Support us “I’m glad to say that I am not a ‘Marxist,’ given how much idiotic rubbish has been babbled by some who so label themselves,” said Karl Marx in the conversation imagined by the author. Image: AI-generated Norman Solomon: You’ve downplayed the importance of the individual in history. But the United States now has as president an individual who transformed power relations and the political landscape. Karl Marx: I can assure you that he did not do that by himself. Power relations are class relations. And by the way, I never said individuals are irrelevant to history. I exhorted individuals to get involved in changing history. NS: President Trump has rolled back gains from the last hundred years and more. Also, he’s mentally unstable, to put it mildly. KM: The basics still hold. As I wrote in 1869 about a situation in France where a cult existed around a tyrant, the class struggle “created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero’s part.” NS: But now one highly dangerous and unhinged person has taken control of the US government. And he got there with a majority of votes of the working class. It’s been a huge shock to have a virtual psychopath as president.
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