Poor Trump

Is Trump poor? Let's see! Could his crazy antics and recent banditry be the reason why Trump is seen as a barbarian? Today, I would like to briefly discuss this topic with you, my valued readers. However, while engaging in this discussion, I ask that we do not get caught up in the rapidly spreading news and general judgments, such as the common assumption that Trump kidnapped the leader of another country by raiding his bedroom.

My dear readers, of course, I do not wish to condone the banditry committed by Trump with this title. But I want to analyze this barbarism not by focusing on Trump himself, but by taking refuge in Rosa Luxemburg's famous expression, "Socialism or barbarism!" In short, while analyzing the subjective situation rising on the Marxist objective foundation in this analysis, I want to give priority to objective conditions. You may not agree with this; however, please let us listen to each other first and see what kind of conclusion we will reach!

Yes, socialism or barbarism! Unfortunately, these are the paths ahead in the historical process that humanity is witnessing. In the context of this narrative, Trump, true to his behavior, has exhibited the latest example of barbarism in the history we are living through. So, why did Trump take on this role instead of any other head of state? Is this an example of self-sacrifice? No, this behavior is neither an example of self-sacrifice nor of magnanimity. The clear picture of the event is this: Trump, as the leader of a state at the most advanced stage of capitalism, simply implemented the command of capitalism with his own style. That is all there is to it; therefore, Trump is not the primary culprit in this incident, but merely an apparatus.

If this is the case, let us elaborate on the event a little more. The golden rule of capitalism is this: capital is embodied in the character and behavior of its owner. Such a schizoid dual personality structure, realized through alienation, forces the individual into different behavioral patterns in private settings versus professional ones. While capital moves with a tendency for continuous growth, like a malignant tumor, ceaselessly commodifying and destroying the entire environment, the subjectivized form of objectivity also drifts into similar behaviors. This textural behavioral pattern also becomes dominant in the behavioral patterns of states under different conditions. Although not as developed as today, in the past, empires and/or states also grew incessantly, expanding their areas and borders. This necessity was not only an inevitable result of population growth but was also carried out through various methods such as plunder, looting, and seizing the assets of neighboring countries. The situation has expanded to such dire areas that, let alone capitalist or modern state structures, even in the tribal structures of the past, almost no tribe could sit still without attacking a rival tribe or taking people or land from them. The reflections of today's spirit can also be seen in the research conducted by social anthropologists, including the famous anthropologist Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands. So much so that a tribal chief had to kidnap the most prized concubine of a neighboring tribal chief to assert his power and dominance over surrounding tribes. In another example, for a young person of marriageable age to be deemed eligible for marriage, they had to kill a youth of their own age in a neighboring tribe. Of course, these examples are not related to the behavioral patterns of capitalism, but we cannot ignore that the most dominant behavioral pattern of capitalism is power, struggle, and the destruction of the opponent. What could bourgeois politeness be a reflection of, or a masking polish for! Such behavioral patterns have now risen from individual behavior to the level of state behavior.

Let us not go too far. Once, while I was in Vienna, my greatest prayer was that no one would realize I was a Turk. Please, let this issue not immediately stir up the chauvinists. The point is this: what were the Ottomans doing at the gates of Vienna! When we do it, it is heroism, but why is it banditry when a country we are annoyed with today does something similar? Sir, we were supposedly tasked with bringing Islamic morality and cleanliness to those places! Who gave us this task, or did we perhaps invent an excuse to expand and seize certain assets? I do not know! All I know is that, while it is debatable how much it falls under the definition of colonialism, our ancestors did not sit very quietly either; so much so that for a long time, the slogan "The Turks are coming!" was fashionable in Europe to scare children into sleeping. I wish we had somehow been the owners of the slogan "The specter of Marx is haunting the skies of Europe" instead!

In short. As long as power and capitalism are in play with their most primitive forms and behavioral codes, people are forced to act like capital to make breakthroughs, and states are forced to act like capital to expand and invade the environment. I wish this necessity did not exist, and that everyone could sit in peace and quiet in their own world, free from any fear of attack! A nice wish, but in capitalism, this is not very possible, or rather, capital does not really allow it. Because someone riding a bicycle falls when they stop. When firms stabilize their growth, they are destroyed by their opponents. States must also grow. Capitalism is a system; its momentary state should not obscure its historicity.

The situation in the face of historical and social conditions is that states grow extensively when possible, and intensively when not. In extensive growth, efforts are made to expand borders by gaining land, while in intensive growth, due to the lack of opportunity to gain land, the goal is to gain resistance and intimidate potential enemies (!) by making breakthroughs in the fields of economy and technology, which we can also call internal growth.

So, my dear readers, I am inclined to read this banditry not through Trump, but through the logic of the state, which has taken on the behavioral patterns of capitalism and capital. I don't know, what do you think, what would you say! I wish I had the opportunity to reach your beautiful points that could open up my idea!