WASHINGTON (AP) — Communism, President Donald Trump says, is the greatest threat the U.S. has ever faced.
This summer, citing similarly grave concerns, he took the rare step of delivering a primetime address to the nation, accusing China of “sinister election meddling” in 2020 and reviving his yearslong push to dispute his loss in that year’s election.
Even as Trump seeks to decry Democrats as communists ahead of November’s midterm elections, he is rolling out the red carpet this week for Chinese President Xi Jinping, the leader of the world’s most powerful communist country.
The state visit comes as the president himself has increasingly directed his administration to take large stakes in private companies to try to stimulate the economy — something even some Republicans decry as corporate socialism.
They don’t in any sense control the state. An authoritarian “vanguard party” rules on their behalf. And the commanding heights are owned by whom exactly? That same party, not the working class itself.
The CPC is a proletarian party. I think you’re confusing what class is, in Marxist analysis. The party is not its own class of people, but a subsection of the working class. If plumbers were the only ones responsible for administration, it would not be accurate to say the “plumber class” owned the means of production. Classes are relations to ownership of the means of production, and in that administrative labor is one subset of the proletariat.