A Tale of Two Trumps: War Plan Red

The geopolitical analysis presented by Susan Kokinda of Promethean PAC in the video is very different from what we hear from the other analysts we have been posting here, except for Alex Krainer, who completely agrees with her. The question she wants us to ask here is whether Trump is leading a real second American revolution against the British financial Empire that has been controlling the US both politically and economically since the end of WW2. She does make some pretty convincing points, especially to me, an old Marxist-Leninist socialist. Yet all the genuine socialists I know are saying the opposite of what Susan and Alex are saying. People like Michael Hudson, Richard Wolff, Garland Nixon, Danny Haiphong, Brian Berletic, Joti Brar etc. are all saying the opposite, that the Trump administration is the nakedly fascistic expression of an empire in the last phases of collapse. Both sides agree that the Western Empire is collapsing because of its own unsustainable financial system that burdens the economy with debt rather than making productive investments. Both sides agree that the first American revolution against the British Empire was successful in kicking out the British. From a Marxist viewpoint, it was the first successful anti-imperialist, anticolonial revolution.

Now, no Marxist I know of, except me, is saying that the result was the world’s first socialist republic, but that is essentially what I’m saying, because the financial system of the new republic was organized by Alexander Hamilton and his successors to counter British financial control of the economy. This new system of economy was called the American System by its advocates, including Hamilton, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln, as well as prominent economists and statesmen like Henry Carey and Daniel Webster. They created a national bank to invest in the US economy without help from British usurers, and the US money supply had the Constitutional power to “coin”, that is create money to finance these economic development projects with the consent of Congress. That is how the US government was supposed work, and I call it socialism because its essential characteristic was control of the money supply for the benefit of the American people. That system produced great success in the 19th century, during which it slowly deteriorated under various forms of British attack. The second Bank of the United States was dismantled by Andrew Jackson, even though he  fought the British in the War of 1812, he nonetheless acted as a British asset when he became President. It still functioned without it, but the system was finally completely demolished under Woodrow Wilson and the sold-out US Congress in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act, which allowed the British bankers and their US partners to take over the US treasury and the money supply. This led to the Great Depression of the 30’s, and this in turn led to Franklin Roosevelt’s accession to power and his partial restoration of the American System which led to the real restoration of the American economy which led to the victory of the United States in the war against fascism and imperialism. But the Empire led at the time by Winston Churchill, had by no means given up trying to return the US to colonial status and to destroy the Soviet Union, and with FDR now dead (possibly successfully poisoned) continued with Operation Unthinkable, which, if you have not heard of it, Susan Kokinda describes in the video below.

Is Trump a fascist or is he leading a second American revolution? It is very much worth your time to watch if you are any kind of thinking person, no matter what you now believe, because it makes you think seriously about the most basic geopolitical issue of our time.