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Trump and the end of American imperialism
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Trump and the end of American imperialism
Trump’s counter-revolution spells the end of America ! Now is the time for the revolutionary proletariat to put an end to imperialist domination of the world…
All commentators, from Democrats to reformists, from the left to unionists and the pseudo-far left, never cease to lament the wickedness of Trump and all the evils that are befalling us and are yet to come. They denounce, they complain, they accuse, they predict the worst possible outcome. But they do not predict the best possible outcome. Indeed ! It is not in calm, peaceful circumstances that people are likely to challenge the established order ; it is not when this order does not require counter-revolution that a proletarian, social, and socialist revolution is possible. Yes, Trump shows us that the ruling classes resort to extreme solutions and that the working people of the world will have to do the same in the times to come. The responsibility of true revolutionaries is to prepare for this, and first and foremost by understanding the dead end that capitalism and American imperialism, which has dominated the world for so long, have reached…
Understanding the impasse of the capitalist system and imperialism must lead us to use them as weapons to overthrow it, not as lamentations to flood it with our tears ! In revolutionary politics (that is, Marxist, Leninist, and Trotskyist), the weaknesses of the adversary must be transformed into conscious revolutionary weapons to demolish the enemy, which absolutely requires a radical struggle waged against the reformists (and their disguised allies, the opportunists) who prevent the proletariat from carrying out this class politics. Where we see a crack, we must widen it ; where we see a chasm, we must push the wealthy into it ; where we see debts, we take advantage of it to destroy the credibility of the ruling classes ; if the banks falter, we finish them off by massively withdrawing our money ; we boycott, we block, we destroy the system, we demoralize its soldiers and its police, we win them over to social change, we win over the part of the middle classes that suffers harshly from the system like the workers, we turn all attacks against the State and the system around, we do not seek to improve, to patch up, to save the established order and we denounce the reformists and opportunists who do.
In this case, the question posed in this article is : how to use Trump’s policies to destroy American imperialism and imperialism in general.
Among the many manifestations of the shift in leadership methods in the US, Trump is cutting off international aid to poor countries. But this is already backfiring on the US’s interests in the world because American "aid" was nothing more than a justification for the plundering of the world by American corporations, a guarantee for the pro-imperialist governments of poor countries ! In doing so, Trump threatens not only to plunge entire populations even deeper into poverty, but also, consequently, to clog the very channels that carry the world’s wealth to… the US.
By attacking China with an intense economic and diplomatic war, Trump is harming the massive American profits that came from the "workshop of the world," that is, from the overexploited proletarians of China.
Multiple threats of armed intervention against countries like Iran or Venezuela are pushing them into the arms of the opposing imperialist bloc.
Yet, Trump’s proclaimed program was to restore the USA’s strength and dominance over the world…
Because, in recent years, American imperialism has been steadily losing ground. Its debts, the decline of its industry, the weakness of its currency, the division of its population into two hostile blocs that go beyond the political opposition between Democrats and Republicans, the economic and social chasm between rich and poor, the inexorable social decline of the poorest in the US, the growing challenge to American global dominance—all of this already pointed to the critical difficulties facing American imperialism, and not just its confrontation with the Russia/China bloc. The rise of revolts and revolutions around the world following the financial and economic collapse of 2007-2008 (which the US could only delay by exacerbating the foundations of the inevitable collapse through massive financial interventions by central banks and governments) showed that the US no longer had the means to carry out its policies. It was even forced to abandon certain direct military interventions.
It is this critical situation in the US, both domestically and internationally, that Trump’s policy is supposed to address.
https://alencontre.org/laune/la-strategie-de-trump-pour-reaffirmer-la-domination-americaine-i.html
This is the stated goal of "America First," "America First," "Restoring America to First Place," whether it concerns the new policy against immigration, against international aid, against public health, the new American budget, the nuclear arms race, the economic and customs war, the aggressiveness in international relations, including towards former Western allies.
Trump’s aggressiveness, both domestic and international, is designed to hide this weakness by making people believe that verbal and physical violence is a sign of strength... And his supposed opponents from the left and the center, reformists and opportunists, spread this lie.
Connections between the US and the rest of the world had declined significantly, particularly after the 2007 economic downturn and the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump’s policies are only further disrupting or straining them. This is the strategy of "the US against the rest of the world."
https://www.allnews.ch/content/points-de-vue/etats-unis-contre-le-reste-du-monde
Trump’s demagogic thesis is that the American people are victims of the rest of the world, a curious reversal of reality…
In fact, it was the plundering of the world that enriched America, and it is thanks to the opening of borders—known as trade liberalization and globalization—that American imperialism has imposed itself on the world in recent years. Trump is revising all of this in reverse, but there’s no guarantee that American corporations will benefit from it, nor that American global domination will be maintained.
