numbers hover around 5,000 people but the org itself claims to have a membership of 38,000. These thugs are known for showing up at protests, political rallies, and whatever events they determined to be woke armed with guns and with their faces covered. Once again a number of their high-ups are serving over a decade in prison for seduced conspiracy, though this group seems to have been more resilient than their cowardly counterparts; choosing not to shutter their operation in fact according to a data breach as of 2021, 48 state and local officials and 10 sitting State lawmakers were listed among the group's members. This would suggest a different approach from the other fascist cells, choosing to pursue electoral infiltration as opposed to strictly acts of Terror. The final two organizations significant enough to mention are Patriot front and Patriot prayer. They all love this Patriot stuff and we'll get to that in a bit. Patriot prayer was founded in 2016, in the suburbs of Washington state suburbs. That's another thing we'll talk about. Their whole stick is to harass liberal and left-wing groups in the Pacific Northwest and to get in street fights with anti-fascists which have often been filmed and upload and to inspire other budding fascists to get involved more physically according to an informant. There are only about 15 of these guys, they've just been really good at making a name for themselves because typically fascists are cowards who will scatter when it looks like a fight is coming. Finally, the youngest org on the list - Patriot front. This is another small organization but I bet you've heard more about them than some of the others, where the rest play koi and beat around the bush, these guys are explicit in their fascism, they've even got the fascine as part of their logo. If I had to guess which group would end up being the most influential in the fascist movement, it would be Patriot front. For a bunch of reactionaries, they're pretty good at branding combining traditional Americana with fascist symbolism in every successful past fascist movement that's been a key element it takes on the flavor of whatever culture it boils up in. You've probably heard the quote when fascism comes to America it'll be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. Case in point, Patriot front is another group that punch above its weight in terms of membership best estimates put the number at just 200 but they accounted for 82% of all incidents in 2021 that involve the distribution of fascist racist or otherwise bigoted propaganda in the US. If you zoom out a bit, this is all kind of interesting you've got your fraternity, your militias, your street thugs, and your propagandists that's a pretty well-developed fascist undercurrent, even if for now they seem to be licking their wounds what happens when they start organizing across the different groups. Speculation aside, the important thing to realize about American fascism is that it's not confined to this handful of explicitly fascist groups, it's become mainstream among the American Right. Let me give you an example. There's an unmilitary business owner, back during peak COVID, but it's not going to be peaceful much longer. Okay and this isn't a threat, I'm not a criminal, I've never been a criminal, but I'm telling you that good citizens are going to turn into real concerned and revolutionary citizens really soon and nobody else is going to say that I'm probably the only person that has a ball to say what I'm saying right now that we're building, we're organizing and we'll work with law enforcement or without law enforcement, but you won't stop us when time comes because our families are starving and if you don't hear the seriousness of my voice, I hope you open your ears and you absolutely listen to what I'm saying, because this is a warning for what's coming. It's not going to be peaceful much longer, it's not going to be Rah Rah, it's not going to be speeches, it's not going to be gathering outside saying Pledge of Allegiance, it's not going to be W from Flags or I require medical assistance. It's going to be real when you've seen the things that I've seen. I went to war for this country. I've seen the ugliest dirtiest part of humanity. I've been in combat and I never want to go back again, but I'm telling you what I will do to save this country, if it has to be against our own citizens, it will happen and there's a million people like me, and you won't stop us. It sounds pretty bad but this is exactly the type of person we saw at the Capital Riot. All the fascist groups were there at least 700 members of their organizations got arrested but they were a drop in the bucket compared to what most people would call average conservatives. Only around 13.3% of those charged in the capital riots were formal members of militant groups like The Proud boys, the 