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Following closely after the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s home, but also along the same pattern as the Alexandra Ocasio Cortez victory against the 4th ranking Democrat and 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley, the GOP majority leader Eric Cantor’s loss to a Tea Party candidate, the defeat in primaries of Buffalo mayor by a socialist candidate, the suspicious accident that befell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as well as, of course, Donald Trump’s victory against the slate of mainstream Republicans with actual political experience both in campaigning and holding an elected office; we note a general pattern of aggression against the top leaders of the political establishment. This aggression will only intensify unless the root cause finds redress, namely the inability of capitalists to distinguish between private property and political office. Millions of dollars do not confer to an individual social status under a system where oligarchs, corporations, and banks as well as the military have hundreds of billions of dollars at their disposal to influence the media and elections as they please. The ability to spend $100,000 to win an election or to use a personal fortune combined with promises and hints does not equate to political support. The fraud committed by the establishment as well as the police and corporate-financed Nanobureaucracy running the revolutionary movement does, in fact, harm victims who will, in fact, take action despite the inaction of the courts and “the law.”
The key to success for the revolutionary movement will not be to give in to terrorist arguments nor to go along with the giant fraud. Revolutionaries must expose this shell game to the widest possible audience so as to build support for a new, revolutionary government that will take the initiative to prosecute fraud even when committed by millionaires against the working class. Fascists will attempt to channel the anger into racist or terrorist attacks, but this will only lead the country down the same road the Nazis took Germany, defeat in a world war at the cost of tens of millions of lives, the division of the country into East and West, and the protection of top Nazis themselves through appointment to high offices within the “new” establishment. Revolutionaries have faith in the working class to remember this outcome from 80 years ago and take the road of the Fourth International, in opposition to bureaucracy within the revolutionary movement and the imperialist war produced by capitalism.


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