It’s been non-stop this year under Trump. The US has removed Maduro, said it wants to run Venezuela, tried to claim Greenland, killed protestors, put the head of its Central Bank under investigation, set up a ‘Board of Peace’ with Trump as its self-appointed leader….
What next? Some say it’s the end of democracy for the US and perhaps more widely. But we see it as capitalism just going on its merry unpredictable way. What doesn’t change is workers’ lives continuing to depend on finding an employer to sell their energies to. Instead of this, the world needs a different system of society – moneyless, cooperative, where we all freely contribute according to our abilities and take according to our needs.
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What we are witnessing is not an “end of democracy” so much as the normal operation of capitalism without its usual diplomatic varnish. Different administrations change the style and the rhetoric, but the underlying priorities remain the same: protecting markets, strategic resources, and the conditions for profit-making. Whether it is Venezuela, Greenland, or domestic repression, these actions flow from capitalist competition, not from the personality of one politician.
Capitalism has never been orderly or predictable. It lurches from crisis to crisis, driven by rivalry between states and corporations, and workers are expected to absorb the shocks. What doesn’t change is that our lives still depend on selling our labour power to survive, regardless of which flag or leader is in charge.
So the real issue isn’t saving “democracy” as a management style for capitalism, but questioning the system itself. A society based on common ownership, cooperation, and production for use—without money, wages, or profit—isn’t utopian. It’s the practical alternative to a system that can offer nothing but endless instability, dressed up each time as something new
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