Sochi, Russia, by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Nov 6. 2024
After the emergence of the Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the rise of the far right across Europe, the election of a Mussolini admirer as Prime Minister of Italy, after the entry of the Israeli far right into the government it is now a politician of the Far, “radical” Right who was elected President of the United States.
Donald Trump’s victory is, in many ways, a victory for Benjamin Netanyahu, whose instrument Trump has been during his stay in office and who helped in a very essential way his election. Netanyahu represents the most radical, almost “neo-nazi” wind of the “International of Finance”, the real center of power often above the states. Trump’s election reflects not only the rise of an antisystemic vote, which is going to the right given there is no left to go, but also the shifts within the global oligarchy of Money and Information, which seems to move massively towards the search for more authoritarian and totalitarian solutions to the multi-level, systemic crisis of Western Capitalism that is constantly deepening.
Trump’s victory will further facilitate Israeli crimes against humanity in the Middle East and will increase the chances of a regional, possibly nuclear, war in the Middle East against Iran.
The Biden administration has done nothing of substance for the environment. A Trump administration will likely put the planet on the path of irreversible climate change that will destroy humanity.
As far as Ukraine is concerned, we cannot be sure what will happen. Here Trump has indicated that he is probably seeking to stop the war, and has even promised to stop it in 24 hours if he is elected President and even before he is sworn in. “I don’t expect anything from Trump,” Professor Karaganov, honorary chairman of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, tells us here in Sochi, where we are attending the annual Valdai Forum conference. According to senior Russian officials, Trump’s envoys have already traveled to Moscow, promising to lift sanctions and wanting, in exchange for a settlement of the Ukrainian issue, for Russia to abandon its allies, China and Iran. “We will never do it,” a Russian official here in Sochi tells us, “better a reliable ally than an unreliable enemy”. By the way it was during the Trump presidency, and while the American president was creating the image (or was accused of) being pro-Russian, the US armed to the teeth Ukraine preparing it for the conflict it followed and did nothing for a peaceful solution through implementation of the Minsk agreement. They also did not repudiate the orientation towards NATO membership. It was under Trump that were laid the prerequisites for the war that followed.
In relation to China, we can expect intensified competition, and Trump will probably impose tariffs on European products as well.
Inside the US, Trump’s promise to cut corporate taxes will translate into further demolition of the welfare state and impoverishment of the US popular strata, possibly leading to violent social and political conflicts
The rise of the Far Right in America will no doubt facilitate the rise of authoritarianism and neo-fascist forces throughout the world, with obvious dangers for civilisation and the very survival of humanity.
One lesson of the elections is that it is not possible for the ‘extreme centre’ and the ‘(neo-)liberal globalists’ to halt the rise of Fascism, which reflects the deep deadlock of the dominant capitalist system, evolving into ‘Destruction Capitalism’. Authoritarian, far right and overly fascist solution suit the political needs of present-day capitalism.
To stop this course would require a programmatically very serious radical left, with deep links to the popular masses, international networking networking and perspective, determined to break with the system.
Trump’s triumph is also the result of the failure, the inability to provide answers to the crisis, the defeats and the humiliating compromises and capitulations of the existing supposed ‘radical left’, namely Syriza, Podemos, Sanders, Corbyn.
In particular, it is also the result of the pro-war, pro-imperialist and pro-NATO stance adopted by the left of the Democratic Party (as well as Europe, with minor exceptions), which pushed part of the pacifist voters to support Trump (as well as far-right parties in Europe) permitting him to present himself as a kind of a … pacifist, in one of the biggest political fraudes in world History.
If this attitude does not change new political disasters await the Western Left.
However, one positive aspect of Trump’s election is that it has demonstrated the opposition of the majority of the American people to America’s and NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine. This opposition will make it difficult for the newly elected President if he wants to follow Biden’s policies.
Only the building of an entirely different left can stop the march to the Far Right.
A century ago, the rise of the Far Right endangered our civilization. With the productive forces and technologies we now possess, it threatens the very survival of the human race.
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