The characterization of Obama is not very informative. Yes, this is a crossroads . . . a conjuncture of the election of the first black president and a major crisis of capitalism. Those two facts are interdependent, interrelated, and quite important, but I've yet to see an insightful elucidation of the nature of that importance. Decisive in this is not the election of a black president, but the fact that Cracker America, almost half of the white electorate, voted for McCain and is out for Obama's blood. I saw a documentary last night on HBO: "Right America: Feeling Wronged": a survey of white Americans who hate Obama. These aren't just white people, these are the whitest people you ever saw, the redneck kind that make your blood run cold. The kind not shy about telling you what they think about niggers. Granted, they are dinosaurs, and hopefully they will die out soon, but not soon enough. Now the question is: how will Cracker America react to 'socialist' Obama's handling of the economic crisis?
-----Original Message----- >From: waistli...@aol.com >Sent: Feb 26, 2009 8:13 AM >To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu >Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] Black History Month 2009 Change and continuity: >The election of Barack Obama 1 > >Black History Month 2009 Change and continuity: The election of Barack Obama >By Waistline2 > >Obama: Change or continuity? (Part III) By Elíades Acosta Matos raises a >question whose answer is "both!" >.................. The key to understanding Obama the person and his administration resides in American history itself and this moment of capitalist crisis. Barack Obama is most certainly the chief executive officer of imperial capital but that does not tell anyone very much. Dialectic of Revolution as history. Obama the person is the promise made flesh of our Second Revolutionary War - the Civil War. Written on the banner of our Second Revolutionary War is the p romise, "toward a more perfect union," and then the idea of a nation - not Union, conceived in liberty and justice. The living Obama as symbol, manifest this promise, and is the crossing of the color line in American history. Without understanding this tiny promise, and the crossing of the color line, the behavior of the American peoples and the class intersection that made his election possible makes no(n)-sense. The complexity as the moment, resides in the need for bourgeoisie and revolutionary alike, compelled by the logic of history, to appropriate the same history for diametrically opposed - antagonistic, purposes. _______________________________________________ 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