3percenters, and the oathkeepers. The remaining 87% were a mix of garden-variety Trump supporters and conservatives LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) as revolutionaries, the overwhelming majority of people who stormed the capital were just average Republicans and you can tell: they didn't look like the typical far-right extremists. They were typically older with around 2/3 being over 35, they were much less likely to be unemployed, a full 14% of the attendees charged were business owners and 30% were white collar workers, these aren't normal far-right extremist demographics. These are just Republican constituency demographics. That's why fascists target the suburbs, as we mentioned earlier, the aggrieved white middle class is ripe for radicalization, the average American conservative wants to overthrow the government to establish some weird anti-woke theocracy based on a mythologized version of the past. And don't take my word for it. They're literally advocating for it in their magnum opus "project 2025" which we made a video about a while back. Okay. Why is this happening? Conservatives have always been reactionary but what's changed in the last decade or so well there are a few factors. We'll start with a culture war issue - the white genocide myth - the "Great Replacement Theory" is a classic among fascists. It asserts that there is a plot which really means they think it's a Jewish thing that the white race and white culture, whatever that means, are disappearing because of immigration from majority non-white countries. Fascists believe this will cause some general persecution of white people because of course they can't imagine the world being run without one race subjugating another. This is the theory that motivated the Christ Church shooter Brenton Tarant and the El Paso shooter Patrick Crucius and it's both unfounded and blatantly fascist. You won't be surprised to learn that this theory has a historical trajectory that started in world War II AND ran through the European fascist movements, the American Nazi party and has now found a home among the majority of the Republican electorates. Here's a clip of Tucker Carlson endorsing the theory on Fox, calling it by name and likening it to Eugenics. Joe Biden just said that to change the racial mix of the country that's the reason to reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans newly arrived from the third world and then Biden went further by saying that nonwhite DNA is I quote: "source of our strength," imagine saying that this is the language of eugenics. It's horrifying but there's a reason Biden said it in political terms this policy is called the Great Replacement, the replacement of Legacy Americans with more obedient people from far away countries. They brag about it all the time but if you dare to say it's happening, they will scream at you with maximum hysteria and here do you have Joe Biden confirming his motive on tape with a smile on his face. This type of racist xenophobia isn't new. Every fascist project in history has needed to create a chosen people and a barbaric enemy to justify their anti-human politics. Even a cursory glance at any history book will make it clear where this trend comes from but why does it start in the first place? Human beings can be awfully distrustful people but just randomly deciding to build an exterminatory worldview out of their bigotry doesn't make much sense. We need to dig a little deeper and look beyond the Culture War to really understand the appeal of fascism. Socialism and fascism are both on the rise and it's pretty easy to see why beneath every movement is an economic catalyst. Fascism is seen as a solution to an economic problem just as socialism is, but the difference is that fascism does not threaten the primacy of capital or the comfortable position of the white liberal, a critical ally of fascist movements throughout history economic hardship, it creates conditions where bitterness, distrust and desperation can thrive making the masses an easy target for charismatic and bombastic fascists. Think back to that town hall video what did the guy say was the spark for their aggression not being able to feed their families and you know what that's a perfectly valid reason to be upset. The problem is the solution he and other fascists land on is to exterminate or deport anyone deemed to be detrimental to white people making money and keeping their privileged position or in their eyes prevent hardworking patriots from losing economic ground because their opportunities are being stolen by the petite bourgeoisie or as I like to call them the roofing class, small business owners, the guys who have a handful of contractors and pay 1,200 bucks a month on an F-150 Raptor that's never been used for any kind of manual labor. But I digress, I really try my best to understand