Intersection of class interests explains Obama. It's one reason he can't be trusted, and another that he could be an engine of significant reform if pushed hard enough from a mass social democratic movement.
At 11:30 AM 3/6/2009, waistli...@aol.com wrote: >"Every voice has to be heard. Every idea must be >considered ... The status quo is the one option >that is not on the table," Obama said during the >White House forum on what he calls the greatest >threat to the U.S. economy rising health >care costs. Mindful of the demise of the Clinton >plan, Obama warned, "Those who seek to block >any reform at all, any reform at any cost, will >not prevail this time around." The U.S. system >is the world's costliest; the country spends >some $2.4 trillion a year on health care. It >leaves an estimated 48 million >people uninsured, and many others lack adequate >insurance." As Chief Operating Executive for the >capitalist, President Obama is extremely >astute, skilled in the art of politics and the >art of the possible. Watching his presentation >on television and his skillful handling >of diverse interest should serve as a training >manual for Marxist, who seek to make sense of >today's new and crisis. Obama's attempt - >concerted push, to reform the health care >system - today, is the result of crisis of the >system and a specific alignment, intersection >of class interest. All of the interest of >intersecting classes and class fragments and >their expression in political lobbies, >were present at his "health care summit." The >only interest absence was that of a coherent >communist political polarity, in society and >the Health Care Summit. In America, at this time >there is not a communist political lobby, >although there is forming a rather >large communist contingent of American society. >Those who need and desire health care coverage, >but have no money to pay for such are an >objective communists contingent. This communist >contingent - an objective material configuration >in the population, cuts across rigid concepts >of class as a fixed economic category. Class >intersection of interest and how the communist >fight to articulate the voice of the >proletariat, from the lens of the poorest >workers and how their interest intersect with >various layers of the working class and >other strata, is the political framework by >which communist operate and prevents us from >being co opted by the bourgeoisie. WL. _______________________________________________ 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
