Trump Goes to Ohio, Capitalist Economy Gets Worse

On a Saturday in October, president Trump campaigned in Ohio, but reality got in the way. The previous Wednesday nearly 1,400 workers were laid off from the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio. The Dayton area has shed about half the 90,000 factory jobs it had in 1990. The workers in the region did not find new work because capitalists could not make fat profits off their labor. After the industrial stage, capitalism cannot take society forward to the era of plenty that awaits. It has only stagnation of labor earnings, the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands, and all-round social decay to offer.

In Montgomery County, Ohio, the sheriff saw what happened as early as 2008: “My jail was 40% drug addicts, 50% mental health patients, 10% criminals.”

The United States began with the 1775 Revolution; upon its victory, class rule was parceled between Northern capitalists who exploited wage labor and Southern plantation owners who exploited slave labor. Then manufacturing expanded in the North, while planters had to seize new cotton lands. This contradiction was resolved in the Civil War. Now all presidents are executive servants of the capitalist class.

The only way out is that we educate, organize, and fight to overthrow capitalism and take the socialist-communist path. For most of U.S. history, communists kept the flame alive, but the working class was not ready. That is changing fast.