Capitalists bet over $100 million on the climate crisis for huge profits by looking for “easy solutions.”
Details. New “solar geoengineering” startups founded in the 2020s claim to have technology for curbing the effects of the climate crisis. Investments across nine primary startups, including companies such as Stardust Solutions, Make Sunsets and Gama Space, have reached (www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/betting-on-climat…) $115.8 million.
► Large-scale chemical interventions carry serious risks. Stratospheric sulfur can damage the ozone layer, increase UV exposure, and worsen respiratory conditions (techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/trump-epa-targets-two-ma…) at lower altitudes. Even with “safer” particles, deployment risks “termination shock” – a rapid temperature spike if cooling programs halt while emissions remain high. Gama Space dismisses these dangers by branding itself “relentlessly optimistic.”
► Despite claims (www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/betting-on-climat…) that they would prefer to “lose all [their] money,” investors are effectively betting on the failure of collective climate action. Firms are not only developing technology but lobbying for regulation and constructing new markets for geoengineering, anticipating long-term government contracts and guaranteed profits.
Context. Millions already suffer the effects of the climate crisis. In 2024, climate-driven disasters caused 45.8 million (news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163176) internal displacements – the highest figure recorded since 2008. nearly double the annual average of the past decade. Disasters triggered nearly twice as many movements in 2024 as the annual average (reliefweb.int/report/world/2025-global-report-inte…) over the past decade.
► Media focus on geoengineering startups functions as a diversion from the fossil fuel industry. In 2023 alone, US power plants emitted 650,000 tons (www.epa.gov/power-sector/progress-report-emissions…) of SO₂ – equivalent to roughly 343 million (techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/trump-epa-targets-two-ma…) Make Sunsets balloons. While this is used to minimise geoengineering risks, particles released higher in the atmosphere have a stronger climate effect and unique risks compared with ground-level emissions.
► Capitalism cannot resolve the climate crisis (us.politsturm.com/climate-crisis) because it is structured around competing private interests driven by profit, while effective climate action requires coordinated, collective planning. This contradiction was again demonstrated at the COP30 climate summit, marked by the absence of key heads of state such as Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, the entrenched presence of petrol lobbyists (globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/fossil-fuel-lo…) – a recurring feature of COP negotiations – and the failure (www.lemonde.fr/en/climate/article/2025/11/22/cop30…) to produce any binding roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels.
Stalin on the Cold War: "Most probably, in the course of development of the world revolution, side by side with the centers of imperialism in individual capitalist countries and with the system of these countries throughout the world, centers of socialism will be created in individual Soviet countries and a system of these centers throughout the world, and the struggle between these two systems will fill the history of the unfolding of the world revolution." – Joseph Stalin, The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists, 1924.
On the morning of January 3, the United States launched an open invasion of Venezuelan territory. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro declared a state of emergency, but the US government refrained from making any public statements in the first hours.
American forces launched strikes on military and industrial targets. Reports emerged of a US force landing in Caracas and the seizure of the capital's airport.
Following this, the first official statements from US government officials were released. Donald Trump announced the capture of President Maduro and his wife by the US Delta Force. US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau stated that Maduro would face trial for "crimes". Washington characterized the invasion itself as "executing the arrest warrant".
Venezuelan government officials have issued statements declaring continued resistance. Power has formally transferred to Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. However, the Western bloc is counting on the rise of María Machado, a far-right opponent of Maduro and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has repeatedly spoken out in support of the American intervention in Venezuela. Trump subsequently announced he was working with the vice president and described Machado as unfit to lead Venezuela.
In essence, the January 3 operation represents a violent bourgeois coup: the replacement of one bourgeois group with another, completely controlled by the United States and ensuring the interests of American capital.
II. The Context of the Imperialist Conflict
The invasion unfolds against the backdrop of an intensifying struggle between American imperialism and rising Chinese imperialism. Throughout 2025, the Trump administration pursued a hardline policy toward China and its allies. To this end, the US imposed trade tariffs, pressured Russia, and launched strikes against Iran.
Venezuela is part of the Chinese bloc, representing its interests in South America. The signing of a strategic agreement with China's CCRC in 2024 has created the threat of Washington completely losing control over Venezuelan oil.
The conflict was preceded by months of secret negotiations between the Venezuelan and US leadership. From 2017 to 2025, the governments of both countries maintained regular contact.
