Re: [Marxism] End of short unhappy life of engagement with Iran Re: Fred Feldman
Gary MacLennan (gary.maclenn...@gmail.com) wrote on 2009-08-03 at 09:31:04 in about Re: [Marxism] End of short unhappy life of engagement with Iran Re: Fred Feldman: in response to my short quip: One can't really separate one from the other. he responded: Of course we can moreover we have to. The world is still in love with the Man from yes we can. True at home in the U.S of A, according to the polls, the glister is appearing to be wearing thin and that is a sign of real hope. there is also an urgent need to attack the illusions in Obama. He and the Democratic Party are the enemy. Just because there also exists a bunch of troglodytes slavering around the place does not mean that we should ever lose sight of what Obama as a bourgeois politician is and what bourgeois politics is all about - maintaining the rule of the bourgeoisie. That is simple but it is not simplistic at all at all. Simplistic is to proclaim that it is one or the other. In reality it is contradictory. Splitting up the unity and recognition of its contradictory parts is the essence of dialectics [my translation from German] is how Lenin begins a short article On the question of dialectics he wrote in 1915, while he was preparing taking power in the October Revolution by studying Hegel. Obama is not a homogeneous object, he is full of contradictions. Our task, that of proletarian revolutionists, is to recognize those contradictions and act on them. It is necessary to defend Obama's initial remarks about that Gate incident against the racist, white-supremacist campaign he was confronted with afterwards. It is necessary to criticise him for receding in front of those attacks. And it is possible without falling in the trap of proclaiming Obama all bad or all good. Frederick Engels spoke of the unity of identity and difference. Cheers, Lüko Willms Frankfurt, Germany visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in German YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] End of short unhappy life of engagement with Iran Re: Fred Feldman
from Fred : More and more I suspect that the successful coup of sorts is taking place not in Honduras (where the putschists are embattled) but in Washington (where it is meeting no visible resistance, including from one of its central targets, the current President. The gruesome truth, Fred. Meanwhile, the coup which is taking place in Washington( where every coup is usually taking place ) is spread on the grandiose scale into the rest of the world. And we, here in the US, have a burning hope for some resistance (to any coup, in any part of the world!) would grow strong enough to help our slumber in our democracy to be interrupted. Somehow.Maybe. Meanwhile, Uncle Tom, the Uncle Sam's grandson, can enjoy the beers in the White House, memorizing lines from his intellectual speeches to impress the world - wide public with the American President, who ( a miracle!) is capable of speaking... The best of us are buried under the unbearably heavy burden of guilt... Why? Because, the best of us are knowledgeable, well educated people, who have learned during the course of self-education that every coup in the world takes the root in Washington. So, to take the root out, that's should be the Leninist' quest, I suppose. comradely, Lara YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
