Artificial Intelligence could guarantee basic needs for everyone. Fascism is AI in the wrong hands – capitalist corporations. Successfully resistance will require working class unity.
As technology replaces people “these bastards are stealing money from the poor
for the 1%”. Survival, and justice, depend on workers fighting fascism as a class.
Trump’s vendetta against Chicago began in his first term, when its people repeatedly expressed their hatred for his policies with mass protests, actually forcing Trump to cancel his appearance at the UIC Forum. Now ICE raids schools as families drop off and pick up their children. Veterans for Peace called on Illinois Governor Pritzker to offer sanctuary if members of the National Guard refuse to go to Chicago.
Artificial Intelligence could guarantee basic needs for everyone. Fascism is AI in the wrong hands – capitalist corporations. Successfully resistance will require working class unity.
As technology replaces people “these bastards are stealing money from the poor
for the 1%”. Survival, and justice, depend on workers fighting fascism as a class.
This is class warfare – taking over the media and universities while Democrats just
compromise. An offensive against fascism can start the offensive against capitalism.
The Border Patrol was pushed out of the Bay Area by thousands uniting beyond race and
immigration status. Unity can win a nation based on human needs instead of private profit.
Trump’s attacks on universities reveal how fascism operates with open criminality, facilitated by the politics of compromise of university leaders and corporate Democrats. Attacking equity and inclusion means that treating all people equally is formally rejected. MAGA offers only the rhetoric of white supremacy, since most working class whites won’t be able to afford higher ed or other “privileges.”
Automation is polarizing humanity into one camp possessing the vast wealth of society and the other without adequate means of survival. As this polarization becomes more extreme, the struggle for basic necessities must move from trying to reform the system toward revolutionary transformation.
Trump’s vendetta against Chicago began in his first term, when its people repeatedly expressed their hatred for his policies with mass protests, actually forcing Trump to cancel his appearance at the UIC Forum. Now ICE raids schools as families drop off and pick up their children. Veterans for Peace called on Illinois Governor Pritzker to offer sanctuary if members of the National Guard refuse to go to Chicago.
In Chicago and New York the idea of “public wealth for public good” has led to calls for city-run grocery stores and fare-free transit. This challenges the belief that basic survival must be monetized. Can city government become a builder and provider – not to extract profit, but to deliver justice?
From the Editors: This poem was submitted to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Katrina disaster and the people’s heroic struggle.
Searise
In a thousand years
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