(http://www.npr.org/2011/01/26/133224933/transcript-obamas-state-of-union-ad dress?ps=cprs)
Transcript: Obama's State Of The Union Address text size A A A January 25, 2011 The text of President Obama's State of the Union address, as released by the White House: Comment What Obama actually said struck me as significant compared to his last “State of the Union Address,” and Bush W. last four addresses. (available on line). Two things stood out: a). His specific politics of bipartisanship rather than demands for bipartisanship in the old period and b). How he describes the impact of the technology revolution, its social consequences and “the line of march” his administration is charting for a form of finance capital increasing divorced from social production – the economy, or operating as a notional value. Obama’s politics of bipartisanship are of vital importance to those communists involved in electoral work and examining the prospect for a broad party of the class (not a Leninist Party). This work involves charting and tracking the splitting and growing ruptures within Democratic and Republican Party, its impact on local electoral work and the prospect of breaking the historic reliance of trade unions upon primarily the Democrats. The impulse for a Third Party and a broad Workers Party are the same but a Third Party is not necessarily a Workers Party. Calling for the formation of a broad class party detached from actual motion within society and the voting section of the working class is like the sectarian calling for the dictatorship of the proletariat in a union meeting discussing health care. Charting this motion in real time is difficult and requires a general staff or general staffs. For those involved in this work “Third Party: Indispensable Step For Our Class,” December 2010, Rally Comrades is useful. Also, “Bipartisanship: Democracy Debased, Corporations Enthroned,” September 2010 and “The Politics of Bipartisanship: Clearing the Way for the New Economy," March 2010 explains why the splitting and impulse today is different from in the past. II. Obama “State of the Union” presentation on the new economy, where in he describes how factories once employing 1000 workers now need only 100, and the undeniable impact of revolution in the means of production, outlines the policy of the bourgeoisie towards the new class of destitute proletarians. This new class, arising in correspondence to and expressing revolution in the means of production and a qualitative reconfiguration of the old industrial division of labor, brings our society to antagonism. The contradiction of bourgeois production is being slowing but inexorably superseded by antagonism, or the expression and appearance of a new class of destitute proletarians, existing outside the system – economy. We have entered an era of class struggle meaning the external collision of classes without a connecting tissue or bond in production. This class evolving outside the system and in external collision with bourgeois property is going to grow. Where the liberal left speak of unemployment, Obama’s presentation marks the opening of accelerated attack against the destitute proletariat and the opening gun in a national policy of aligning society against this new class of proletarians. The President calls for national unity and faith in the free market economy, means we are in a period of ideologically attack against the so-called idlers or refuge of bourgeois society. “New Epoch Makes New World Possible,” July 2010 Rally Comrades, outline the path of the revolution in the means of production and the new social consequences to society. WL. _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
