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What historical materialism can tell us about Trump’s shutdown
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What historical materialism can tell us about Trump’s shutdown

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Carl Beijer
Jan 26, 2019
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Capitalism endlessly intensifies the suffering of the poor, places a hard ceiling on the upward mobility of the middle class, and constantly threatens to drop them back into poverty. This is why Donald Trump got elected: his opponent inspired no hope that she could fix the problem, and he offered to the Republican base a ladder of white supremacy. Trump…

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