>Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 04:02:50 +0200 (EET) > >Subject: Austria: Haider and the politically correct totalitarism > >>From: "ilc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Social Democracy is no Less Dangerous than Haider=92s Rightist Populism >> >>Via =93anti-fascist=94 follies to =93politically correct=94 totalitarianism= > facing >>the possibility of a government with participation of the Austrian Freedom >>Party (FP=D6) >> >>Declaration of the Revolutionary Communist League (RKL) >> >>Not only in Austria, but all over Europe, an =93anti-fascist=94 cry of >>leftist-liberals against Haiderism can be heard, even in >>Christian-conservative circles. Even Hillary Clinton felt bound to speak ou= >t >>against Haider. Those =93humanist=94 crocodile tears of the ruling imperial= >ist >>bourgeoisie are dutifully reproduced by the left. Now the EU commission >>crowned the whole story, announcing officially to isolate Austria in case o= >f >>FP=D6 government participation. >> >>It is a terrible mistake not to know the main enemy >> >>1 >>From an international point of view, the ruling group of the New World Orde= >r >>is left-wing liberalism. Left-wing liberalism advances neo-liberal >>globalisation, boundless exploitation of the Third World and even the >>impoverishment of relevant parts of the population in the West, they advanc= >e >>=93humanitarian interventionism=94 =97 i. e. global imperialist aggression = >under >>the guise of human rights. If an analogy with fascism can be seen today, >>then it is rather the political current expressed in its most clear form by >>Clinton and Blair. Tell us, what is the difference between the alleged >>attack of Poland against Germany, and the massacre of Racak =97 both pretex= >ts >>for aggression wars? The difference might be that the United States of >>America in their fantasy of omnipotence gave such a poor fabrication that >>the truth was found out even before their final defeat. Are the genocide >>programmes of the USA launched against Vietnam, Kurdistan, Palestine, Iraq >>and Yugoslavia less bad than the Nazi schemes called Lebensraum East, just >>because they have been committing them under the label of human rights? >>Genocide has a constant factor of imperialist capitalism for more than a >>hundred years! The main difference between modern =93human rights=94 imperi= >alism >>and fascism is the internal r=E9gime, the political structure in the >>imperialist centres, which is not based on violent oppression of the >>antagonist working classes by means of civil war, but it is based on social= >, >>political and cultural integration of these working classes as junior >>partners of imperialist aggression. This makes modern imperialism even more >>dangerous, because it is more impenetrable. It is thus small wonder that th= >e >>ideological plaster of neo-liberal globalisation has =93leftist=94 origins.= > As >>there is a lack of an antagonist working-class movement, the conception of >>=93civil society=94 is transforming set pieces of comprehensive human >>emancipation into a system that is not just compatible with capitalism but >>even stabilising capitalism. The end of history is proclaimed, and any >>collective social action is said to be not just meaningless, but even >>anti-democratic and totalitarian. Only the individual counts, organising it= >s >>immediate environment, e. g. by participating in NGOs. Freedom and >>emancipation are said to be only attainable by individual and isolated >>personal initiative. Individuals communicate only in the sphere of the >>market which creates ostensibly objective, inherent necessities (Sachzw=E4n= >ge) >>that are beyond the influence of the people, and ostensibly equal democracy= >. >>The authoritarian state that found its most extreme form in fascism, must b= >e >>restrained, but: The capitalist state as such is left untouched. >>Communitarianism, =93civilian=94 neo-liberalism =97 a late decay product of= > the >>failure and integration of the 1968 movements =97 renders new stability (at >>least temporarily) to crisis-ridden capitalism by oppressing any collective >>resistance. >> >>2 >>To call Haider a fascist is a clear expression of ignorance of the historic >>phenomenon of fascism as a r=E9gime of (preventive) civil war against a soc= >ial >>revolution. Haider does actually have roots in that tradition, but his rise >>is owed to his breaking with this tradition. Rightist populism has no party >>apparatus to speak of (in stark contrast to fascism): Right until today >>their party =97 or rather public relations factory =97 has difficulties to = >find >>cadres to fill the abundant political functions, especially