Donald Trump, Bonapartist

 

I guess I’ll be reading The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte after I finish my taxes this weekend.

“Marx argued that in the process, Bonapartists preserve and mask the power of a narrower ruling class.” - Wikipedia 

The Surprisingly Durable Myth of Donald Trump, Anti-Imperialist + Trump’s Actual Record in Office (From Anti-imperialist Perspective)

Roosevelt was an opportunist. 🤷🏼‍♀️

For criticism of Roosevelt’s New Deal, see Michael Parenti’s Democracy for the Few, Chapter 5, under the heading The New Deal: Hard Times and Tough Reforms.

“Actually, the New Deal’s central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.” - Michael Parenti

Chapter 5 of Democracy for the Few

Keynes and The New Deal