I watched and recorded Obama speech last night focusing on three aspects of the economy, "health care, energy and education." I asked the question "what is Obama going to reform," in the system and apparently here is the answer. These three issues contain a deep and complex intersection of class interest for all of American society. Reforming health care, depending on how it is carried out, has the potential to change the living relations between and within classes in America, without changing the property relations, by altering all classes living relations and links to government.
Also of interest was Obama stating the military budget will now appear as a regular "line item" on the national budget. Generally speaking, only Senator John McCain has over the past decades been able to attack military spending and survive politically. Still not sure about Obama's meaning about reforming Medicare and no mention of Medicaid. The "aid" in Medicaid means aid to dependent children and welfare recipients and the "care" generally deals with retired workers and the disabled. Obama projected an "up until now" not seen firmness and militancy in his rhetoric. His peculiar "cool" is bound up with the immigrant experience, and not simply "cool" as expressed by the blacks. However that are rules that govern politics and simply being against the bourgeois power because they are bourgeois, is fine, but fails to educate anyone in the "art of the possible." "The possible" is the recognition of where the greatest intersection of class interest runs through all the various classes and class sectors attacking the system from different sides of the social equation. Further, economic crisis cannot be fought out in the economy, only the political superstructure as the colliding and collusion of underlying spontaneous class striving. In my opinion, the weakness of a sector of the communist/Marxist pole, that for very different reasons and considerations as a pole, voted for Obama, with some actively campaigning for him, was a weakness in understanding and articulating an outline of intersecting class interest, making Obama's election possible. The President - any President and any real leader in any organization (from trade union to the local bingo club), inherits certain things: in the case of President a military and administrative bureaucracy, which, is fundamental to and indispensable to governing; and this administrative bureaucracy may not agree with him and dangerously hinder his capability. Most importantly, no one can govern a people who disagree with them. Here is the political context Obama is being tracked within. Obama's Presidency "teeters" on winning a section of the voting workers that have generally and historically voted Republican. Here is why the running stats on what sections of the population ARE NOT hostile to the Obama administration is important as a gage in the art of the possible. It is not falling under the spell of bourgeois politics to track real events with a generalized political equation that keeps ones political pole on track and riveted to the science of society. Last point: Michelle Obama is the point man - no quotes, in the politics of wining the government administrative bureaucracy to the Obama administration and policy change domestically. Her importance and political capacity should not be under estimated. Roughly 10 days ago she gave an impressive speech realigning government policy with respects to the various Indian nations, speaking of developing infrastructure projects like schools and water works. Barack Obama story is that of the immigrant, and his has inspired a huge section of America that contains and embody such history. Michelle historically specific history is that of the Negro in its purity. Surely, no one can mistake the meaning of the word Negro in this context. Such an alignment as the "top" of American government has never occurred in American history. Mr. Cool + Michelle = . . ............."something!!," . . . as a specific method of rule that has not yet come of fruition. Things get interesting. Unite or Perish. WL. >>So a sizable majority wants Obama to pursue his policies with our without Republican support. Meanwhile, a huge majority says that Republicans should emphasize working with Obama in a bipartisan way over pursuing their policy ideas: Which do you think should be a higher priority for Republicans in Congress right now — working in a bipartisan way with Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress or sticking to Republican policies? << ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Get a jump start on your taxes. Find a tax professional in your neighborhood today. **************Get a jump start on your taxes. Find a tax professional in your neighborhood today. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=Tax+Return+Preparation+%26+Filing&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000004) _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
