As much as I love Billy Stewart, even he's not helping draw whatever conclusions I'm supposed to draw from Obama.
I'm not seeing anything here but a political vacuum for the communist alternative you're talking about. Everybody in America believes in capital, jobs, and wage labor. -----Original Message----- >From: waistli...@aol.com >Sent: Feb 27, 2009 9:31 AM >To: marxism-thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu >Subject: Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Black History Month 2009 Change and >continuity: 4 >................. Obama’s campaign momentarily created a gravitational pull strong enough to pull a large section of our working class spontaneously gravitating to the right, as their first political impulse. This is due precisely to the fact that labor is tied to capital by a thousand threads and the impulse to recapture economic security - a job, means spontaneously recreating the capital-labor bond. The spontaneous impulse to recapture a lost past and stability. Here is where we meet the fascist danger in the flesh. This does not mean pushing Obama to the "left," but rather establishing economic communism, devoid of its historic ideology as a form of Sovietism, as a political pole. Obama and no one else is to be "pushed to the left." Rather, establishing a communist polarity will compelled everything in the middle to seek refuge with this pole as a consistent fighter against fascism. Obama has to be quantified while knowing such quantification is bound to be wrong, outside stating he is the chief political representative/executive of imperial capital. This of course is no quantification but a qualification or quality. Obama is capital personified. Knowing this and a "dime" "won't even shine ones shoes, on Broadway." Obama also brings to an end the peculiar phenomenon of the black leader. A historical character that pushed himself unto history as the product result of open fascism in the Jim Crow South and his police state cousin in the North’s Negro conclaves. At the close of the Civil War the blacks began their spontaneous drift throughout American society. With the overthrow of Reconstruction and the institution of fascism and Jim Crow the structural relations within and between classes in America were recast. The black leader emerges as the "go between" - navigator, between the structures separating black society from white. Between 1865 and the 1890’s there were leaders and political leaders in government that were black. These leaders were not the peculiar phenomenon of the black leader. The counter revolution was the condition for the birth of the Black leader. ........ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
