Confronting Capitalism: Who Benefits From Trump’s Tariffs?
How workers are not likely to gain from Trump’s trade policy.
February 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025
Confronting Capitalism: Who Benefits From Trump’s Tariffs?
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<p>Within weeks of assuming the presidency, Donald Trump has instituted tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Trump has touted protectionism as a way of supporting American workers.</p>
<p>In this episode of <em>Confronting Capitalism</em>, <em>Catalyst</em> editor Vivek Chibber and <em>Jacobin</em> contributor Melissa Naschek discuss how nineteenth and twentieth-century protectionist trade policies helped build domestic manufacturing bases around the world, but why Trump's twenty-first century tariffs are very different. While decades of global free trade have contributed to deindustrialization, workers are not likely to benefit from Trump’s tariffs.</p>
<p><em>Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber</em> is produced by <em>Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy</em>, and published by <em>Jacobin</em>. Music by Zonkey.</p>
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