fascist because it's an interesting phenomenon. What socialism offers in my opinion is a common sense solution to the ills of capitalism economic democracy - the people who do the work have a say in how the work is done and profits can't be siphoned off by unelected corporate tyrants. Fascism, on the other hand, has to create this elaborate fantasy to justify why one particular group of people is destined to inherit the earth and conveniently it's the people in your country and the group you happen to fall into is the same gripe I have with Calvinists. They believe that all humans are predestined to go to either heaven or hell and nothing we do can influence that destiny. I've never met a calvinist who believes they're going to hell. If I try really hard to check my basic human decency at the door, I can see why fascist mythology could be appealing. It lets you off the hook. It justifies the worst cruelties, because you are defending what is good and righteous from Human animals who want to tear down a beautiful civilization. The problem is the civilization that fascists claim to be defending has never existed. It's a myth there is no single white race. Just ask the Irish or the Italians or the Russians or the Ukrainians or the Jews who have all had their white card revoked or granted at some point. There is no period in American history where everything was great for the white working class. Every worker in this country has always been at the mercy of the elite, but not the elite that fascists assume are pulling the strings. It's not a shadowy cabal of woke Jews. It's just the people who own the means of production. They're not shy about it. People like Warren Buffett routinely admit there's a class war being waged and that the capitalist want to make sure that they win it. The Glorious Fascist Revolution is that what these self-proclaimed Patriots want is not revolutionary at all. It's just turning back the clock to a time where these class antagonisms were less apparent where the capitalist class still had complete control over society. But maybe black people had fewer rights. If that's your vision of Utopia you're a [ __ ] , you are risking decades in prison because you want to make sure the boot stays on your neck, because you like the lies the boot spouts while it's stepping on you. The Republicans love fascist because it's an ideology that maintains the economic status quo. They don't like it when their useful idiots try to lynch them, so people have to go to jail for that. But on the whole there's a reason the ruling class tolerates Fascism and not socialism. Socialism is genuinely revolutionary whereas fascism is just a cancerous offshoot of capitalism that can in their mind be used as a tool when needed. And this isn't the first time the ruling class has taken advantage of economic precarity. Once upon a time a group of super wealthy capitalists hatched a scheme to try to convince a group of vulnerable Americans to launch an insurrection and overthrow the government at which point the group of oligarchs would establish what amounted to a fascist dictatorship in the service of capital. It sounds a bit like January 6th. Doesn't this attempted coup was called the business plot? And it actually happened way back in 1933. The short version is that a retired General - Smedley Butler was approached by a would be financier who offered him funding and 500,000 men to lead an Insurrection to depose then president FDR. Roosevelt's election and subsequent economic reforms had horrified conservative businessmen who saw him as a socialist so naturally when given the choice between socialism and fascism, they overwhelmingly sided with fascism telling Butler they hoped to install him as an all powerful Secretary of General Affairs while Roosevelt would assume a figurehead role. Unfortunately for the plotters Butler ratted them out. In his later years, General Butler had come to support FDR and was a fairly outspoken critic of capitalism referring to his past self as a high-class muscle-in for Wall Street, the business plot failed. And it gives us a great example of how economic precarity can be weaponized to fascist ends. The capitalist understood that thousands of First World War veterans were disenchanted with the U.S., having not received their promised benefits and they figured if they could just get a popular willing leader to stoke the discontent into a fascist fervor, they'd have free reign of the country's economy, creating an unholy merger of capital and the state - a cornerstone of fascism. What we are seeing today has the same hallmarks of every other period, where fascism has grown in popularity, economic insecurity, the formation of fascist paramilitaries and a series of charismatic figures trying to tap into the rising tide of far-right populism for personal gain. While it's important to have