Unemployment continues to mount as does home fore closures. Society begins to move as the economic crisis develops. This social response then polarizes society. At this point the left and right side of the movement reach a point – a fork in the road – a polarization within their ranks. Which way do we go? Who are our friends and enemies? As the working class further fragments into hard economic strata, the left side of the movement begins to fragment and break between progressives, with deep political and economic ties to the better situated workers or the economic/political middle and communists/socialists striving to recruit and express the demand of the workers from the lens of the most destitute of the proletarians. The right-wing side of the movement polarizes between reactionary and fascist. Reactionaries seek to restore the stability of the system based on the past. Their calling card is a demand to return to the past and the Constitution in the pre Civil War years, or slavery and white supremacy. The new American fascists do not seek a return to the past but express the need for society to leap forward deploying state violence to stabilize and contain social and economic polarization. A new fascist movement is gathering force worldwide to maintain private property for the benefit of the few. This movement is emerging in response to an objective spontaneous movement arising with an impulse to organize society as a cooperative society based on the new productive forces. Much is at stake, and those revolutionaries who are fighting for a cooperative society need to be clear about what’s arising and what it represents so that the proper tactics can be used to carry humanity to victory. Fascist movement The new fascist movement is composed of many different individuals and organizations, which are not monolithic, but they all want to take the country in the same direction and have the same goals. The goals of this movement are not reactionary as defined above. Unlike the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party, the new American fascists do not seek to restore the social and political order of the past. The social and political order of the past means the social order of the period of legal segregation and the strengthening of the wage labor-capital bond as the social contract. This political aspects of the social order was shaped on the basis of the defeat of Reconstruction and an expanding economy. As the federal troops were pulled from the defeated South, reaction organized the so-called "revolt of the poor whites" against newly freed slaves. Cloaking themselves in the mantle of "saving the South" and the "Southern way of life" - (which meant white supremacy and cling to the moral imperatives of the Constitutionalist Confederates), the KKK entered history as agent of Yankee finance capital and hangman of democracy. The aim of the reactionary movement was to "freeze time" and restore as much of the old social order as possible. This old social order remained intact until a revolution in production occurred - mechanization of agriculture, that compelled Southern society to leap forward to a new technological basis. This revolution in the productive forces excited the Civil rights Movement to life and would go on to shatter Jim Crow segregation and reform social relations in America. Those that make up the new fascist movement do not want to take society back to the era of Jim Crow, but want to take the country into the twenty-first century organized around the new tools of production, electronics. These individuals have a vision of reconstructing America. As the productive relations between workers and capitalists are torn asunder, they see the writing on the wall. Their goal is to preserve private property; privately generated means and forms of wealth and privilege, even if it is at the expense of the capitalist economic relations of production or the value producing system. As the electronic revolution matures, the capitalist is becoming as outdated as the worker in the exact same manner - if not more, that rendered the sharecropper and planter class obsolete. This is the crux of the social turmoil going on worldwide. The globe is caught in the throes of the kind of social revolution Marx wrote about. Angry masses are raging against skyrocketing food and energy prices and stagnating wages and unemployment in India, Senegal, Yemen, Indonesia, Morocco, Cameroon, Brazil, Panama, the Philippines, Egypt, Mexico and elsewhere. These protests have targeted governments’ handling of the crisis, are widespread, and gathering pace. As one British newspaper observed, they "may spark a new revolution." Millions of workers have been dispossessed of their livelihood – whether it is a small plot of land or their job in the urban centers or through wars – and have been uprooted from their home countries. Millions have been forced to migrate, leaving behind home and loved ones to join the global workforce. They are becoming the new global workers who trek the globe in search of work. Globalized production globalizes the producer. Migration is going on from poor countries to rich countries; from poorer countries to poor countries. It’s not just transnational, but domestic too – from one region to another within one nation. A qualitatively new level of flight is underway. This mass migration compounds the social and political problems faced in every country. The global worker within our midst is a constant reminder to domestic workers that capital is failing worldwide. The United States is not untouched by the widespread social turmoil in other countries. "You can’t do this to people