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An era of instability
For over a century, the US ruling class enjoyed exceptional political stability. However, that began to unravel in 2016, when the general election brought decades of economic decline and class anger to the surface. Leaning on economic nationalism and demagogic chauvinism against immigrants, women, and other oppressed groups, Trump vowed to restore economic prosperity and put “America First.” Posturing as a bold “outsider” taking on the Washington establishment for the good of the American people, he has taken over and transformed the Republican Party.
Liberals see Trump’s rise as a random and lamentable accident, and a worrying “slide towards authoritarianism.” While some acknowledge that he has tapped into reserves of legitimate discontent, they mainly present him as a sinister individual, single-handedly capable of destroying the democratic fabric of the country. But political trends do not appear out of nowhere. For an idea to develop and take hold in society, it must offer a perceived solution to a given problem.
To understand Trump’s rise, we must start with a basic understanding of how ideas arise and function within society. Karl Marx elaborated on this in his 1859 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, writing:
In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political, and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or—this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms—with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces, these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.
In other words, ideas do not drop from the sky. They emerge in the course of social existence, which has a material, economic basis. For his message to gain an echo, Trump must have spoken to something deep-rooted within American social and economic relations. As Marxists, we must identify those “changes in the economic foundation” that have led to such a stark transformation of the American political superstructure.
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