In the fall of 2025, information about possible agreement options emerged. Maduro considered signing oil supply contracts with American corporations and gradually stepping down from power over the next few years. Maduro's willingness to make a deal with the US exposed the hypocrisy of the Venezuelan bourgeoisie, for whom maintaining power and profits is more important than any supposedly "anti-imperialist" rhetoric.
In early September, the United States strengthened its military presence in the Caribbean. In November and December, the American fleet began a blockade of the Venezuelan coast. After the invasion began, information emerged about plans to strike Venezuela in late December.
On the eve of the escalation, on January 2, 2026, Maduro met with China's special representative. During the meeting, hundreds of bilateral agreements were discussed, cementing military and economic cooperation between Venezuela and China. III. The Goals of American Imperialism
The lightning strike, which Trump called "well-planned", has three specific objectives:
1. Moving Venezuela out of Chinese and Russian influence, ensuring monopoly access to oil for US corporations such as Chevron and ExxonMobil.
2. Diverting the American working class's attention from rising unemployment, inflation, rising prices, and the crisis. Through a "small victorious war", American capitalists led by Trump are attempting to instill social chauvinism in the working class and create the image of America returning to its "traditional" role – an aggressive imperialist, capable of defending its interests by force anywhere on the planet.
3. Internationally, the American bourgeoisie and Trump are sending a signal to rising imperialist China and all its weaker opponents in the region and globally. Now the bourgeoisie of dependent and semi-dependent states will be forced to reckon with the possibility of a repeat of the "Venezuela scenario".
Almost simultaneously with the attack on China's ally in South America, protests are unfolding in Iran. Trump has already declared his readiness to "come to the aid" of the protesters.
The justification for the invasion, citing "execution of an arrest warrant", contrasts with the US administration's actions regarding the International Criminal Court. After issuing an arrest warrant for the leader of US-ally Israel for aggression in the Gaza Strip, Trump imposed sanctions against the ICC. This confirms that "international law" is a fiction, valid only when it benefits a major imperialist.
IV. The Collapse of the Maduro Regime
Beginning in 2026 with a military strike against part of the Chinese imperialist bloc, the United States demonstrates the main trend of the current moment: the crisis of capitalism leads to an escalation of contradictions between blocs. This escalation manifests itself in an increasing number of wars and targeted military actions.
The swift operation by American troops will set an example for other capitalists. The normalization of attacks on the leadership of hostile bloc states leads to further escalation of tensions, new escalations, and wars.
The speed of the January 3 operation was due not only to the US military and technical superiority but also to the lack of mass support for the Maduro regime among the Venezuelan proletariat. The bourgeois regime pursued anti-labor policies, eroded workers' real incomes through hyperinflation, and suppressed independent trade unions and communists.
Maduro couldn't count on popular resistance. The Venezuelan bourgeoisie, including the upper echelons of the ‘United Socialist Party of Venezuela’ and the military, created the conditions for a successful foreign invasion through corruption and economic sabotage.
It is necessary to decisively expose the illusions about the "socialist nature" of the Maduro government. The petty-bourgeois concept of "21st-century socialism" has proven in practice to be a cover for classic state-monopoly capitalism.
The key means of production were controlled either by private capital or by the bourgeoisie, fused with the state apparatus. Nationalization, without changing production relations, merely transferred exploitation to the state as the collective capitalist.
It's noteworthy that the theory and practice of "Chavismo" received support from a number of Trotskyist movements. Nicolás Maduro himself published materials in support of Trotsky and called him "one of the great Marxists of the 20th century".
In an attempt to cling to power, the regime resorted to bourgeois nationalism, threatening to annex parts of Guyana. This adventurism was necessary both to distract Venezuelan workers from domestic problems and rally them around the flag of the bourgeois state, and to strengthen the position of the Venezuelan bourgeoisie.
The Maduro regime's entire "anti-imperialist" rhetoric boiled down to bargaining and maneuvering between major imperialists, handing over oil contracts first to the American Chevron, then to the Chinese CCRC. The class essence of capitalism remained unchanged.
V. The Position of the Communists
1. Condemnation of US imperialist aggression and support for Venezuelan workers.
2. No support for the bourgeois regime of Venezuela, which exploits the working class, bans strikes and suppresses communists, nor for the bourgeois “opposition” and other pro-capitalist forces.
3. The only way out for Venezuelan workers is to create a real communist party and fight for socialism, together with workers of all countries.
The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party, or without the fullest and unreserved support from the entire mass of the working class, that is, from all thinking, honest, devoted and influential elements in it, capable of leading the backward strata or carrying the latter along with them.
