According to a new Pew Research Poll, a big majority of Amerikans support the racist Arizona law. 73% approve of requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status when police demand it. 67% approve of allowing police to detain anyone who cannot verify their legal status. 62% approve of allowing police to question people they think may be in the country illegally. 59% say that after considering everything, they approve of Arizona’s new law. 32% disapprove. However, support for the law is a bit less among younger people.
These numbers should be expected. The Amerikan population, including the working class, is thoroughly reactionary. It is no surprise that the vast majority of Amerikans, instead of standing with migrants, stand against them. These confirms what Maoist-Third Worldists have said all along. When they perceive that their imperial privilege is threatened, the Amerikan worker swings toward fascism, not socialism. This is because the Amerikan worker is not a social base for socialism. The Amerikan worker has more materially and culturally in common with his own bourgeoisie than with workers in the Third World. There is no proletariat, no revolutionary agent, in the First World. Rather, the Amerikan worker is a class of exploiters like the bourgeoisie. They receive more than their share of value. They do not own vast shares of huge corporations like the bourgeoisie. Nonetheless, they are overall beneficiaries of the capitalist-imperialist system. Like their bourgeoisie, the Amerikan worker exploits the Third World. In other words, the Amerikan worker may not be driving the train, but they enjoying the ride.
In times of economic crisis, this reactionary trend will continue. Instead of challenging capitalism with the Third World proletariat, the First World worker aligns with the capitalist-imperialist system. This is why those who advocate for the First World worker as a class are advocating for imperialism and fascism, not socialism. To advocate for the First World worker is as reactionary as advocating for the First World bourgeoisie. Both are exploiter classes. It is demanding a bigger share for an exploiter class that already has more than its fair share.
Communists in the First World face tremendous challenges. They cannot rely on the natural pull of social forces to help the revolution. Instead, they have to swim against the current. Communists must organize First World peoples against their class, nation, and gender interests. Communists must find those anomalies in the First World who reject all their privilege in order to truly serve the people. Communists must design minoritarian and conspiratorial strategies. However, communists in the First World are part of the Global People’s War just as anyone else. They must do what they can, given their conditions, to advance the Global People’s War. Revolutionaries in the First World take to heart Mao’s words that revolutionaries are optimists. Few will stand with us in the First World, but billions in the Third World will stand with us.
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