The Class Struggle is Expanding

The recent conflagration in Los Angeles, which has spread throughout the country, has again raised the question of rebellion and revolution in the imperial core.  Will the current state of affairs lead to something greater? Is the US population capable of, or willing to, defeat capitalism? In the past, certain nihilistic Marxists have pointed to brief rebellions and their subsequent defeats as evidence of the hopelessness of our circumstances. These individuals completely fail to understand historical and dialectical materialism.