on the lower >>levels of representation, and their party is not based on mass activism at >>all. The ascend of J=F6rg Haider is due to the virtuous American-style medi= >a >>staging. His populism has neither a unified political programme nor a firm >>social basis. All those econimistic analyses of the FP=D6 as an expression = >of >>those who lost in the modernisation process are rather superficial. >>Haiderism rather is an eclectic movement of protest not only against the >>social but also against the political and cultural decay caused by >>neo-liberalism. Due to the parasitism of the middle classes in the West >>(including the working-class aristocracy) who defend with teeth and claws >>their privileges against the horrifying misery of the Third World and also >>against new poverty in the West, against masses of billions; and also due t= >o >>the collapse of communism as an international liberation movement: The >>protest is channelled only to the right. The protest against neo-liberalism >>thus actually serves its acceleration and consolidation. Actually, >>historically speaking, Haiderism is an essence, a decay product of social >>democracy, such as Blairism. Haider and Blair form antonyms, they are >>dissimilar twins of the same parents. Rightist populism and leftist >>liberalism are two poles of alternation of the new neo-liberal r=E9gime >>according to the American model. The current process to shape a new >>government is actually a r=E9gime change. But this transition from the Seco= >nd >>Republic (founded after World War II) to the Third Republic does not only >>mean the diminishing of Sozialpartnerschaft (institutionalised collective >>bargaining and cross-class collaberation) and the integration of the FP=D6, >>but also a further erosion of representative democracy and the installation >>of an American-style democracy spectacle of alternating parties, in which >>the SP=D6 (Social-Democratic Party) as well as the FP=D6 have fixed engagem= >ents; >>only the =D6VP (conservative People=92s Party) =97 now paving the way to= > such a >>r=E9gime =97 might be left out. >> >>3 >>Haider is a greater danger for us when he is in the opposition as when he >>joins the government, because in the latter case the contradictions of his >>anti-neo-liberal neo-liberalism will be exposed sooner or later. (This is >>why Haider himself won=92t yet join the government, but puts forword puppet= >s >>he can get rid of any time.) To overcome Haider, it seems that the masses >>have to experience his rule. There seems to be no shortcut. If it is true >>that class struggle is the motor of history =97 and we still think so =97, = >then >>the potential conflict, the idea of instability a rightist coalition could >>create, is the lesser evil compared to the stifling social peace, the >>deathly silence of any coalition that includes the SP=D6. In this sense a >>rightist government is an easier opponent than a leftist one. It might help >>us to what Austria needs most urgently: social conflict. Anyway there is >>hope that Sch=FCssel (the =D6VP chancellor candidate) might commit the same >>mistakes as Berlusconi or Jupp=E9, misled by his ravings for power or >>incapable Haider-underlings. >> >>The main enemy still is =93democratic=94 totalitarianism >> >>Anybody who accuses us of appeasement, because we don=92t have =93anti-fasc= >ist=94 >>struggle as the first item on our list right now, is guilty of appeasement >>with =93humanitarian=94 imperialism, that wages =93anti-fascist=94 and >> =93humanitarian=94 wars all over the world to defend its dominion, silenci= >ng >>the opposition by means of =93politically correct=94 unified thought. There= > can >>be no doubt that the struggle against a neo-liberal government including th= >e >>FP=D6 has to be as vigorous as the struggle against the neo-liberal SP=D6= >=96=D6VP >>government. (Actually there is hardly any difference between the =D6VP=96FP= >=D6 >>programme and the SP=D6=96=D6VP that did not come off =97 even concerning >>immigration!) But those who call Haider a fascist, who see him as the main >>enemy, who thus exculpate leftist liberalism (and its EU-commission >>dictate), who actually suggest leftist liberalism as an alternative =97 tho= >se >>objectively become running dogs of imperialism, the system that created the >>Haider phenomenon. >> >>Vienna, January 31st, 2000 >> >>************************************** >>International Leninist Current (ILC) >>Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI) >>PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria >>Tel & Fax +43 1 504 00 10 >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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