Vladimir Lenin, “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder
“We are very glad not to belong to the liberal company of “honest” people and to those they regard as “honest”. We would consider it a dishonour to belong to such people. We are convinced that only utterly na\"ive or foolish people can believe in the “impartiality” of the liberal bourgeois, especially where the working-class movement for emancipation, i. e., its movement against the bourgeoisie, is concerned.”
Vladimir Lenin, The Bourgeois Intelligentsia’s Methods of Struggle Against the Workers
► In November, the White House highlighted selective price declines and real wage gains measured from an inflation-depressed baseline as “big progress (www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/11/were-making-bi… concealing the permanently higher cost of living for workers.
Important to Know. The outcomes of Trump’s rule are predictable. His economic agenda advances the interests of the American capitalist class. Tax cuts, deregulation, tariffs, militarisation (us.politsturm.com/tech-executives-commissioned-int…, and selective interventions all protect capital and increase profits while transferring costs to working-class households.
In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favourable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic republic. But this democracy is always hemmed in by the narrow limits set by capitalist exploitation, and consequently always remains, in effect, a democracy for the minority, only for the propertied classes, only for the rich. – Vladimir Lenin, "The State and Revolution".
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Capitalists bet over $100 million on the climate crisis for huge profits by looking for “easy solutions.”
Details. New “solar geoengineering” startups founded in the 2020s claim to have technology for curbing the effects of the climate crisis. Investments across nine primary startups, including companies such as Stardust Solutions, Make Sunsets and Gama Space, have reached (www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/betting-on-climat…) $115.8 million.
► Proposed methods include “stratospheric aerosol injection” (SAI) using aircraft deployment (carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2024/10/solar-geoen…, “marine cloud brightening (www.politico.com/news/2025/07/27/california-sunlig… via sea-salt particles, and techniques to slow Arctic ice melt (www.livescience.com/planet-earth/arctic/new-techno…. All aim to cool the planet by reflecting sunlight away from the Earth rather than reducing emissions.
► Experiments are already underway. In 2025, after Make Sunsets released (www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/12/0…) weather balloons with 109kg of sulfur dioxide over Baja California without authorisation. Separate cloud-brightening tests (www.politico.com/news/2025/07/27/california-sunlig…) propose a 3,900-square-mile experiment off the coasts of North America and Africa. Stardust Solutions plans its own trials by April 2026 (www.ciel.org/news/us-israeli-start-up-announces-re….
► Large-scale chemical interventions carry serious risks. Stratospheric sulfur can damage the ozone layer, increase UV exposure, and worsen respiratory conditions (techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/trump-epa-targets-two-ma…) at lower altitudes. Even with “safer” particles, deployment risks “termination shock” – a rapid temperature spike if cooling programs halt while emissions remain high. Gama Space dismisses these dangers by branding itself “relentlessly optimistic.”
► Despite claims (www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/betting-on-climat…) that they would prefer to “lose all [their] money,” investors are effectively betting on the failure of collective climate action. Firms are not only developing technology but lobbying for regulation and constructing new markets for geoengineering, anticipating long-term government contracts and guaranteed profits.
Context. Millions already suffer the effects of the climate crisis. In 2024, climate-driven disasters caused 45.8 million (news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163176) internal displacements – the highest figure recorded since 2008. nearly double the annual average of the past decade. Disasters triggered nearly twice as many movements in 2024 as the annual average (reliefweb.int/report/world/2025-global-report-inte…) over the past decade.
► At the same time, key capitalist states are retreating from their already weak commitments. Trump’s latest administration carried out mass layoffs (us.politsturm.com/trump-administration-attacks-on-…) at the Environmental Protection Agency and delayed (apnews.com/article/epa-trump-zeldin-fossil-fuels-t…) industrial pollution standards, undermining enforcement and public health protections.
► Media focus on geoengineering startups functions as a diversion from the fossil fuel industry. In 2023 alone, US power plants emitted 650,000 tons (www.epa.gov/power-sector/progress-report-emissions…) of SO₂ – equivalent to roughly 343 million (techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/trump-epa-targets-two-ma…) Make Sunsets balloons. While this is used to minimise geoengineering risks, particles released higher in the atmosphere have a stronger climate effect and unique risks compared with ground-level emissions.
