"We are living through a profound struggle over power in the United States, one that will determine whether we can achieve what several have called the "Third Reconstruction" or a further erosion of the democratic practices that remain under the weight of concentrated wealth and racial authoritarian consolidation. In this struggle, labor's role in organizing people is key. But this opportunity will not actualize itself. It requires investment, leadership, strategic campaigns, and an expansive vision of solidarity that reaches well beyond the union hall."
"Although often presented as values neutral, today's economy isn't just unequal by accident. It has been designed for extraction. As W. E. B. Du Bois recognized almost a century ago in Black Reconstruction in America,1860-1880, concentrated wealth is concentrated power, and concentrated power is fundamentally incompatible with multiracial democracy. What we call Trumpism and the MAGA movement represents the acceleration, not the origin, of racial authoritarian tendencies that have been building for decades. The current regime doesn't merely tolerate inequality; it depends on it."
Movement power is fundamentally about organized people and organized money. The United States faces a struggle over power that will determine whether a Third Reconstruction succeeds or whether democratic practices further erode under concentrated wealth and racial authoritarian consolidation. Labor organizing plays a central role in mobilizing people, but realizing this opportunity requires sustained investment, leadership, strategic campaigns, and an expansive vision of solidarity that extends beyond union halls. The contemporary economy was designed for extraction, concentrating wealth and power in ways incompatible with multiracial democracy. Trumpism and MAGA accelerate longstanding racial authoritarian tendencies and depend on deepening inequality.
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