This is the first of a three-part series related to
the upcoming U.S. elections. The second installment will be
entitled “Do You Want Your Fascism Sooner, or Later?” and the third, “The
‘Lesser of the Evils’ Argument from the Class-Analysis Perspective.”
Western civilization
“would be a good idea,” Gandhi once observed. It’s depraved and
uncivilized, harming the many for the privileged few, responsible for death,
destruction and human misery on an unprecedented scale while pretending respect
for democratic values it deplores. America is the leading force of evil in
a world increasingly unfit and unsafe to live in, ruled by its privileged class
serving its own interests exclusively, exploiting others for profit and
dominance.
In 1848, in The
Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels proclaimed that capitalism
contained the “seeds of its own destruction.”
They saw the principal seed as the creation by capitalism of the
laboring class, the workers who provided the labor power that made the
increasing number of machines that the capitalists were creating, that is “the
proletariat.” They saw that the
class conflict between the owners and the workers over what would happen to the
surplus value produced by the work on the capitalists’ machines by the
proletariat would eventually lead to the takeover of these “means of
production” by the workers and the establishment of a socialist state. That would be one in which the means
of production would be owned collectively and managed for the benefit of all
the people, not just the former owners.
Well, it hasn’t exactly
happened that way. With few
exceptions, the international owning (ruling) class has proved itself to be
marvelously adept at turning the workers away from active class struggle. In fact, in numbers of industrialized
countries over time since the end of the First World War and the virtually
simultaneous occurrence of the Russian Revolution on Nov. 7 (new calendar),
1917, which helped lead to that ending, the ruling classes of various
capitalist countries have managed to enlist large numbers of workers to support
their efforts to maintain control of the state apparatus. Thus they brilliantly have been able
to maintain their exploitation of those very workers whose support they enlist,
as well as of those workers who they don’t.
This pattern has been observed for almost a century since Mussolini
created the first fascist mass base, the “Black Shirts” in Italy, to the
present time in the United States where Donald Trump is in the process of
creating a mass base for his own form of fascism. In the present time, in most of the
advanced (and not-so-advanced) European capitalist countries, this is observed
in the growth of the Right-wing parties, anti-immigrant to begin with, just
like the Turmpistas.
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Source: The Greanville Post
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