► Capitalism cannot resolve the climate crisis (us.politsturm.com/climate-crisis) because it is structured around competing private interests driven by profit, while effective climate action requires coordinated, collective planning. This contradiction was again demonstrated at the COP30 climate summit, marked by the absence of key heads of state such as Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, the entrenched presence of petrol lobbyists (globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/fossil-fuel-lo…) – a recurring feature of COP negotiations – and the failure (www.lemonde.fr/en/climate/article/2025/11/22/cop30…) to produce any binding roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels.
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Stalin on the Cold War: "Most probably, in the course of development of the world revolution, side by side with the centers of imperialism in individual capitalist countries and with the system of these countries throughout the world, centers of socialism will be created in individual Soviet countries and a system of these centers throughout the world, and the struggle between these two systems will fill the history of the unfolding of the world revolution." – Joseph Stalin, The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists, 1924.
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“The strength of the working class lies in organisation. Unless the masses are organised, the proletariat is nothing. Organised — it is everything.”
Vladimir Lenin, Party Discipline and the Fight Against the Pro-Cadet Social-Democrats
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I. Timeline
On the morning of January 3, the United States launched an open invasion of Venezuelan territory. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro declared a state of emergency, but the US government refrained from making any public statements in the first hours.
American forces launched strikes on military and industrial targets. Reports emerged of a US force landing in Caracas and the seizure of the capital's airport.
Following this, the first official statements from US government officials were released. Donald Trump announced the capture of President Maduro and his wife by the US Delta Force. US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau stated that Maduro would face trial for "crimes". Washington characterized the invasion itself as "executing the arrest warrant".
Venezuelan government officials have issued statements declaring continued resistance. Power has formally transferred to Vice President Delcy Rodriguez. However, the Western bloc is counting on the rise of María Machado, a far-right opponent of Maduro and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has repeatedly spoken out in support of the American intervention in Venezuela. Trump subsequently announced he was working with the vice president and described Machado as unfit to lead Venezuela.
In essence, the January 3 operation represents a violent bourgeois coup: the replacement of one bourgeois group with another, completely controlled by the United States and ensuring the interests of American capital.
II. The Context of the Imperialist Conflict
The invasion unfolds against the backdrop of an intensifying struggle between American imperialism and rising Chinese imperialism. Throughout 2025, the Trump administration pursued a hardline policy toward China and its allies. To this end, the US imposed trade tariffs, pressured Russia, and launched strikes against Iran.
Venezuela is part of the Chinese bloc, representing its interests in South America. The signing of a strategic agreement with China's CCRC in 2024 has created the threat of Washington completely losing control over Venezuelan oil.
The conflict was preceded by months of secret negotiations between the Venezuelan and US leadership. From 2017 to 2025, the governments of both countries maintained regular contact.
In the fall of 2025, information about possible agreement options emerged. Maduro considered signing oil supply contracts with American corporations and gradually stepping down from power over the next few years. Maduro's willingness to make a deal with the US exposed the hypocrisy of the Venezuelan bourgeoisie, for whom maintaining power and profits is more important than any supposedly "anti-imperialist" rhetoric.
In early September, the United States strengthened its military presence in the Caribbean. In November and December, the American fleet began a blockade of the Venezuelan coast. After the invasion began, information emerged about plans to strike Venezuela in late December.
On the eve of the escalation, on January 2, 2026, Maduro met with China's special representative. During the meeting, hundreds of bilateral agreements were discussed, cementing military and economic cooperation between Venezuela and China.
III. The Goals of American Imperialism
The lightning strike, which Trump called "well-planned", has three specific objectives:
1. Moving Venezuela out of Chinese and Russian influence, ensuring monopoly access to oil for US corporations such as Chevron and ExxonMobil.
2. Diverting the American working class's attention from rising unemployment, inflation, rising prices, and the crisis. Through a "small victorious war", American capitalists led by Trump are attempting to instill social chauvinism in the working class and create the image of America returning to its "traditional" role – an aggressive imperialist, capable of defending its interests by force anywhere on the planet.
3. Internationally, the American bourgeoisie and Trump are sending a signal to rising imperialist China and all its weaker opponents in the region and globally. Now the bourgeoisie of dependent and semi-dependent states will be forced to reckon with the possibility of a repeat of the "Venezuela scenario".
Almost simultaneously with the attack on China's ally in South America, protests are unfolding in Iran. Trump has already declared his readiness to "come to the aid" of the protesters.
The justification for the invasion, citing "execution of an arrest warrant", contrasts with the US administration's actions regarding the International Criminal Court. After issuing an arrest warrant for the leader of US-ally Israel for aggression in the Gaza Strip, Trump imposed sanctions against the ICC. This confirms that "international law" is a fiction, valid only when it benefits a major imperialist.