empathy for people who are struggling economically and looking for answers, once someone chooses to become a fascist they are a threat, but it's also important to realize that these people are by and large losers and cowards. They talk a big game but they run away when faced with anti-fascist resistance, instead of getting up on a soap box like their Idols, they target children with hate speech and lurk online, they wear ridiculous outfits, complete with cardboard shields and, if we're being honest, most of these people don't really match the uber mensch archetype. At the end of the day they're pathetic reactionaries who whine about wokeness and weaponize culture and religion to spread a hateful message with no basis in reality. But that doesn't mean they're not dangerous. Never underestimate your enemy especially when they've convinced themselves that they are the chosen ones and everybody else is subhuman. So, is the US headed for fascism? Yes and no. The US is a settler colonial imperialist project, it's primed for fascism by default. Any nation which depends on the exploitation of others is one bad quarter away from going full muscle. That being said, the economic conditions that allow for the growth of fascism also result in the growth of class consciousness which gives socialism a chance to fight back under every single fascist regime in history. The Socialists were the first to be targeted because fascists know that socialism is a threat to capital and that any truly egalitarian system has to get rid of the exploitative system that is capitalism. Fascists don't want revolutionary change, they want violent maintenance of the status quo and they want to turn the violence of the empire usually reserved for foreigners inward suppressing whatever groups they don't like, so yes, fascism is on the rise so is socialism and it's our job to make sure this time fascists don't get their way and that instead we forge a path towards a brighter more humane future. I mentioned at the beginning of the video that this channel is entirely grassroots funded. Since sponsors don't want to touch videos like these we have to rely on the generous support of viewers like you if you'd like to help keep this channel afloat and get some great perks while you're at it. Consider becoming a patron on patron. All patrons regardless of pledge amount get early access to every video plus access to our patrons only Discord server... * References: 1. NEWS ANALYSIS Just How Dangerous Is Europe's Rising Far Right? Anti-immigration parties with fascist roots — and an uncertain commitment to democracy — are now mainstream. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/world/europe/europe-far-right.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk0.FcWn.-3yk1sfUMTus&smid=url-share By Roger Cohen May 5, 2024 2. FASCISM: An In-Depth Explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_98uT1IZs Ryan Chapman Mar 8, 2022 Political Theory & Philosophy Fascism, explained by way of Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. @Thedimka 2 years ago (edited) Out of all modern regimes, the "Communist" China is the closest to this definition. I am not sure if they are all the way there, but more than others for sure. @robto 2 years ago replied They're still not Fascist by the very reasons that they do not define themselves as such, do not, at least verbally, claim any influence from any other Fascist movement, and also, they are very much removed from the historical and political context in which Fascism appeared. @pierren___ 2 years ago Fascism is also defined by politics, and China on this matter is less fascist @Thedimka 2 years ago @robto True, they don't define themselves as such, but it's not because they do not like the doctrine, but mostly for two reasons, they started as Communists, and Fascist labeling is very unpopular after WWII. @eduardstefanmalos3685 2 years ago @robto that doesn't mean china its not fascist @oxvendivil442 2 years ago Today's People's Republic of China is a controlled or tempered Fascism/Nationalism-Socialism hence the official descriptive term Socialism with Chinese Characteristics [Chinese Characteristics being a vague term for the very ancient and traditional national character which is basically an analog to Nationalism-Socialism/Fascism which is defined by Han chauvinism or Han supremacy]; Republic of China on the other hand is Nationalist in name but in its core is plain Nationalism-Socialism/Fascism hence its close ties to pre war Germany. @pierren___ 2 years ago @oxvendivil442 tell me more about ROC and what Chinese people think of it. @user-kd3gz1hl1e 2 years ago Fascists in Europe consider socialism with Chinese characteristics as the closest thing to fascism currently in power, alongside Ba'athism in Syria. 