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My Conversation With Karl Marx About Donald Trump

The essay argues that class struggle and illusions helped elevate Trump, who has reversed more than 100 years of gains, according to the author.

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San Francisco (Dispatch to Informed Comment) – Norman Solomon: You’ve downplayed the importance of the individual in history. But the United States now has as president an individual who transformed power relations and the political landscape. Karl Marx:  I can assure you that he did not do that by himself. Power relations are class relations. And by the way, I never said individuals are irrelevant to history. I exhorted individuals to get invol…

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My conversation with Karl Marx about Donald Trump

Norman Solomon: You’ve downplayed the importance of the individual in history. But the United States now has as president an individual who transformed power relations and the political landscape. Karl Marx: I can assure you that he did not do that by himself. Power relations are class relations. And by the way, I never said individuals are irrelevant to […] The post My conversation with Karl Marx about Donald Trump appeared first on Asia Times.

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