And this domination didn’t wait for Trump to become imperialist and ultra-violent. The people of the world know something about it, as almost all poor countries have already suffered destructive armed interventions by the US or direct support for local dictatorships and the plundering of their resources.
But what is true is that these old methods are becoming obsolete or, at the very least, are greatly weakened. The US no longer has the financial, political, economic, and military means for such global interventionism.
It is certain that the weakness of US imperialism plays a significant role in the rise of China and Russia in the economic, financial, monetary, geopolitical, and military spheres. The American market is now facing competition from a Russo-Chinese market, and the American currency is also beginning to face competition.
The war in Ukraine was not the defeat the US and Europe had hoped for. And Trump is trying to extricate himself from this mess unscathed, pretending to be fighting only for peace. Just as he is trying to save Netanyahu, a valuable ally, but also Hamas, the second most powerful far-right fascist force that Trump supports, all while pretending to be fighting only for peace in the Middle East.
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7348
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article6724
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article3144
Just as he is trying to save Netanyahu, a valuable ally, but also Hamas, the second far-right fascist force that Trump supports, while pretending that he is only fighting for peace in the Middle East.
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article8441
While the United States provides 40% of global humanitarian aid, its sudden withdrawal creates a vacuum that its enemies, including China, Cuba, Iran, and Russia, will rush to fill.
The Trump administration is destroying everything that makes America great... global influence of the United States, stability and prosperity.
This is the self-destruction of American imperialism.
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/02/05/trump-destruction-spectaculaire/
The United States has lost influence on the international stage
Donald Trump, or the Suicide of the American Empire : “Despite this display of power, the billionaire’s frenetic and contradictory initiatives are shaking the Maga (Make America Great Again) dream that had galvanized his voters. American hard power is struggling with allies, particularly those in NATO, who feel insecure and increasingly doubt the strength of Article 5 on mutual assistance in the event of aggression. His policies are also alarming Asian allies, including the most loyal ones like Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. He has disrupted the international economic and trade system and diminished the global dominance of the dollar. The record is even more damning for American soft power with the dismantling of USAID, the federal agency for international cooperation, which was a powerful vector of influence.” The withdrawal from UNESCO, the WHO, and the Paris Agreement on climate change, which he reiterated at the beginning of his second term in the White House, has further shaken the "Pax Americana" and the international order established around the United States after the Second World War.
https://www.challenges.fr/monde/donald-trump-ou-le-suicide-de-lempire-americain_620590
While he has pretended to be a pacifist, Trump is threatening destructive economic warfare and even military action against numerous countries, from Greenland to Canada, from Panama to Mexico and Venezuela, from Iran to South Africa, from India to North Korea, from Russia to Nigeria and the Middle East and even Europe…
Trump threatens Venezuela
Trump threatens Nigeria
Trump threatens Canada
Trump threatens Iran
Trump threatens South Africa
Trump threatens Greenland
https://euractiv.fr/news/leurope-reagit-aux-menaces-de-donald-trump-a-lencontre-du-groenland/
Trump threatens Panama
Trump threatens Mexico
Trump threatens India
Trump threatens Europe
Trump threatens Russia
https://fr.euronews.com/2025/10/13/trump-menace-la-russie-avec-lenvoi-des-tomahawks-a-lukraine
Trump threatens China
Trump threatens Spain
Trump threatens England
America thus isolates itself and appears alone… to the world… And it paves the way for the opposing imperialist bloc.
“Restoring America’s leadership,” as Trump proclaims, would require colossal expenditures that the American budget no longer allows. On the contrary, Trump must combat the state’s financial collapse, maintain some reserves to cope with the coming economic and financial meltdown heralded by the fall of cryptocurrencies and regional American banks, as well as the speculative bubble in artificial intelligence. And he still needs to provide massive support to his domestic capitalists, particularly by financing the arms industry. This leaves him little room to fund a new era of American global domination…
Trump’s strategy threatens to turn into the opposite of his stated goals : he is isolating the US, breaking its old ties with its allies, letting its enemies expand at its expense, making the US even more unstable and dictatorial, creating new enemies for it, increasing the risks of internal civil war, militarizing the country, and transforming all geopolitics into confrontations against the US.
Trump is killing America
https://www.wsws.org/fr/articles/2025/10/17/pers-o17.html
Donald Trump is undermining the international order built by his predecessors since World War II. But in trade, finance, and the fight against global warming, a new order is emerging, without the United States.
https://www.lesechos.fr/2018/05/le-monde-sans-lamerique-972655
Imperialism is in full decline, and the clashes between the two imperialist blocs are not strengthening imperialist control over the world. It is therefore reasonable to think that it is time for the revolutionary proletariat to take advantage of the weaknesses, flaws, fissures, and destruction wrought by the prison of peoples that imperialism represents.