3. On the Theory and Practice of the Metamorphosis from Revisionism to Fascism, Sans-culottes https://www.xgc2000.net/xgc/02/11/24219.html superceded by See also the most recent edition: https://blog.creaders.net/user_blog_diary.php?did=NDgxNzUw * My comment on "Is The US Headed Towards Fascism?"（雙語 bilingual）《美國正在走向法西斯主義嗎？》https://blog.creaders.net/user_blog_diary.php?did=NDg5MDU4 The author has presented a very comprehensive review on the important political question of fascism, especially in the U.S. As both a reader and a video viewer, I felt greatly enhanced in understanding the fascist question in this country and I believe this video has brought benefit to many others as well. Fascism is a product of capitalism, especially when it enters into its crises-stages of development in a cyclical manner. Usually, anti-capitalist movements such as socialist revolutions break out before the pro-capitalist and fascist movements. Facing such a danger of overthrowing the capitalist system, the fascist counterrevolutionary movements then follow up by entering the stage of history as a counterrevolutionary and anti-socialist savior of capitalism . Needless to say is that the U.S. hegemony in the post-United-Kingdom-Imperialism era has been free from socialist revolution, in fact free from any anti-capitalist liberation movements, let alone the socialist revolutions... Its Two-Party Duopoly serve the ruling class well over two hundred years without any antithesis in either theory or reality. The political lackeys of capitals have been so much rewarded that almost all POTUS's became multi-millionaires and their families many times over. If history is anything worthwhile contribution to mirroring, the U.S. political system will endure even the most dangerous challenges through time without fundamental changes. Because of lack of chances for socialist revolution, the U.S., to certain extend, will suffer less or even no national calamity brought by fascism. In a nutshell, the socialism phobia syndrome in the main-stream society has served the ruling class well. As fascism needs ultra-nationalism as one of its basic arms for a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence, the existence of a majority of nationals of same color, ethnicity and historical origin in a state is necessary. This requirement does not hold well in the U.S., even though propagandas such as the Great Replacement Theory and other similar xenophobic undercurrents and outlets had appeared. Nominally, the two parties would claim opposite political interests - for an example, the Democratic party would like to be called liberal, leftist, progressive, or social-democratic party; the Republic party would prefer the labels such as conservative, rightist, small-government, market-oriented, deregulation of corporations, restrictions on labor unions and GOP (Grand Old Party). Actually, both of the two parties have been forced to make drastic changes in their nominal labels - both parties tend to move to the center. Political neutrality has become their destination. This change is needed to avoid to offend against public common sense and insights. Almost all of the people who gain knowledge through actively pursuing answers to questions know the two parties are all fake - the Dems are fake leftists and the GOP is a fake rightists group; both parties are false in their hearts and yet they pretend to be different parties. No, they differ in name only; both serve the interests of their capitalist ruling class as private servants. Besides, the government is nothing but the Executive Committee of the ruling class. Due to the weakness of the left and lack of ultra-nationalism, the US fascism tend to be weaker and less capable of playing a key role in politics. The militia-like organizations such as Oath keepers, the Proud boys, the Three Percenters, Patriot front and Patriot prayer, and others to appear in the future, are not true fascist organizations, because their sizes and political influences are limited. They may wish to be taken seriously as fascists, but they are not, hence they should be called quasi-fascist but not true fascist organizations. Oddly enough, the war-mongering Dems and GOP, while not fascist parties, but heavily supported by the most reactionary capitalists such as the military industrialists, are nonetheless likely pursuing an irresponsible path for an open-ended hegemony, irrespective of lives and costs, while the Trump-led MAGA group fear wars like fearing calamities. Stopping unjust wars from preparation long before their breaking-outs is as important as anti-fascism movements. Facing the potential threat from future socialist uprisings and revolutions, the ruling class had chosen a soft defense strategy - the woke ideology. As the woke euphoria hides the scientific doctrine of existence of social classes, the woke-protected bourgeoisie could be considered not much different at all from you and me. Any