Programmed chaos overwhelms Trump

01.May.25    english
   

Trump is no extremist. He deliberately provokes a crisis in order to attempt the hegemonic restoration of the dollar. His protectionism is as ineffective as his claim to relocate companies that are only profitable abroad. Direct confrontation with China comes late and with visible disadvantages. He resorts to nostalgic imperial language that does not remedy economic decline and military failures, while the prospects of inflation and recession are exacerbating internal tensions. With ethnocentric rhetoric, he is reviving Bonapartist attempts and combining his lumpen-capitalist trajectory with new digital power projects. Local and global resistance is beginning to undermine his authoritarian pretensionsLeer texto completo [PDF]