Trump's Tariffs

Neo-Mercantilism and Class War

Morning Comrades.

Feel free to interpret today’s dispatch as a continuation of Monday’s email if only to present a reality of how none of us are ever going to be in their club and how their club is a danger to us all. Back in 2016 when Trump became US president for the first time, the majority of his campaign and subsequent presidency was built around the America First concept, and aside from the underlying insidious racism and notwithstanding the ineptitude of the enforcement thereof we are right back where we started almost ten years ago. It is fair to say that this second term will be more focused on policies that will be extremely harmful to essentially everyone not in the Trump Club, and that includes those that voted for him, only because of experience I would wager and yet it is important to expose his intentions, apparent blunders which they aren’t and what they mean.

Just recently Trump publicly said the following:

“The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER. We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy,”.

As per usual, it is important to to understand the difference between what a bourgeois politician says and ultimately does, yet this statement reflects not a deeply flawed understanding of the world, an insight into the capitalist natural character ( violence and bullying ) but also an intentional misleading of the public, whether or not they voted for him. With that, let’s get into what Tariffs are, what they mean for the working class and a brief look into the cultural historical backbone to this practice called Mercantilism.