animosity towards the rich would be considered to be misguided and must be stopped for good, as though the woke democracy or the phony classless and/or transcending-class, rigged, and simply put, the old democracy had reached the zenith of democracy, whereas the class, real and the new democracy had fallen down to the nadir of democracy. This country needs a new democracy which will be a new-democratic revolution by uniting all revolutionary classes to make a common revolution to replace the old democracy that has been mistakenly hailed for the past two hundred and fifty years as the only genuine democracy. With the new democracy, a new republic will be forthcoming. All ruling classes have two hands - one hard and one soft. They have to maintain both the soft and hard defense strategies. When the soft one fails to govern the ruled classes, it's about the time to change hands. Executive, legislative and the judicial branches will jointly order the military, both uniformed and political police, militia, intelligence agents of different kinds as well as other "patriots" such as the congressmen and women bought by money, attorneys and judges to protect "Democracy" and "law and order," or repress against the ruled classes - the political "deplorables," of which the majority belong to the working class. The U.S. ruling class leads the world in colonizing internally the working class, which has become a domestically colonized people, replacing the black slaves who toiled up in the established colonies, one hundred years ago. Meantime, the new waged-slave-masters take advantages of the abundant surplus values created by those low-paid working class in overseas to exploit and suppress their own relatively higher-paid waged slaves. The internal workings of the U.S. capitalist corporation colony have to face disagreements. On the one hand, fictitious or non-productive capitals such as financial and banking capitals couldn't care less about the wage-level and productivity of their domestic workers and these fictitious capitalists wanted to invest overseas wholeheartedly, actively and extensively. On the other hand, productive capitals have to do the opposite - caring more about their domestic work force than those wage-earners overseas. The internal conflicts of interests of the ruling classes in the U.S. and elsewhere had led to a dangerous brew of political opposition and conflict, in which typically the Demos and the GOP belong to the camp of the financial and banking capitals and Donald Trump's MAGA group and other so-called Rightists care more about the precariously low-waged working class than the collegiate/white-collar strata of the working class, to which the political establishment of the party-duopoly pays more attention. The working-class uprising on January 6, 2021 at the Capitol, Washington, D.C. , was to debut the working class as the true "master of the universe" rather than the falsely claimed investment-banksters-capitalist class, regardless of whether there were desperate petty-bourgeoisie-turned quasi-fascist losers participating. Trump's MAGA group being supported by the working class is the only political force, so far, that can lead the country to progress. To him, the GOP serves as a intermediary for seizing the opportunity to participate in progressive and enlightened bourgeois politics. As the world capitalism has struggled hard against perennial crises without success for a longtime, more progressive and enlightened capitalists will follow his path of awakening to the cruel political reality. Taking the advantages of Donald Trump's newly opened favorable roads on winding cliffs of capitalism, the working class should be able to take control of the more proactive political situation than before. We should support all of the progressive and enlightened factions of the bourgeois politics, hoping first of all to get rid of the domestic-colonial status and then eventually to seize our own political power by means of "a joint dictatorship of all the revolutionary classes and the system of government, democratic centralism--these constitute the politics of New Democracy, the republic of New Democracy." (See Selected Works of Mao Zedong, ON NEW DEMOCRACY, January 1940; https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm ) Epilogue: "The future is bright, but the road is tortuous." 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Tario)，他於 2023 年因在暴動中所扮演的角色被判處 22 年監禁，他也是邁阿密古巴人，這幾乎告訴了你所有你需要知道的關於他的政治立場的信息，但在審判期間，他被發現也是聯邦政府的線人，這導致了驕傲男孩的分裂，他們簡直不敢相信他們中的一員會為邪惡的政府工作，不得不愛上這些人的天真，當法官宣判時，塔里奧懇求法庭：請饒恕我，我請求你們不要奪走我的 40 歲，這就是硬漢形象崩潰的速度。截至目前為止，驕傲男孩似乎陷入了混亂。他們被踢出他們試圖組織的每個平台，他們的許多成員在 1 月 6 日之後被關起來，他們似乎非常害怕他們被聯邦政府滲透。少數州分支機構表示他們不會承認任何國家領導，他們只是在做自己的事情，所以如果幸運的話，該組織將消亡。但這並不意味着他們剩下的成員不危險，所以請記住這一點。 除了驕傲男孩，我們還有誓言守衛者、三個百分點愛國者陣線和愛國者祈禱。三個百分點是名單上最古老的團體，該組織成立於 2008 年。如果你像我一樣住在德克薩斯州，你可能見過 3er 保險槓貼紙——這個名字來自於一個假設，即一個國家 3% 的人口就足以推翻政府。