The Current State of the Class Struggle in the United States

Abstract

The Bush administration’s preparations for war in Iraq provoked unease throughout theworld. After the bursting of the speculative stock market bubble associated with thenew economy and the September 11, 2001 attack, the economic and military responseof the major imperialist power has shown itself to be, more than ever, a menace tomankind. But any anti-imperialism that reduces itself to essentially a form of anti-Americanism would become a trap. It would aid the plans of the American bourgeoisieto present the population of the United States as a unified whole, nationalist andreactionary, docilely lined up behind their leaders, save for a handful of leftistintellectuals.