The Trump Tariff Challenge and the Rule of Capital

The Trump Tariff Challenge and the Rule of Capital

As Canadians sift through the rubble of Trump’s latest salvo and steel themselves for the next in the back-and-forth of the US-Canada trade war, there is increasing interest, especially on the left, in an alternative, independent path for Canada. But in the understandable renewal of interest in attempts like that of the Waffle’s pursuit of left economic nationalism in the NDP of the 1960s and 70s, it is essential as socialists that we do not mis…