Trump is acting recklessly at the helm of American power, and commentators and the public have reason to complain, but there is a rationale behind capitalist heads of state acting recklessly, like Modi at the head of India, Netanyahu at the head of Israel, Erdogan at the head of Turkey, and Milei at the head of Argentina. Just as Hitler acted recklessly at the head of Germany and then Europe. This rationale is that of a capitalist economy that seems insane, betting all its money on counterfeit currencies and highly risky speculations, while it no longer wants to (in fact, can no longer) invest in production that creates surplus value extracted from human labor, truly creating additional value. Trump’s rationale is the mad dash of a dying capitalism that wants to lead the people to their deaths as well.
Trump plays the violent and provocative tough guy, but in doing so he hides a growing powerlessness in the face of the growing contradictions of the global system and the American economy.
Trump pretends to threaten other states first, particularly those in the opposing imperialist bloc of Russia/China, but his real target is the people, the revolts, the social revolution. Even the world war, with which he threatens the planet by resuming the nuclear arms race, aims to conceal the economic and social collapse of capitalism and the collapse of American imperialist power. However, Trump’s bluffing cannot deceive the workings of the economy, let alone stimulate it. Going against globalization means harming the short- and long-term interests of American capitalists themselves. And this risks hastening the moment of global financial collapse. From this perspective, competing or hostile imperialisms are all tied by the same rope to the same Titanic of capitalism. They may try to divide the world amongst themselves, but there is only one ship of the capitalist system. They stay afloat for a few years or sink together.
Behind the false flag of "making America greater," Trump’s real aim is to fuel social counter-revolution in the face of rising social revolt. He thus allows the struggle against capitalism to be disguised as a struggle "against Trump." Instead of a proletarian social and political struggle, it would be merely a bourgeois "democratic" struggle, compatible with American capitalism. This is what a segment of the "no kings, no dictatorship, no fascism !" movement desires. But "evil" isn’t just Trump ; it’s the living-dead capitalism that wants to throw us into its grave !
His predecessors tried to make people believe that their numerous "rescue plans" were meant to pull capitalism out of a "systemic crisis," but it was merely a matter of postponing the inevitable. Trump is trying to make people believe he’s going to "save America," but this is once again about postponing the inevitable and using this policy to strengthen and radicalize the counter-revolution. For our part, let’s take advantage of this to strengthen the revolutionary camp. And first and foremost, by understanding the stakes, the goals, the strengths, and the weaknesses of both the Capitalist and Laborist camps…
The left tries to make people believe that what’s at stake isn’t revolution, but Trump knows that his most dangerous enemy in the short term isn’t China, Russia, or Iran ; it’s the social revolution brewing both in the US and around the world. That’s why his policies are primarily a counter-revolution that even challenges the very foundations of the American Revolution.
What drives Trump ? Fear of communist revolution !
https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article7892
Donald Trump institutes "an anti-communism week" !
This is what prevents the Democrats from attacking Trump too harshly : they too want to eradicate the social revolution and they cannot hinder him in this direction...
In times of acute systemic crisis, what truly unites all bourgeois parties is precisely their unwillingness to change the mode of production. They all want to save capitalism ! They unite against the proletarian revolution. The more moderate ones are quite happy to let the more hardline ones do the dirty work… What matters to them is saving the capitalist order. Democracy is merely a facade to achieve this. It’s not essential…
Most of the unions and parties that claim to be against Trump are determined to avoid developing a revolutionary perspective, and this is what completely disarms them in the face of all the Trumps around the world. The Democrats are content to capitalize on Trump’s electoral failures without lifting a finger to truly combat him. Against the fascist threat, their only proposal is the very elections that allowed this slide to happen !
There is only one proletarian policy against imperialism, which is to develop the global network of councils of workers, youth, women, the poor, peasants, small fishermen, small farmers, the unemployed, retirees, all the working people, and to aim at its seizure of power by destroying imperialism and capitalism globally and definitively !
Aside from this policy, even massive "no kings, no dictatorship !" demonstrations won’t stop the capitalist class from supporting Trump. On the contrary, they highlight the existence of a threat without actually providing the means to harm the system.
American and global imperialism must be destroyed ! We must call on the rank and file and the police to mutiny ! We must call on the working people to form their soviets and arm themselves ! Anything other than this path, all anti-Trump rhetoric, is nothing but empty lamentation !
Imperialism must be overthrown while it is in a critical situation before the situation of all peoples becomes as critical as that of the Palestinians, Yemenis, Syrians, Ukrainians or Afghans…