As workers trim their grocery lists and avoid driving to save money, corporate profits reached almost 16% of GDP—a historic high.

To the class enemy, global chaos means big profits. World capitalism’s biggest players are crediting “market volatility” for recent windfalls.

BP and Shell proudly called their most recent quarterly profits “exceptional”—the best in two years. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs have reported record-breaking first quarter earnings of $16.5 billion, $5.8 billion, and $5.6 billion respectively.

For workers, life is hard and getting harder.

Not so for the ruling class! While eight in ten Americans say they are financially strained by higher gas prices, a handful of vultures have placed at least $7 billion of “suspiciously timed” market bets. A few “lucky” traders sold oil futures just moments before false Truth Social statements from Trump caused prices to drop.

It’s clearer than ever that workers and capitalists have diametrically opposed interests. What is catastrophic for us translates into record-breaking profits for them.

As Lenin wrote in 1915, “War is a ‘terrible’ thing? Yes. But it is a terribly profitable thing.”