Obamamania. Unspoken, but within the celebrations dubbed Obamamania, was the sense that the defeat of McCain and Bush was necessary to the preservation of the country. It was more than a partisan celebration. It was a patriotic referendum. If John McCain had been elected a signal would have been sent supporting the worse features of white superiority as a body politic within classes in America and internationally. McCain/Palin was an endorsing of capitalism on horseback. The boys with the noosing were on the loose and people were properly scared to death. There are very real differences between Republicans and Democrats related to each electoral base within the population. Ask the majority of American women who support abortion rights, or any number of a hundred questions. The Republican Party remains the "party of rich old white men" and that is what a vast section of our working class calls it. The sectarian battles and running wars between Democratic and Republican are real fights. Whether we like it or not these fights set the agenda and tone of national dialogue. If the truth be told John McCain did not frighten me at all. Sarah Palin was frightening with her apparent ignorance and playing to the worse features of our history. Thus, the apparent patriotic zeal and love the working class displayed for "the Obama Victory," - the patriotic zeal, exists in direct opposition and antagonism with the patriotic zeal of McCain/Palin cry of "Country First." It time for communists to saddle up. Get Hot. To the ready line. Some communist write the literature; some moderate the lists, other do the administrative thing and some write and pass out the literature. There is a group of communist that do the street agitation and propaganda. Get Hot. To the ready line. The political experts were quick to appear on television in an effort to belittle what was historic and state that the economy defeated McCain, and it did to a degree. Value is reaching the zero equation. Politics is the faithful handmaiden of economics and no political change is possible without changes in the economy. However it is impermissible for revolutionaries to disregard the subjective factors (that is the ethical and cultural changes) that have taken place in the county and that were expressed in the election. Among these is the declining significance of color, especially amongst the younger generation. Another is the revolutionary potential of the Internet. As in any process of social change, morality (what is right and wrong) becomes decisive. For example, the Civil War could not be won until the majority of the people of the North became convinced that slavery was wrong. The election cracks open the door to show that homelessness, exploitation and oppression are wrong and must be done away with. This is what revolution is all about. We scream about the importance of the subjective factor and then disregard its actual life process. The working class is not going to become Marxist. We want to win them to the cause of economic communism. II Obama does not hail from the African American elite. Nor are Obama’s roots in the black bourgeoisie, the old Civil Rights organizations or the military as is the case with say a Colin Powell. Obama is not like Condoleezza Rice whose rise in government was at the behest of Bush W. Obama’s path to power defies traditional American politics. His election was not a paternalistic display of affection towards a black or black people. Nor was Obama election the result of blacks voting for him. Obama is a breach in in the political fabric or rather came through the same breach we are going to go through in a push to win the workers to economic communism on the basis of their own experience. Obama completes a quantitative juncture of American history and is simultaneously the new quality or rather crystallizes the new quality in American politics. That is what has changed for communist organizers and agitators. One can actually talk about class today and get a hearing from virtually everyone in the working class. I swear to comrades, I directly talked about communism and a new vision of America. Obama altered the dialogue unlike any President I know of. Obama placed the issue of the color factor on the national table in America and a nationwide discussion took place unlike anytime since Lincoln. That is what changed. The Obama campaign modified and pioneered new ways of organizing people, effectively using the internet. That is what changed. Obama has put the so-called "black leader" as a historical category out of a job. That is what changed. What is Jesse Jackson Sr. and Al Shaprton jobs today? What issues can they raise that are not that of the proletariat? Man I got hot in the election. What I said was that, "I liked Obama because Bush W. and Cheney were destroying the country spooning feeding the damn capitalists. We need revolution in America. A third revolution. The only way you can provide people the necessities of life who have little or no money is to give them the necessities of life. I know that sounds like economic communism, and it is but that is where we are at. When I grew up hungry people got food from the government or food stamps and housings subsidies. Kids got paper and pencils in school. We had music classes and a bottle of milk at lunch. Our kids today can’t get a number two pencil or sheet of paper. This is criminal and someone needs to be put in jail for this." Everyone in the grocery store line nodded their heads in agreement. One guy says, "who gonna pay for all this." I said, "its paid for all ready, the banks got the money. You ain’t been watching television man?" Folks started laughing in agreement. This new quality, brought to the fore on the basis of this election cycle, is as history altering as the overthrow of Jim Crow and makes possible - expresses, something that can be done today, impossible to do yesterday. Two things in our history have blocked the unity of the working class in the political arena; the color factor and the regional differences understood as the North/South divide, or the historically unorganized reactionary South and the more liberal organized North. Something profound has changed in America in the last decade, and specifically during the eight years of the Bush W. administration. Obama changes the game. Not because he is the savior. Obama saw and widened the breach on the basis of appealing to the finest instinct of our working class. This crisis of capital finds the imperialist in need of policy shift. They are trying to do the impossible; leap to another political basis. Leap for me means transition rather than like jumping rope. Transition or flux means now is our time. Time to saddle up comrades. To the ready line. Get Hot. Note: for the FROP comrades, the value content of a mass of commodities is close to reaching zero and in areas of earth it is zero. Zero does not mean "nothing." The zero value equation means the wages paid to the world working class has dipped below the cost of reproduction of the workers. Zero. Just some thoughts. WL This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from _http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm_ (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) **************From Wall Street to Main Street and everywhere in between, stay up-to-date with the latest news. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000023) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
