Obama has not been in office very long and his bipartisan rhetoric, will in practice be jettisoned; is being jettisoned as he pointedly state "I won the election," and the real Obama will emerge. The real Obama is of course the CEO for capital, and everything he stated and promised in the election campaign. His job is to institutionalize the new/changing social relations of production, expressing this new stage in the decay of capital and the technological revolution. As a traditional Roosevelt type Democrat he will expand the social safety net, primarily for what in all his campaign speeches, he calls the hard working middle class and sections of the poorest workers.
Interestingly, Bush W. and Reagan's administration "busted the budget" and "expanded government," only directing government funds where they wanted them. The Democrats want a different direction. Only social revolution can stop certain things. The huge mass that was once dubbed the reserve army of labor, was called such precisely because it was a reserve to be thrown into the battle for production during peak period of production. No level of production and consumption today can throw this huge mass of labor into the production process, because of what Marx called "the progress of industry." This mass of labor has been rendered superfluous to the production of capital as an expanded value in the absolute sense. Here is the 800 lb. gorilla in the living room many deny exist, with other claiming it is not really a gorilla at all. From reserve army to a permanent caste of proletarians shut out the civic society of the bourgeoisie. Change most certainly must be from the bottom up. Here is the bottom. Below is how the late Comrade Mark Jones described this mass Oct. 1998 - a description I agreed with and wrote about alongside him in 1999/2000. "The precocious success of 'decarbonisation' and dematerialisation has produced this outcome, one where the greatest reserve army of labour in history -- more than half of humankind: confronts the greatest accumulation of productive power known to history, across a social nomansland which leaves each inaccessible to the other and has resulted in locking the majority of humankind out of the benefits of production and indeed out of society and in a sense, out of history. (Note: "inaccessible to the other and has resulted in locking the majority of humankind out of the benefits of production" = locked out the civic society of the bourgeoisie = from reserve of industry to permanent outcast) "Any real new upswing or serious resumption of production (I do not mean the kind of illusory boomlets which always occur within real depressions, and did for example throughout the 1930s, when the 'turning of the corner' was monotonously proclaimed and always proven wrong within days or weeks) is certain to be short-lived since it must press against the absolute limit of valorisation inscribed within the mode of production itself, and which history has now as it were brought to the surface." (end quote) (Note: "is certain to be short-lived since it must press against the absolute limit of valorisation inscribed within the mode of production itself," = the historical limit of capitalist production). WL. This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from _http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm_ (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm) The most noteworthy aspect of taking the "high road" is that Obama can appear, and probably believes he is, totally nonpartisan, bipartisan, or whatever, ^^^^ CB: Well isn't he ? That's basically what you say here. all along being forced to take more liberal or social democratic measures to correct the heinous state of affairs he has bequeathed. A shift in the overall political direction of the country won't depend on him, but if popular pressure forces him to move to the left, he would do so. ^^^^^^ CB: Which is what he says. Changes comes from the bottom up. ^^^^ **************Get a jump start on your taxes. Find a tax professional in your neighborhood today. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=Tax+Return+Preparation+%26+Filing&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000004) _______________________________________________ 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
