>>Today in downtown Los Angeles, over 1 million people demonstrated in support of immigrant rights. This was the largest demonstration in the history of California. March organizers announced from the stage that the crowd was over 1 million. Univision and other Spanish-language television reported that up to 2 million people marched. The Los Angeles Times, reflecting police estimates, gave the march 500,000 - police estimates have been trying to minimize pro-immigrant rights demonstration for the last few weeks. <<< Comment Here is the face of the American Revolution. This march seems to surpass the Million Man March and is a new juncture in American history. Classical Marxists calls such movement as these racial movements, outside their concept of the proletarian revolution. Some of us have been preparing for such movements and events as long ago as 30 years ago and this is the honest to God truth. Since Mexico is a very large country with a unique revolutionary history and tradition, their immigrants have played a different role in the shaping of our political life. I have had it with what is called classical Marxism in America and the advanced countries or imperial centers. In an unprovoked aggression, the US took Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, half of Mexico's national territory, although the most imperialist of the bourgeois ideologues claim that Mexican troops crossed the Rio Grande and attacked a unit of American soldiers, when everyone familiar with events knows that Polk ordered troops into Mexico when she refused American offers to purchase her territory. The date was January 13, 1846. On May 13, 1846 Congress declared war on Mexico. Without this territory the US of yesteryear would be facing Europe and inevitably have come under its control. Further the mechanic of Southern slavery demanded land acquisition and soil rotation as the basis of human labor intense slave agriculture. At the peace treaty a defeated Mexico accepted the US promise to maintain open borders forever. That's right . . . open borders forever. The first great test of the open border doctrine came with the Civil War in the United States. When Lincoln spoke of the "last best hope for mankind" he was referring to the fact that political reaction was sweeping and had conquered Europe. The ruling classes of virtually all of these countries supported the Confederacy. Protected by French arms, war material poured from Europe into Mexico and from there into the Confederacy in exchange for cotton. If the Mexican national army under Juarez had been defeated, it was very probable that France and probably England would have declared war on the US and invaded from Mexico. Although hard pressed, Lincoln transferred gold and arms to Juarez who finally defeated the French and along with the Federal campaign in Texas, shut off the flow of arms to the Confederacy through Mexico. Ever heard of Cinco De Mayo? That is what is being celebrated. Cinco De Mayo - the Mexican National Holiday, celebrates their victory over the French at Puebla in 1862 and should be celebrated by all Americans. Here is the political and moral grounds for open borders. Further, there are political agreements between governments and historical agreements far to often ignored and not explained to the peoples of America. This complex history is why George W. as a border state governor - Texas, can appear as less fascist than many of his Democratic sectarian opposition. Anyone that looked at some maps of the South and America between 1820 and 1860 and chart cotton production during these 40 years, will immediately understand our history. What is today Arkansas was Indian territory and what is Kansas was "unorganized territory" or Indian country. The issue becomes still more complex because Indians should never under any circumstance be required to carry passports and other such documents in their travel across the depth and breath of their historic territory. In every theater of the historical Marxist movement associated with Lenin, such issues as these are called the National Question or the National Factor except in America, where such is called racial antagonism or a race question. Well . . . we have come full circle and in fact are looking at the face of the proletarian revolution in America. The Chickens have come home to roost. When the revolutionaries in the United States call for international unity and all kinds of uniting the working class world wide, their best support would be to engage in the revolution where they are. Yet CB and his those like him hoist the flag of the imperialist bourgeoisie and call for American jobs for American workers under the guise of advocating building new plants so the laid off workers can have jobs. In the real world only the Mexican workers - nationals and national minority, can politically and physically connect the mass of Anglo American workers with the on going Central and South American revolution. Los Angels is not a Mexican or Chicano Movement as such, but how the revolutionary process is unfolding in America in real time. The historical junctures were Los Angels 1992 and before that Watts (Los Angeles) 1965 and the classical Marxists and ideological communist movement is incapable of understanding these events because they become no more than ideological chauvinists hiding behind the ideology of the industrial proletariat: meaning the most economically secure white workers. "Whose hands are on the basic means of production," "Concentrated in industry" and "the poverty stricken workers have to many social problems." Beneath this much talked about industrial proletariat - as it decays in front of our eyes, is the real proletarian masses who refuse to be ignored. Damn right . . . . Mr. Lawyer, the poverty stricken workers have social problems . . . like where the next meal comes from and how can I sell my labor power. Its not like these poverty stricken workers have more drug problems for instance than working America. Social problems means economic problems to me. I understand what they probably me to you with your white middle class vision of proletarian revolution. What an Uncle Tom Marxist. No power on earth can break the centuries connections between the Mexican workers on both sides of our borders. At any rate the Mexican workers, in their relentless pursuit of work have transformed Americas political landscape for all time. There is no blueprint for our path forward but there are lessons buried in our history.
Melvin P. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