IV. The Collapse of the Maduro Regime
Beginning in 2026 with a military strike against part of the Chinese imperialist bloc, the United States demonstrates the main trend of the current moment: the crisis of capitalism leads to an escalation of contradictions between blocs. This escalation manifests itself in an increasing number of wars and targeted military actions.
The swift operation by American troops will set an example for other capitalists. The normalization of attacks on the leadership of hostile bloc states leads to further escalation of tensions, new escalations, and wars.
The speed of the January 3 operation was due not only to the US military and technical superiority but also to the lack of mass support for the Maduro regime among the Venezuelan proletariat. The bourgeois regime pursued anti-labor policies, eroded workers' real incomes through hyperinflation, and suppressed independent trade unions and communists.
Maduro couldn't count on popular resistance. The Venezuelan bourgeoisie, including the upper echelons of the ‘United Socialist Party of Venezuela’ and the military, created the conditions for a successful foreign invasion through corruption and economic sabotage.
It is necessary to decisively expose the illusions about the "socialist nature" of the Maduro government. The petty-bourgeois concept of "21st-century socialism" has proven in practice to be a cover for classic state-monopoly capitalism.
The key means of production were controlled either by private capital or by the bourgeoisie, fused with the state apparatus. Nationalization, without changing production relations, merely transferred exploitation to the state as the collective capitalist.
It's noteworthy that the theory and practice of "Chavismo" received support from a number of Trotskyist movements. Nicolás Maduro himself published materials in support of Trotsky and called him "one of the great Marxists of the 20th century".
In an attempt to cling to power, the regime resorted to bourgeois nationalism, threatening to annex parts of Guyana. This adventurism was necessary both to distract Venezuelan workers from domestic problems and rally them around the flag of the bourgeois state, and to strengthen the position of the Venezuelan bourgeoisie.
The Maduro regime's entire "anti-imperialist" rhetoric boiled down to bargaining and maneuvering between major imperialists, handing over oil contracts first to the American Chevron, then to the Chinese CCRC. The class essence of capitalism remained unchanged.
V. The Position of the Communists
1. Condemnation of US imperialist aggression and support for Venezuelan workers.
2. No support for the bourgeois regime of Venezuela, which exploits the working class, bans strikes and suppresses communists, nor for the bourgeois “opposition” and other pro-capitalist forces.
3. The only way out for Venezuelan workers is to create a real communist party and fight for socialism, together with workers of all countries.
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The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party, or without the fullest and unreserved support from the entire mass of the working class, that is, from all thinking, honest, devoted and influential elements in it, capable of leading the backward strata or carrying the latter along with them.
Vladimir Lenin, “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder
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“We are very glad not to belong to the liberal company of “honest” people and to those they regard as “honest”. We would consider it a dishonour to belong to such people. We are convinced that only utterly na\"ive or foolish people can believe in the “impartiality” of the liberal bourgeois, especially where the working-class movement for emancipation, i. e., its movement against the bourgeoisie, is concerned.”
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“Opportunism means sacrificing the permanent and essential interests of the party to momentary, transient and minor interests.”
Vladimir. Lenin, The Russian Radical Is Wise After the Event
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We congratulate all comrades on the New Year and wish new successes in reviving the communist movement.
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Trump promised a stronger economy at the start of 2025. Yet workers continue to face high prices and rising unemployment.
Details. Employment growth slowed in 2025 and is trending toward 0% (www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/economic-s…. Trump’s deportations have removed roughly 750,000 (www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/economic-s…) migrants from the labour force, while expanded (www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-study-finds-ai-can-alr…) AI adoption, mass layoffs, and economic uncertainty continue to threaten millions with unemployment (edition.cnn.com/2025/05/29/tech/ai-anthropic-ceo-d….
► Average inflation reached 3% (www.cnbc.com/2025/10/24/inflation-breakdown-septem…, while prices for key goods (e.g., coffee) rose by over 10% (www.cnbc.com/2025/10/24/inflation-breakdown-septem…. The Consumer Price Index peaked (tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-price-…) in September at 324.8, up from 315.61 in December 2024, indicating a significant increase in the overall cost of living. Meanwhile, 83% (www.remitly.com/blog/finance/us-emergency-savings-…) of hourly workers have less than $500 in savings, and minimum-wage workers ($7.25/hour) now live below (www.epi.org/blog/the-federal-minimum-wage-is-offic…) the poverty line.