該組織於 2021 年 1 月 6 日後正式解散，然後你會開始注意到一個趨勢：即它的許多成員被關進了監獄，加拿大再次將他們列為像驕傲男孩一樣的恐怖組織。3centers 的地方分支機構仍然活躍。 誓言守衛者是第二古老的組織，成立於 3percenters 之後僅一年。這是另一個反政府但支持憲法的組織，值得注意的是，其成員中有 2/3 是前軍人和警察，10% 是現役軍人，對其人數的最佳猜測搖擺於 5,000 人左右，但該組織本身聲稱擁有 38,000 名成員。這些暴徒以出現在抗議、政治集會以及他們認為是覺醒（woke）的任何活動中而聞名，他們手持槍支並蒙着臉。再次，他們的一些高層因引誘陰謀而入獄服刑十多年，儘管這個組織似乎比他們懦弱的同行更堅韌；事實上，根據 2021 年的數據泄露，該組織成員中包括 48 名州和地方官員以及 10 名現任州議員。這表明他們採取了與其他法西斯組織不同的方法，他們選擇進行選舉滲透，而不是嚴格意義上的恐怖行為。 最後兩個值得一提的重要組織是愛國者陣線和愛國者祈禱。他們都喜歡愛國者這種蠢話，我們稍後會講到。愛國者祈禱成立於 2016 年，位於華盛頓州郊區。這是我們要討論的另一件事。據一位線人稱，他們的全部工作就是騷擾太平洋西北地區的自由派和左翼團體，與反法西斯分子進行街頭鬥毆，這些鬥毆經常被拍攝和上傳，並鼓勵其他新興法西斯分子更多地參與其中。這些人只有大約 15 人，他們非常善於為自己樹立名聲，因為法西斯分子通常是膽小鬼，當戰鬥即將來臨時，他們就會四散奔逃。最後，名單上最年輕的組織——愛國者陣線。這是另一個小組織，但我敢打賭，你聽說過的關於他們的信息比其他一些組織多，其他組織都在躲躲閃閃和拐彎抹角，這些人的法西斯主義非常明顯，他們甚至將法西斯作為標誌的一部分。如果我不得不猜測哪個組織最終會成為法西斯運動中最具影響力的組織，那就是愛國者陣線。對於一群反動派來說，他們非常擅長將傳統的美國文化與法西斯象徵相結合，在過去的每一次成功的法西斯運動中，這都是它所具有的文化風味的關鍵元素。你可能聽過這句話，當法西斯主義來到美國時，它會裹着國旗，背着十字架。舉個例子，愛國者陣線是另一個在成員數量上超乎尋常的組織，據最佳估計，該組織的成員人數只有 200 人，但他們占了 2021 年美國涉及傳播法西斯種族主義或其他偏執宣傳的所有事件的 82%。 如果你把視野放遠一點，這一切都很有趣，你有你的兄弟會、你的民兵、你的街頭暴徒和你的宣傳者，這是一個相當發達的法西斯暗流，即使現在他們似乎在舔舐傷口，當他們開始在不同的團體中組織起來時會發生什麼。 拋開猜測，關於美國法西斯主義，重要的是要意識到它並不局限於這少數幾個明確的法西斯主義團體，它已經成為美國右翼的主流。讓我給你舉個例子。在疫情高峰期，有一位退役了的軍人企業主，但企業不會再和平太久了。好吧，這不是威脅，我不是罪犯，我從來都不是罪犯，但我要告訴你，好公民很快就會變成真正關心和革命的公民，沒有人會說，我可能是唯一一個有膽量說出我現在所說的話的人，我們正在建設，我們正在組織，我們會與執法部門合作，或者沒有執法部門，但到時候你不會阻止我們，因為我們的家人正在挨餓，如果你聽不到我聲音的嚴肅性，我希望你豎起耳朵，認真聽我說的話，因為這是即將到來的警告。和平不會持續太久，不會是歡呼雀躍，不會有演講，不會在外面集會宣誓效忠，不會是 W from Flags 也就是船上掛起W（威士忌）旗子——我需要醫療援助。當你看到我所看到的事情時，這將是真實的。我為這個國家而戰。我見過人類最醜陋、最骯髒的一面。我參加過戰鬥，我再也不想回去了，但我告訴你，為了拯救這個國家，我會盡我所能，如果必須針對我們自己的公民，那就會發生，有上百萬人像我一樣，你不會阻止我們。聽起來很糟糕，但這正是我們在首都暴動中看到的那種人。所有法西斯團體都在那裡，至少有 700 名組織成員被捕，但與大多數人所說的普通保守派相比，他們只是杯水車薪。在首都騷亂中被指控的人中，只有大約 13.3% 是驕傲男孩、3percenters 和誓言守衛者等激進組織的正式成員。其餘 87% 是普通的特朗普支持者和扮演革命者的保守派 LARPing（真人角色扮演）的混合體，絕大多數衝進首都的人只是普通的共和黨人，你可以看出：他們看起來不像典型的極右翼極端分子。他們通常年齡較大，大約 2/3 的人年齡超過 35 歲，他們失業的可能性要小得多，被指控的與會者中有 14% 是企業主，30% 是白領工人，這些不是正常的極右翼極端分子人口統計數據。這些只是共和黨選民的人口統計數據。這就是為什麼法西斯分子瞄準郊區，正如我們之前提到的，受害的白人中產階級已經成熟，容易被激進化，普通的美國保守派希望推翻政府，建立一些基於神話化過去的奇怪反覺醒（anti-woke）神權政治。不要相信我的話。他們實際上是在他們的巨著“2025 項目”中提倡這一點，我們不久前製作了一個關於這個項目的視頻。好吧。為什麼會這樣？保守派一直都是反動的，但在過去十年左右發生了變化，有幾個因素。 我們先從文化戰爭問題開始——白人種族滅絕神話——“大替代理論”是法西斯分子中的經典理論。它聲稱有一個陰謀，這實際上意味着他們認為白人種族和白人文化，無論這意味着什麼，都是猶太人的事情，因為來自大多數非白人國家的移民而消失。法西斯主義者認為這會導致對白人的普遍迫害，因為他們當然無法想象世界在沒有一個種族征服另一個種族的情況下會如何運轉。這一理論激發了基督教堂槍擊案兇手布倫頓·塔蘭特和埃爾帕索槍擊案兇手帕特里克·克魯修斯，它既毫無根據，又明顯是法西斯主義。你不會驚訝地發現，這一理論的歷史軌跡始於第二次世界大戰，並貫穿了歐洲法西斯運動、美國納粹黨，現在已在大多數共和黨選民中找到了歸屬。 這是塔克·卡爾森在福克斯上認可這一理論的片段，他直呼其名，並將其比作優生學。喬·拜登剛剛說，要改變這個國家的種族結構，這就是減少祖先生活在這裡的人的政治權力，大幅增加新從第三世界移民的美國人比例的原因，然後拜登進一步說，非白人 DNA 是（且讓我引用他的話說）：“我們的力量之源”，想象一下的話，這就是優生學的語言。這令人震驚，但拜登在政治上說這個政策是有原因的，這項政策被稱為“大替換”，用來自遙遠國家的更順從的人取代傳統美國人。他們一直在吹噓這件事，但如果你敢說這正在發生，他們則會歇斯底里地對你大喊大叫，而喬·拜登在錄音帶上面帶微笑地證實了他的動機。 這種種族主義仇外心理並不新鮮。歷史上的每一個法西斯主義項目都需要創造一個被選中的民族和一個野蠻的敵人來證明他們的反人類政治是正當的。即使粗略地看一眼任何一本歷史書，就能清楚地知道這種趨勢從何而來，但它為什麼會開始呢？人類可能是非常不信任的動物，但僅僅隨機決定從他們的偏見中建立一種滅絕性的世界觀是沒有多大意義的。我們需要深入挖掘，超越文化戰爭，才能真正理解法西斯主義的吸引力。 社會主義和法西斯主義都在崛起，很容易看出為什麼每個運動背後都有經濟催化劑。法西斯主義被視為解決經濟問題的方法，就像社會主義一樣，但不同之處在於，法西斯主義不會威脅資本的首要地位或白人自由主義者的舒適地位，白人自由主義者是歷史上法西斯運動的關鍵盟友。經濟困難，它創造了痛苦、不信任和絕望的條件，使群眾成為魅力十足、誇誇其談的法西斯分子的攻擊目標。回想一下那個市政廳視頻，那個人說他們侵略的導火索是什麼，無法養家糊口，你知道這是一個完全合理的理由讓人感到不安。問題是，他和其他法西斯分子的解決方案是消滅或驅逐任何被認為對白人賺錢和保持特權地位有害的人，或者在他們眼中防止勤勞的愛國者失去經濟基礎，因為他們的機會被小資產階級奪走，或者因為我喜歡稱他們為屋頂工階級、小企業主，這些人擁有少數承包商，每月花 1,200 美元購買一輛從未用於任何體力勞動的 F-150 Raptor。但我離題了，我真的盡力去理解法西斯，因為這是一個有趣的現象。 在我看來，社會主義提供的是解決資本主義經濟民主弊病的常識性解決方案——做這項工作的人對工作方式有發言權，利潤不能被未經選舉的公司暴君侵吞。另一方面，法西斯主義必須創造這種精心設計的幻想來證明為什麼一個特定的群體註定要繼承地球，而且恰好是你國家的人，而你恰好屬於的群體與我對加爾文主義者的抱怨是一樣的。他們相信所有人類都註定要去天堂或地獄，我們所做的任何事情都無法影響這個命運。我從未見過相信自己會下地獄的加爾文主義者。如果我努力克制自己基本的人類尊嚴，我就能明白為什麼法西斯神話如此有吸引力。它讓你逃脫了懲罰。它為最殘忍的行為辯護，因為你在捍衛善良和正義，不讓那些想要摧毀美麗文明的人類動物傷害你。問題是，法西斯聲稱捍衛的文明從未存在過。沒有單一的白人種族，這是一個神話。只要問問愛爾蘭人、意大利人、俄羅斯人、烏克蘭人或猶太人，他們的白卡都曾在某個時候被吊銷或獲得。在美國歷史上，沒有哪個時期白人工人階級一切都很好。這個國家的每個工人都一直受制於精英階層，但不是法西斯主義者認為在操縱的精英階層。這不是一個由覺醒的猶太人組成的神秘陰謀集團。只是擁有生產資料的人。他們對此並不避諱。像沃倫·巴菲特這樣的人經常承認正在進行一場階級戰爭，資本家希望確保他們能贏得這場戰爭。 光榮的法西斯革命是，這些自稱愛國者的人想要的根本不是革命性的。這只是把時光倒流到這些階級對立不那麼明顯的時代，資本家階級仍然完全控制着社會。但也許黑人的權利更少。如果那是你對烏托邦的想象，你是一個[__]（傻B），你冒着數十年的牢獄之災，因為你想確保靴子踩在你的脖子上，因為你喜歡靴子踩在你身上時說的謊言。共和黨人喜歡法西斯主義，因為這是一種維持經濟現狀的意識形態。他們不喜歡他們的有用白痴們試圖用私刑處死他們，所以人們不得不為此入獄。 但總的來說，統治階級容忍法西斯主義而不容忍社會主義是有原因的。社會主義是真正的革命，而法西斯主義只是資本主義的毒瘤，在他們看來，在需要的時候可以當作工具使用。這也不是統治階級第一次利用經濟不穩定。從前，一群超級富有的資本家策劃了一個陰謀，試圖說服一群弱勢的美國人發動起義，推翻政府，然後這群寡頭將建立一個為資本服務的法西斯獨裁政權。聽起來有點像 1 月 6 日。這次未遂政變不就是所謂的商業陰謀嗎？它實際上發生在 1933 年。簡而言之，一位退休將軍 - 斯梅德利·巴特勒被一位準金融家接觸，後者向他提供資金和 50 萬人，讓他領導一場起義，推翻當時的總統羅斯福。羅斯福的當選和隨後的經濟改革讓保守派商人感到震驚，他們認為羅斯福是社會主義者，因此，當羅斯福在社會主義和法西斯主義之間做出選擇時，他們自然而然地壓倒性地站在了法西斯主義一邊，並告訴巴特勒，他們希望將他任命為全能的總務部長，而羅斯福將扮演一個傀儡角色。不幸的是，對於密謀者來說，巴特勒出賣了他們。在晚年，巴特勒將軍開始支持羅斯福，並直言不諱地批評資本主義，稱自己過去是為華爾街的上流社會分子們謀取利益，想分享其成，結果這個商業陰謀失敗了。 這為我們提供了一個很好的例子，說明經濟不穩定如何被用作法西斯主義的武器。資本家明白，成千上萬的一戰老兵對美國感到失望，因為他們沒有得到承諾的福利，他們認為，如果他們能找到一個受歡迎的領導人，把不滿情緒煽動成法西斯狂熱，他們就可以自由地控制國家的經濟，製造出資本和國家的一種不正當合併——這是法西斯主義的基石。我們今天所看到的情況與其他每個時期都有相同的特徵，法西斯主義越來越受歡迎，經濟不安全，法西斯主義的形成準軍事組織和一系列魅力人物試圖利用極右翼民粹主義的興起來謀取私利。雖然對那些經濟困難、尋求答案的人表示同情很重要，但一旦有人選擇成為法西斯主義者，他們就是一種威脅，但同樣重要的是要意識到這些人大體上都是失敗者和懦夫。