OK, Trump, What Was America Built For?

March 30, 2020 | revcom.us

 

“America was not built to be shut down.”—Donald Trump, March 23, calling for people to “pack the churches” on Easter

Then what was America “built to” do?

If you looked at the history and the present-day reality of America, you would have to think that it was built to exterminate 90 percent of the Native American Indians who lived here and dispossess and oppress those who somehow survived.

If you looked at the history and present-day reality of America, you would have to think it was built to kidnap millions of people, enslave them in unspeakable conditions for generations, and then continue to suck their blood and hold them down in new ways when the slavery ended.

You would have to think it was built to invade and plunder other countries, to murder people by the tens of millions in wars, invasions, and occupations, and to suck the blood and steal the resources of those who remained.

You would have to think it was built to enable a relative handful of capitalist-imperialists to exploit billions all over the world and right here, turning their labor into profit and then throwing them aside when they were no longer useful.

You would have to think that it was built to subjugate women, to invent new forms of humiliation and degradation, and to demonize all those who did not “fit in” to the sexual roles it decreed.

You would have to think that it was built to plunder and destroy the web of nature in an insane drive for profit, profit, and ever more profit.

“America first”? Screw you, you vicious, dangerous moron. We need a world beyond America and everything it stands for, a world of freely cooperating human beings.

We need revolution and communism.