To understand the psychology and class role of those within the “Millennial Reich,” we must look at the timeline of America’s collapse. The edgy, pro-Atlanticist fanaticism of this layer within the millennial generation is driven by how these individuals came at the very end of America’s era of opportunities. By the time the Millennial Reich’s social base came of age in the 2010s, the proportion of Americans with access to the boomer life paths had already become quite small; the 2008 collapse dynamited the old social order, and 2020 would condemn the next generation to even greater scarcity. The response from the minority of bourgeoisified millennials has been to adopt the most extreme kind of “boomer” mindset, where they’re blaming Gen Z for its suffering while setting out to wage a new globalist holy war—i.e. the color revolution scheme which was formulated by the Obama foreign policy wing.
AOC, prime member of the Millennial Reich, recently articulated this vision for an even greater assault against the globe than the one Trump is already waging. AOC lamented how right-wing populism is holding back Washington’s ability to fight “authoritarianism”; which indicated what kind of pivot the globalist wing within our ruling class seeks to carry out. Part of AOC’s message was that Trump is too soft on Russia, which is a very common kind of bluster within ruling-class politics. But it’s doubtful that this bluster actually means the Democratic Party would go harder on Russia than Trump is, because the only way to “go harder” on Russia would be by instigating a nuclear confrontation.
Trump’s White House is already applying the maximum amount of pressure on Russia, without escalating to the point that would end the world. This is the dilemma that the imperialists face due to nuclear weapons: they can’t bring back the scale of conflict from the last two world wars, so the third world war that they’ve launched is one where they inflict destruction through other means.
It’s this project, in which capital seeks to resolve its crisis of overproduction by terrorizing the global working class, that centrally drives the Millennial Reich. Above all, its ranks seek to eliminate any opportunities for the world’s workers to assert their interests; which the Trump wing of capital obviously wants as well, but these woke millennial technocrats differ from the MAGA camp on how to accomplish that goal. This is not a small dispute, it’s something that the two wings are willing to fight a civil war over. Their core disagreements are over whether or not to keep importing mass amounts of immigrants, and whether or not to concentrate U.S. resources within NATO.
These two areas of imperial management are interconnected; the capitalist actors who believe in unmitigated migration, and who desire to bring the U.S. back into full investment within NATO, take both of these positions because they are uncompromising globalists. They’re completely aligned with global finance capital, as opposed to domestic capital, and therefore will try to crush domestic capital if it threatens their mission of maximum globalization. For them, the stakes in this battle are existential. The problem now faced by these globalists, and by their millennial lackeys, is that imperialism’s own evils have created an obstacle towards restoring the Obama wing’s dominance.
The Democratic Party no longer has enough of a base to win in the way that it used to. The Gaza genocide has destroyed its present and future support among all Americans with a conscience, and it could therefore only regain power by subverting the constitution. If the circumstances were to prove favorable enough, no doubt Gavin Newsom would carry out a coup on behalf of the globalist camp, where the Democrats fully get rid of the first and second amendments. The maneuver by this camp where they’ve selectively released the Epstein files—and thereby hurt Trump’s circle while not endangering the actual capitalist order—is an attempt to get the globalists in place for such a takeover.
Whether these tactics succeed in changing the balance of power remains to be seen. But what the Millennial Reich has already succeeded at is desensitizing and diverting the American people. These are the effects that the Epstein revelations have had; the leaks were designed to serve as a psyop, where the masses get exposed to horrors that further normalize ruling-class crimes. It’s all part of the effort to stop the working class from becoming organized, and gaining political agency that imperils the duopoly.
For the millions whose lives are under threat from imperialism’s aggressions, the outcome of America’s inter-capitalist rivalry doesn’t matter. They’re already experiencing the “worst case scenario,” because the Trump White House is bombing them right now as part of a genocidal plan that was always bipartisan. The part of this power struggle that truly matters is the one being played by the workers. If the workers can take advantage of the conflicts within the U.S. ruling class, and overthrow their banking dictatorship, the entire world will be freed from the menace that this dictatorship poses. What the working-class movement gains out of studying this clash between the capitalist dictators, and exposing the schemes of the different actors within this conflict, is a clear sense of how to fight for our class in this next phase.
In this stage of American capitalist collapse, both wings of capital have decided to let the country continue being hollowed out, and to abandon the youngest generations. The Trump wing represents the most reactionary elements within the boomer generation, which disregard Gen Z due to being simply out-of-touch. The globalist wing represents the reactionary millennials, who have a different mindset; for these millennials, the desire to scapegoat Gen Z and inflict mass-scale imperial violence comes from a paranoid insecurity. The woke imperial architects, who were behind AOC’s calls to crush “authoritarianism,” see how unstable capital has become. They see how imperialism’s internal rot, and escalations in monstrosity, have created roadblocks to its success. Or rather to the measures which they believe will bring it success.
The Obama-Newsom wing views it as a deathly urgent matter to implement their color revolution plan, which they think is the genius maneuver that can solve imperialism’s growing troubles. This belief comes from ridiculous hubris, of course, but it’s what drives the messianic crusade that these technocrats are waging. The whole basis for the neocon worldview—which really just means the Trotskyist worldview—is a war against reality. When the material world fails to conform to the dictates of the Trotskyist messiah, as it always will, then the messiah must smite the disobedient at all costs. When this is the task you’ve committed to, it takes no effort to internalize the globalist mentality where only international capital matters, and one’s own nation has zero value. What is American prosperity, compared to the rewards that will come from winning the global permanent revolution?
Realistically, what the Millennial Reich Trotskyists will be able to accomplish is the further destruction of the American social order, with their methods for this being particular to the ideology and material interests they represent. The Trump wing is also destroying social relations, with its preferred method being to turn ICE into a rogue paramilitary force that instigates civil conflict. The Millennial Reich’s weapons are the ultraviolent lumpen “antifa” elements that insert themselves into protests, and sabotage popular resistance movements. This is the role the globalist wing has within left-wing politics: to cultivate a false left which has absolutely no relationship to the actual working class struggle.
Using these counter-gang proxies, the Millennial Reich will continue to set traps for our mass movements within the metropole, leading demonstrators into adventurist battles with the police that they can’t win. The task of working class organizers is to connect with both the rural white workers, who this false left despises; as well as the black, brown, and indigenous masses, who the false left claims to represent. Our liberal class enemies have created a version of “socialism” that’s aligned with their Trotskyist agenda, and this political force is dangerous. But it’s also designed to stay limited to an extremely narrow range of support, isolating itself from the popular masses. If we keep building the authentic workers movement’s presence among the neglected masses, we’ll become the third player in this conflict, the one that ends the imperial order.
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