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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:59:07 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [AI-Arms-Race] Re: Bush or Kerry: Does it Matter?
"Tweedle Dum or Tweedle Dee.
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On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, FSP National Office wrote:
>
> BUSH OR KERRY: DOES IT MATTER?
>
> Almost everybody says it does matter who wins the presidency
> in November. Filmmaker Michael Moore and Def Jam founder
> Russell "Rock the Vote" Simmons think so. So do AFL-CIO labor
> leaders, antiwar volunteers with United for Peace and Justice, the
> National Organization for Women, and Human Rights Campaign.
>
> The "anybody but Bush" crowd admits to John Kerry's glaring
> problems, but he's still their man. As they see it, the Democrats just
> need a backbone. The top priority is to kick the Republicans out of the
> White House and get the country back to "normal."
>
> But remember the Clinton presidency? Depleted uranium bombs
> dropping on Yugoslavia; sanctions and bombing in Iraq; missile strikes
> on Afghanistan and Sudan; the destruction of welfare; expansion of
> the "war on drugs" and death penalty. Who can forget the "benefits" of
> NAFTA, the Defense of Marriage Act, and the "don't ask, don't tell"
> policy that Clinton pushed for gays and lesbians in the military?
>
> Can those truly be the "good old days"?
>
> Is fascism at hand?
>
> Bush's unconstitutional attacks on freedom of speech and association
> through police agencies and the courts are indeed a manifestation of
> budding U.S. fascism. His lies about Iraq and his grotesque expansionism,
> the brutal treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, the
> denial of the rights of immigrants, strikers, and demonstrators, the coup
> against President Aristide in Haiti: all this leads liberals and labor
> officials
> to argue that the Democrats are the only hope for saving civil liberties.
>
> What they don't or won't see is that the problem is not Bush or even his
> party, but the system itself.
>
> The threat of American fascism is not short term, and cannot be eliminated
> in the next election or any election. Fascism does not arise from the bad
> will of malicious demagogues, but from a crisis of capitalism so severe
> that it cannot be solved in any other way. When the capitalist class can no
> longer maintain stable rule through relatively democratic forms of government,
> it resorts to a police state. If necessary, it will provoke a violent, racist,
> anti-Semitic, nationalist, homophobic, anti-woman, and anti-union mass
> movement a fascist movement to impose its will on rebellious workers
> and dissenters.
>
> As long as capitalism exists, the danger of fascism exists regardless of who
> sits in the White House.
>
> The radicalizing effect of neoliberalism
>
> Free-traders of both parties, including Kerry, promised that neoliberalism
> would bring prosperity to our hemisphere. Instead it has been a disaster.
>
> In Latin America, joblessness has doubled in the last 10 years, incomes have
> shrunk, and 200 million people live in poverty. In the U.S., hundreds of
> thousands of well-paying jobs have dried up. Dissatisfaction boils over the
> healthcare crisis and corporate corruption. Public education, social security,
> credit card debt and affordable housing are flashpoint issues.
>
> At the same time, the European Union is challenging the economic
> hegemony of the U.S.
>
> For U.S. imperialism to stay on top, workers in this country must be forced
> to work longer for less, fight the rulerswars, and expect less social benefits
> from their taxpayer dollars. This will spell impoverishment for millions
> of people and generate enormous discontent just as it has in Argentina,
> Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, and throughout Latin America.
>
> The unfailing result will be a widespread desire for radical change.
>
> In our hands is placed the power
>
> No political force on our planet is stronger than the U.S. bourgeoisie except
> the U.S. working class. In this profound fact lies the hope for the hemisphere
> and the world.
>
> The multi-racial, multi-national U.S working class is capable of overthrowing
> the system that breeds demagogues like Bush and replacing it with socialism,
> a sharing of the bounty workers create. But first workers need a leadership
> that
> has broken with the failed strategy of being a pressure group on the Democrats.
>
> In 2000 and 2002, the AFL-CIO and its affiliates spent $187 million to elect
> Democrats, most of whom voted for the Patriot Act and the Iraq war. This
> year, the AFL-CIO will spend $44 million. And for what? A man like Kerry
> who wants to send 40,000 more soldiers to Iraq and is more hostile to Cuba
> and Venezuela than Bush!
>
> It is time for a new Workers' Declaration of Independence from the twin
> parties of capitalism, independence from labor bureaucrats who sabotage
> strikes, independence from those who make war on working people here
> and abroad.
>
> Join the Million Worker March in Washington, D.C.
> (www.millionworkermarch.org) on October 17! Ask your union or
> labor council to endorse the march and its independent workingclass
> agenda. As the song says, "In our hands is placed a power greater
> than their hoarded gold!" All we have to do is use it!
>
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