The second of April went into effect a metaphorical earthquake that hes sent shockwaves all throughout the world. The President of the United States (POTUS) went ahead with his «Liberation day» tariff’s, which were planned to kick the American industrial sector back into gear. These tariffs are imposed on almost every single state in the world, with very few exceptions; one among them being the Holy See (Which opens the door for some sneaky cardinal to do something very funny).
These tariffs are quite high (specially in an age of globalization) with in some instances being 40% such as in the case of Vietnam, renowned for it’s cheap labor, from which predatory capital has exploited it’s people.
These tariffs while it cannot be argued that are an egoist effort from the part of POTUS in continuation of it’s populist overtures, also suppose a great advantage for the working classes the world over.
National strenght in advantage of the weakness of economic power
Ever since the implementation of the tariffs, wall street and it’s cousins the world over are tanking, we are talking about the loss of trillions in the wallets of the wealthy, and while the cost of these loses are most likely to be beared by the state and the people (as capital always tries to hoard income and share the loses) we can also look at it from a lense of opportunity.
The age of globalization is now truly gone, and while governments occupied by capital will try to renegotiate the tariffs what lies ahead is clear, an age of «sphere’s of influence«, an age in which capital is not free to pack it up and leave to greener pastures once the national classes demand justice, an age in which the will of the worker is put beneath the power of finance. Now it is the time of the national economy, in which the state must become the intermediary of worker and finance, in which capital MUST bow to national interest, now comes the age of the black-shirt state.