Saturday, March 20, 2021

Biden and the Left

Make no mistake about it, we have a hawk in the White House. "After seeing Mr. Biden deliver a transformational $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, progressives are asking why his foreign policy feels so conventional. They worry that Mr. Biden and his largely centrist team of national security officials will disappoint the liberal wing’s desires for a new American foreign policy that relies far less on military power, de-escalates tensions with rivals like Iran and China, and places greater pressure — under threat of cooler relations — on allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel." As the NYT points out US imperialism is conducted by centrists and, of course the right. The center is in fact the main force supporting monopoly capitalist exploitation of the working class and Biden's "transformational" stimulus bill is designed to stimulate the capitalist economy in order to secure the homefront so that the imperialist foreign policy will be firmly anchored in the economy along with the overstuffed military budget. I find it hard to understand how Marxists can think it is possible to work with, let alone have unity with, the center. Liberals are not progressives and they have been in the past vociferous enemies of socialism and especially of the communist movement -- they still are as both Warren and Pelosi have publically supported the "capitalism forever" mantra of both the centrist liberals and conservatives. We need to build a united front of all truly left progressive forces both to push Biden to the left and to roll back the forces of fascism that have captured the Republican Party. If some centrists want to come over to us, fine, but reaching out to them is a waste of time better spent in organizing workers and all the exploited who have delusions about what bourgeois democracy can do for them.

































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