► The national debt rose (factually.co/fact-checks/politics/how-much-did-tru…) from $36.22 trillion to $38 trillion, with the budget deficit hitting $1.4–1.8 trillion. Most spending cuts targeted social programs (us.politsturm.com/us-bill-slashes-spending-and-exp…, while about $1 trillion (us.politsturm.com/trump-renames-department-of-defe…) was allocated to the military.
► 60% of Americans remain concerned (us.politsturm.com/america-first-fails-to-convince-…) about the current economic situation. Recently, Trump acknowledged (www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/17/us/trump-address-n…) failing to address these problems, lower prices, or secure jobs, yet blamed former President Biden for the situation.
Context. Trump’s campaign and administration centred on promises of a “Golden Age (www.whitehouse.gov/issues/)” following Biden’s predictable failures (us.politsturm.com/bidens-farewell) to resolve capitalism’s contradictions. Promises of tax cuts (edition.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/heres-what-tru…, job creation (edition.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/heres-what-tru…, and lower prices (www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-12-19/trump-af…) were paired, once in office, with selective data and rhetoric designed to mislead workers.
► Amid these promises, 52% (news.gallup.com/poll/651719/economy-important-issu…) of American voters supported Trump primarily because of the economic solutions he proposed.
► Trump promised more affordable (edition.cnn.com/2024/11/06/politics/heres-what-tru…) housing and healthcare. While rents (www.realtor.com/research/october-2025-rent/) and some drug prices (www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/12/19/t…) fell slightly, high mortgage costs (www.mpamag.com/us/mortgage-industry/market-updates…) and limited healthcare coverage (www.biopharmadive.com/news/trump-most-favored-nati…) remained.
► In November, the White House highlighted selective price declines and real wage gains measured from an inflation-depressed baseline as “big progress (www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/11/were-making-bi… concealing the permanently higher cost of living for workers.
► In December, the administration claimed (www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/12/private-sector…) “100% private-sector job growth,” and for “native-born Americans — NOT illegals,” meaning all new jobs recorded were outside the public sector, while failing to mention that overall job growth remained weak (www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/economic-s….
► The administration presented (www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/the-one-big-be…) the One Big Beautiful Bill (us.politsturm.com/us-bill-slashes-spending-and-exp…) as reducing spending and national debt for Americans’ benefit. In reality, it increased deficits, prioritised militarisation, and shifted the burden onto social spending cuts.
Important to Know. The outcomes of Trump’s rule are predictable. His economic agenda advances the interests of the American capitalist class. Tax cuts, deregulation, tariffs, militarisation (us.politsturm.com/tech-executives-commissioned-int…, and selective interventions all protect capital and increase profits while transferring costs to working-class households.
► Trump’s program is also conditioned by global economic stagnation. The World Bank describes the current period as the slowest growth (unctad.org/news/global-economy-under-pressure-coul…) since the 1960s. Falling demand (www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2025/06/10…) sharpens the imperialist crisis (us.politsturm.com/us-military-requests-massive-wal…, intensifies inter-capitalist competition, and compels heightened exploitation and conflict to defend capital accumulation.
► Workers face intensified exploitation, higher living costs, and limited access to affordable housing and healthcare, whilst a bipartisan ideological offensive (us.politsturm.com/white-house-and-democrats-unite-…) was launched against the broad left (us.politsturm.com/trump-targets-left-under-antifa-…, with communists (us.politsturm.com/trump-and-democrats-exchange-com…) being targeted (us.politsturm.com/trump-launches-anti-communism-we…) as a result.
► The Democrats (us.politsturm.com/democrats-may-look-to-harris-to-…) gained popularity (us.politsturm.com/left-wing-opposition-grows) by promoting populist left-wing candidates, such as Mamdani (us.politsturm.com/mamdani-wins-new-york-election), to exploit Trump’s unpopularity, promising to “fix” capitalism through moderate reforms – just as Trump promised a “Golden Age” amid Biden’s failures. By advocating reforms that leave private property and capitalist accumulation intact, these reformists (us.politsturm.com/discontent-with-capitalism-fuele…) advance the stability and interests of the capitalist class, not the working class.
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In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favourable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic republic. But this democracy is always hemmed in by the narrow limits set by capitalist exploitation, and consequently always remains, in effect, a democracy for the minority, only for the propertied classes, only for the rich. – Vladimir Lenin, "The State and Revolution".
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