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There is no national solution to the problems of American capitalism. The effort of the United States is to overcome this through a policy of war. Because what, ultimately, is imperialism? The inability to solve the problems of the nation-state within national borders drives the policy of war and conquest. That is what is emerging. Under conditions of war, the threat of war, conditions of growing and immeasurable inequality, democracy cannot survive. The tendency now is the suppression of democracy. And just as there is no national solution for capitalism, there is no national solution for the working class.”
War is not an expression of the strength of the system. It is an expression of profound and deep crisis. War brings revolution. The global problems which exist can only be solved in one of two ways: the capitalist, imperialist solution is war and fascism. The working-class solution is revolution. This is, I think, the alternative we’re confronted with. So, the question that has come up, in the broadest sense, is what is the answer to the problems we face? Building a revolutionary party.
There is going to be, and there is already unfolding, massive social struggles. The question of social revolution is not utopian. It is a process that emerges objectively out of the contradictions of capitalism. I think the argument can be made—and I think we made this argument—that really, since 2008, we have been witnessing an acceleration of crisis. It has never been solved, and, indeed, the massive levels of social inequality are themselves not the expression of a healthy but a deeply diseased socioeconomic order. It is fueling, at every level, social opposition. Of course, the great problem, then, is overcoming the legacy of political confusion, produced, as a matter of fact, by the defeats and the betrayals of the 20th century,the betrayals of the working class by social democracy, the subordination of the working class in the United States to the Democratic Party. These are the critical issues and lessons that have to be learned. The education of the working class in these issues, and the development of perspective, is the most critical point … the basic problem is not an absence of courage. It is not an absence of the desire to fight. It is an absence of understanding.