year after year – that is, upturn their lives, take away what they thought they had earned without provoking rather intense political reactions", a well known author and commentator William Greider warned in an interview with Amy Goodman, the host of the radio program Democracy Now. "People, out of their own distress and anger will organize their own politics, and they will make themselves seen and heard around this country." Recently, Admiral Dennis Blair, the new U.S. Director of National Intelligence, emphasized this point by warning the Senate Intelligence Committee that the deepening economic crisis posed perhaps the gravest threat to stability and national security. Reports from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI warn that "the consequences of prolonged economic downturn, real estate foreclosures, unemployment and the inability to obtain credit will create a fertile environment" for organizing from both the left and the right. (Department of Homeland Security, Right Wing Extremism, April 2009) Such warnings are not going unheeded by either the capitalists or the revolutionaries. Fascism's target The target of the new fascist movement is the same dispossessed sector of the class that the revolutionaries on the side of the workers are going after. The industrial heartland of America – known as the Rust Belt, claims the highest concentration of the industrial proletariat in the country. Today, due to the electronic revolution this industrial heartland is becoming a wasteland of misery to the millions of dispossessed workers who once could count on good jobs, decent homes, affordable health care, and the wherewithal to provide their children with a college education and a stable future. While made to feel ashamed to stand in the unemployment and food lines, and if lucky, to labor in the fields picking fruit and vegetables, these newly dispossessed are now meeting their counterparts who they had been taught to see as "welfare queens" and "deadbeat dads" and "illegal." "What happened?" is a question that keeps resonating in their minds. Dividing the workers Ideology is what holds a movement together, any movement. The fascist movement is no different. How will they drum up this ideology? In the same way that German and Italian fascism had to proceed from the most violent and brutal elements of their national history, the rise of the fascist movement in America will do the same. Historically, the ruling class has used the ideology of white supremacy to rally the most economically secure - sector, of the working class to their side. This tactic has been used to divide and conquer the workers at every potential juncture of class unity. The isolation and oppression of the masses of African Americans is again being utilized, but under new conditions. The ruling class is attacking them, not simply because they are Black, but because they are poor. Between the close of the Second World Imperialist War and into the 1970’s, the attack on the blacks as blacks, had as its goal containment of the stability between capitalist and workers. The white section of the working class, often morally supporting the fight of the blacks, said "go slow." Go slow meant as the system expanded blacks would enter the industrial order at the bottom of the industrial social ladder. "Go slow" meant "I cannot give you my job to make things right, because all that would do is switch position and the same problem emerges with me on the bottom instead of you." "Then I will have to fight like hell against you and nothing really changes." The point is that the reactionary propaganda was not designed to keep the black poor but to moderate and stabilize the employer-employee relationship as the system expanded. The watch word was "a rising boat lifts all, even those on the bottom deck." Today, what may seem to be the same propaganda is different or rather have a different purpose. All this propaganda – (that Blacks are "shiftless, can't hold a job, they have babies out of wedlock, they won't finish school, they use drugs, and they are criminally inclined") – is all to set the basis for this attack. The history of racism (white supremacy) makes such fascist propaganda acceptable. From this stronghold, fascist propaganda can easily proceed to place the so-called white "trailer trash" and the "illegal" immigrants in the same category. The tactic of white supremacy worked during the period of industry, developing nation-states, and imperialism. The material foundation existed for the ruling class to extend privileges to one section of the workers over another. The ruling class maintained the allegiance of a section of the white workers through bribery based on segregation, which translated into higher wages and a higher standard of living than the rest of the workers. Electronic technology eliminates the need for workers and, as a result, the capitalists have steadily destroyed this system of bribery. Also being destroyed with it, however, are the bonds that kept those workers politically and ideologically tied to the capitalists. The conditions are turning these workers from the political bulwark of capitalism to its weakest link. The workers, every economic layer, are awakening and beginning to realize they have been duped and used against their own interests. Once politically awakened they will unleash their wrath against their class enemies. This moment is objectively near. This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from _http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm_ (http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm)
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