What might a Chinese leftist say about President Trump's announcement of the United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement?
That it simply serves to confirm two points which we have made all along about the US' so-called "democracy."
One, capitalism is not compatible with true democracy. The political superstructure of American life—which falsely claims itself to be a shining example of a government built on universal values—is actually built on an inherently unstable and exploitative foundation, i.e., the capitalist mode of production. The American Revolution was a bourgeois revolution intended to secure the rights of the bourgeoisie. Far from representing the rebirth of liberty in the modern era, it marked the beginning of a process through which the modern bourgeois form of production, i.e., capitalism, would come into being in North America. This was entirely in accordance with the laws of history. But as America has not yet had a proletarian revolution, it lags behind the cutting edge of history, still languishing in the mire of so-called "liberal democracy." Nearly 70% of Americans support staying in the Paris Agreement, yet President Trump, supposedly elected in accordance with the will of the people, has disregarded their will. Why? Quite obviously, because he actually represents the interests of the capitalist class, who have captured the government, as happens in all so-called "liberal" societies.
Two, the American constitution of government is unscientific and unstable. The political parties of the United States are not true democratic parties (in the sense of representing the interests of the people). Rather, they compete to represent the interests of the capitalist class. The US government shifts willy-nilly from policy to policy every four years in accordance with which segment of the capitalist class has captured power for that period of time. As capitalism is an irrational system of production, the political superstructure is equally irrational, with the result that it is impossible to predict what policy the US government will follow next.
