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.
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
“Did not explain” how they concluded that they had “high confidence “ of Putin’s involvement!” I believe in a court of law that would be: “Case dismissed.” This is the usual CIA et al setting up the American people to accept US imperialism’s continuing attempts to justify outrageous military budgets to finance attempts to enforce American economic and political domination overseas as well as to justify the electoral status quo at home — no radical reforms needed. Putin the D…
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Thursday, March 04, 2021
Trump and the Coming of Fascism
"Because of Germany’s Nazi history and the fact that Hitler rose by democratic means before swiftly moving to abolish democracy, the country designed its postwar political structures with built-in safeguards to protect against the rise of political forces — primarily another Nazi party — that could once again usurp the democracy from the inside. “Trump is fighting the same political fight — you have to call it a culture war — as we in the Alternative for Germany are in Germany in opposition,” Martin Renner, an AfD lawmaker, wrote on Facebook."--NYT
There is no doubt that Trump represents in the USA what these neo-Nazis do in Germany and that they have taken over the Republican Party. The Congress should demand that the Republican Party be likewise put under surveillance as a threat to democracy (to civil rights, voting rights, and the rights of immigrants,LGBT rights and workers rights, etc.). The FBI and regular law enforcement agencies cannot be trusted so Congress must create a special ad hoc agency to carry out his investigation and make timely reports to the American people. Don't be fooled into thinking that the Biden/Harris election has lessened the danger of fascism in America -- it has increased it. Trump got into power following the pseudo-progressive Obama, as Bush did after the pseudo-liberal Clinton because the system allows for power to be transferred to those who actually lose popular elections. Trump is the tip of the iceberg of the fascist power being held in abeyance behind the scenes by the ruling class. We must act now and demand that the fascist elements taking over the Republican Party be investigated and purged. We can't wait for the midterms. We must try and mobilize all progressive organizations and unions to make these demands before we all wake up in a very dark place before we know it. The threat to our democracy isn't coming from Russia or China but from within and the sooner we realize it the better -- our backs are far from being covered.
Sunday, February 21, 2021
We Need a Progressive Attorney General
"Mr. Obama nominated Judge Garland to the Supreme Court in March 2016, praising him as a moderate and nonpolitical judge. The choice was partly a calculus to appeal to Republicans, since Judge Garland had a record of often siding with law enforcement in his criminal rulings. He had only tepid support from the liberal wing of his party, particularly Senator Bernie Sanders, who said in his primary campaign for president that year that if he won the White House, he would ask Mr. Obama to withdraw the nomination." I'm sure Mr. Garland is a fine gentleman but at this time we don't need a "Centrist" as attorney general. The forces of fascism are gearing up under the false flag of American "patriotism," the Republican Party itself is taking the fascist road and millions of Americans are set to follow the Pied Piper of racist extremism Donald Trump as leader of that party. It is the nature of centrists to look for ways to compromise and make deals that both sides can live with but the progressive movement cannot compromise with racism and fascism. Lenin said it was infantile not to make compromises in the face of realpolitik but those compromises could not be unprincipled concessions to an implacable foe but were compromises that allowed us to work with other working class progressives who did support our views but would work with us against a common enemy. He did not think we should work with elements of the ruling class itself whose differing factions would unite against us the minute any real threat to the dominance of the capitalist system arose. The history of centrism is, that when push comes to shove, it sides with the fascists only tempering down the most extreme elements so as not to arouse opposition to its betrayals. Of course, Biden/Harris and company are centrists themselves, so we can't expect a really progressive AG to be appointed (even Bernie distrusted Garland when the centrist Obama nominated him for the Supreme Court) but we can refrain from fooling ourselves and rhapsodizing over this appointment, we can leave that to the centrist New York Times.
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