Democracy under capitalism is capitalist rule. And it’s the most stable form of capitalist rule: by allowing for elections and the peaceful transfer of power between parties, the masses can express their political dissatisfaction, while real power stays in the hands of capital.

Trump, with his populist indictment of liberalism and its organized system of hypocrisy, is jeopardizing the illusions that capitalist rule depends on. He is exposing the dictatorship of Capital under which we really live.

The idea that the United States would annex Canada might initially seem to be beyond absurd. But there is most definitely a method behind Trump’s madness. 

World capitalism is in serious trouble, and American capitalism is at the heart of the rot. Trump’s unenviable task is to manage the systemic crisis of capitalism, and in particular, US imperialism’s relative decline.

The ferocious blaze threatening to swallow America’s second largest city is a product of the capitalist system in terminal decline.

What we see is not the struggle to establish a more just world system, but rather the struggle between different imperialist robbers for the division of the loot.

Three shell casings found at the scene reportedly had the words “deny,” “defend,” “depose,” written on them, presumably a reference to the labyrinthine nightmare that companies like United present to their “customers” during some of their darkest moments.

By all indications, Trump and his candidates are all determined to take a machete to the heart of the state, to cut down their opponents and put their own hand-picked nominees in place.

The election of Trump puts Canada’s ruling class between a rock and a hard place.

For the sake of their individual interests, Biden and Zelensky are dangerously escalating the war.