他們誇誇其談，但面對反法西斯主義的抵抗時卻逃避，他們不像他們的偶像那樣站在公眾演講者用來作為臨時講台的盒子或板條箱上，而是針對兒童發表仇恨言論並潛伏在網上，他們穿着荒謬的服裝，戴着紙板盾牌，如果我們說實話，這些人中的大多數並不真正符合超男（即超級男人）的原型。歸根結底，他們是可悲的反動派，他們抱怨覺醒，利用文化和宗教武器來傳播沒有現實依據的仇恨信息。但這並不意味着他們不危險。永遠不要低估你的敵人，尤其是當他們確信自己是天選之子，其他人都是低等人的時候。 那麼，美國會走向法西斯主義嗎？既是，也不是。 美國是一個移居者的殖民帝國主義項目，它默認為法西斯主義做好了準備。任何依賴剝削他人的國家，只要有一個季度出現不景氣，就會全力以赴地要去解決了。話雖如此，允許法西斯主義發展的經濟條件也導致了階級意識的增長，這讓社會主義有機會在歷史上的每一個法西斯政權下進行反擊。社會主義者是第一個被針對的對象，因為法西斯主義者知道社會主義是對資本的威脅，任何真正平等的制度都必須擺脫資本主義這種剝削制度。法西斯分子不想要革命性的變革，他們想要用暴力維持現狀，他們想要把通常只用於外國人的帝國暴力轉向國內，鎮壓他們不喜歡的群體，所以是的，法西斯主義正在崛起，社會主義也在崛起，我們的工作是確保這次法西斯分子不會得逞，而是開闢一條通往更光明、更人道的未來的道路。 我在視頻開頭提到，這個頻道完全由草根資助。由於贊助商不想碰這樣的視頻，如果您想幫助這個頻道維持下去並在其中獲得一些很棒的福利，我們必須依靠像您這樣的觀眾的慷慨支持。考慮成為 patreon 的贊助人。所有贊助人，無論承諾金額多少，都可以提前訪問每個視頻，還可以訪問我們僅對贊助人開放的 Discord 服務器…… * 參考文獻： 1. 新聞分析 歐洲崛起的極右翼到底有多危險？ 具有法西斯主義根源和對民主的不確定承諾的反移民政黨現在已成為主流。 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/world/europe/europe-far-right.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk0.FcWn.-3yk1sfUMTus&smid=url-share 作者：Roger Cohen 2024 年 5 月 5 日 2. 法西斯主義：深入解釋 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T_98uT1IZs Ryan Chapman 2022 年 3 月 8 日 政治理論與哲學 通過墨索里尼的意大利和希特勒的德國來解釋法西斯主義。 網評 @Thedimka 2 年前（已編輯） 在所有現代政權中，“共產主義”中國最接近這一定義。我不確定他們是否完全符合法西斯主義，但肯定比其他政權更符合。 @robto 2 年前回復 他們仍然不是法西斯主義者，因為他們沒有將自己定義為法西斯主義者，至少在口頭上沒有聲稱受到任何其他法西斯運動的影響，而且他們與法西斯主義出現的歷史和政治背景相距甚遠。 @pierren___ 2 年前回復 法西斯主義也是由政治定義的，而中國在這個問題上法西斯主義較少 @Thedimka 2 年前回復 @robto 沒錯，他們沒有將自己定義為法西斯主義者，但這並不是因為他們不喜歡這個學說，而主要是出於兩個原因，他們最初是共產黨員，而二戰後法西斯主義的標籤非常不受歡迎。 @eduardstefanmalos3685 2 年前回復 @robto 這並不意味着中國不是法西斯主義 @oxvendivil442 2 年前回復 今天的中華人民共和國是受控制或緩和的法西斯主義/民族主義-社會主義，因此官方的描述術語是中國特色社會主義[中國特色是一個非常古老和傳統的民族性格的模糊術語，基本上類似於大漢族沙文主義或漢族至上主義定義的民族主義-社會主義/法西斯主義]；另一方面，中華民國名義上是民族主義，但其核心是純粹的民族主義-社會主義/法西斯主義，因此與戰前的德國有着密切的聯繫。 @pierren___ 2 年前回復 @oxvendivil442 請告訴我更多關於中華民國以及中國人對它的看法。 @user-kd3gz1hl1e 2 年前回復 歐洲法西斯主義者認為，中國特色社會主義與敘利亞復興黨主義一樣，是最接近目前執政的法西斯主義的。 3. 關於蛻變的理論與實踐從修正主義到法西斯主義，無套褲漢 On the Theory and Practice of the Metamorphosis from Revisionism to Fascism, Sans-culottes https://www.xgc2000.net/xgc/02/11/24219.html 參閱最近版: https://blog.creaders.net/user_blog_diary.php?did=NDgxNzUw * 我對《美國正在走向法西斯主義嗎？》視頻的評論https://blog.creaders.net/user_blog_diary.php?did=NDg5MDU4 作者對法西斯主義這一重要的政治問題，尤其是美國的法西斯主義，進行了非常全面的回顧。作為一名讀者和視頻觀看者，我對這個國家的法西斯主義問題的理解大大增強，我相信這個視頻也給很多人帶來了益處。 法西斯主義是資本主義的產物，尤其是當它以周期性的方式進入其發展危機階段時。通常，反資本主義運動，如社會主義革命，在親資本主義和法西斯主義等運動之前爆發。面對推翻資本主義制度的危險，法西斯反革命運動緊隨其後，以資本主義的反革命和反社會主義救世主的身份登上歷史舞台。 毋庸置疑，後英帝國時代的美國霸權沒有社會主義革命，事實上沒有任何反資本主義解放運動，更不用說社會主義革命了…… 兩黨壟斷為統治階級服務了兩百多年，在理論和現實中都沒有任何對立。資本的政治走狗得到了如此多的回報，以至於幾乎所有的美國總統都成了千萬富翁，他們的家人也成倍地富裕起來。 如果歷史有什麼值得借鑑的地方，那就是美國政治制度將經受住最危險的挑戰，而不會發生根本性的變化。 由於缺乏社會主義革命的機會，美國在一定程度上不會遭受甚至不會遭受法西斯主義帶來的民族災難。總而言之，主流社會的社會主義恐懼症候群為統治階級提供了良好的服務。 法西斯主義需要極端民族主義作為其突發暴力事件的基本武器之一，因此一個國家必須有大多數同膚色、同民族、同歷史根源的國民。這一要求在美國並不成立，儘管出現了“大取代論”等類似的排外主義暗流和宣泄。按：大取代（法語：Grand Remplacement），抑或稱取代理論，是白人民族主義者提倡的極右陰謀論，由法國作家雷諾·加繆提出。 該理論認為，通過與“取代派”精英合謀或合作（pouvoir/élite remplaciste），歐洲的白人正在人口及文化層面逐漸被非白人（特別是穆斯林）取代。美國大取代論也就不足為奇了。 在名義上，兩黨會宣稱對立的政治利益——例如，民主黨希望被稱為自由黨、左翼黨、進步黨或社會民主黨；共和黨則喜歡被稱為保守黨、右翼黨、小政府黨、市場主義黨、放鬆企業管制黨、限制工會黨和共和黨（GOP，即大老黨）。 事實上，兩黨都被迫在名義上做出大刀闊斧的改變，都趨向中間，政治中立成為它們的歸宿。這種改變是為了避免違背公眾的常識和見解。幾乎所有通過主動尋求問題的答案而獲得知識的人都知道，兩黨都是假的，民主黨是假左派，共和黨是假右派，兩黨都是假的，卻又假裝是不同的政黨。不，它們只是在名義上不同，都是為各自資本主義統治階級的利益服務的私仆，其政府也不過是統治階級的執行委員會罷了。 由於左翼勢力的弱小和極端民族主義的缺乏，美國法西斯主義的力量也趨於弱小，在政治上難以發揮關鍵作用。誓言守衛者、驕傲男孩、百分之三、愛國陣線、愛國祈禱者等民兵組織以及在將來會出現的組織都不是真正的法西斯組織，因為它們的規模和政治影響力都很有限。他們可能希望被認真地視為法西斯主義者，但他們不是，因此他們應該被稱為準法西斯主義者組織，而不是真正的法西斯組織。 奇怪的是，好戰的民主黨和共和黨雖然不是法西斯主義黨，但卻得到了軍工企業等最反動的資本家的大力支持，他們很可能不顧生命和代價，走上一條不負責任的開放式霸權之路，而特朗普領導的“讓美國再次偉大”組織則懼怕戰爭，如同懼怕災難。在非正義戰爭爆發之前就阻止其準備，與反法西斯主義的運動是一樣重要的。 面對未來社會主義起義和革命的潛在威脅，統治階級選擇了一種軟防禦策略——覺醒意識形態。由於覺醒的狂熱掩蓋了社會階級存在的科學學說，因此，受覺醒保護的資產階級可以被認為與你我並無太大區別。任何針對富人的敵意都會被視為誤導，必須徹底停止，就好像覺醒民主，也就是虛假的無階級和/或超越階級的、被操縱的、簡而言之即舊民主已經達到了頂峰。民主，即階級的民主、現實的民主即新民主已經跌落到民主的最低點。 這個國家需要一種新民主，一種新民主革命，它團結所有革命階級，共同進行革命，取代過去兩百五十年來被錯誤地譽為唯一真正民主的舊民主。有了新民主，一個新的共和國就會出現。 所有統治階級都有兩隻手——一隻硬手和一隻軟手。他們必須同時保持軟硬防禦戰略。當軟手無法統治住被統治階級時，就到了換手的時候了。行政、立法和司法部門將聯合命令軍隊、穿着制服的警察和政治警察、民兵、各種情報人員以及其他“愛國者”，如被金錢收買的國會議員、律師和法官，來保護“民主”和“法律和秩序”，或鎮壓被統治階級——政治“可悲者”，其中大多數屬於工人階級。 美國統治階級在對內殖民化工人階級方面走在了世界的前列，工人階級已經成為國內的殖民地人民，取代了一百年前在殖民地辛苦勞作的黑奴。而新的僱傭奴隸主則利用海外低薪工人階級創造的大量剩餘價值，剝削和壓制自己國內相對高薪的僱傭奴隸。 美國資本主義公司殖民地的內部運作面臨分歧。一方面，金融資本、銀行資本等虛擬資本或非生產性資本根本不在乎國內工人的工資水平和生產率，這些虛擬資本家們全心全意、積極而廣泛地在海外投資。另一方面，生產性資本則必須做相反的事情——比起對海外的僱傭勞動者，他們更關心國內的勞動力。 美國和其他地區的統治階級的內部利益衝突導致了危險的政治對立和衝突，其中民主黨和共和黨通常屬於金融和銀行資本陣營，唐納德·特朗普的“讓美國再次偉大”組織和其他所謂的右翼分子更關心處於危險中的低薪工人階級，而不是工人階級中的大學畢業生/白領階層，而兩黨壟斷政治的當權派更關注後者。 2021 年 1 月 6 日在華盛頓特區國會大廈舉行的工人階級起義，旨在將真正的“宇宙主宰”首次展示為工人階級，而不再虛假地視為投資銀行家等資本家階級，無論是否有絕望的小資產階級變成的准法西斯失敗者們參與起義。特朗普的“讓美國再次偉大”組織得到了工人階級的支持，是迄今為止唯一能夠帶領國家進步的政治力量。對他來說，共和黨是抓住機會參與進步和開明的資產階級政治的中間勢力。當世界資本主義長期在危機中苦苦掙扎卻無功而返時，更多進步開明的資本家將追隨他，走上覺醒於殘酷政治現實的道路上。 藉助唐納德·特朗普在資本主義懸崖峭壁上新開闢的有利道路，工人階級應該能夠掌握比以前更積極的政治局面。我們應該支持資產階級政治中一切進步開明的派系，希望首先擺脫國內殖民地位，最終通過“各革命階級聯合專政、民主集中制——這就是新民主主義的政治、新民主主義的共和國”，奪取自己的政權。 （見《毛澤東選集·新民主主義論》，1940 年 1 月；https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_26.htm） 結語： “前途是光明的，道路是曲折的。”（毛主席，1966 年。）
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