Comrades, In his book, Masters of Deceit, J. Edgar Hoover, states:
"Every citizen has a duty to learn more about the menance that threatens his future, his home, his children, the peace of the world....Moreover, there is the sobering fact that since the end of World War II we have spent billions of dollars to defend ourselves from communist aggression. This burden will continue to mount until the world is free from the communist menance." Even though it is obvious that this fascist was refering to citizens knowing about the "communist menace," the truth of this is that the working-class must in fact learn to discern what it is that truly threatens our future. President Kennedy stated: "We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent or omnicient - that we are only six percent of the orld's population - that we cannot impose our will on the other ninety-four percent of mankind - that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity - and that therefore there cannot be an American soulution to every world problem." We all know that JFK was not the defender of human rights as evidenced by the genocide committed in Vietnam. Prior to his apparent change of "conscience" illustrated above, a change in conscience that resulted in his assassination for impeding the forward progress of the "New World Order," JFK stated his support: "The cause of all mankind is the cause of America...we are responsible for the maintenance of freedom all around the world." The "New World Order" ideology is based on the hegemonic role of US corporatism - fascism - which is developed to convince not only the US working-class, but the world, that the very survival of civilization is dependent on the US bourgeois fascists. We find the core of this ideology in statements made by Henry Pachter: "The national interest is not to protect individual American firms but to preserve a system of business...The American empire expresses its presence and exercises its influence through the capitalist mode of operation for which it keeps as much of the world 'open' as possible." This fascist "New World Order" ideology of corporatism is further illustrated by Benjamin Cohen, another bourgeois analyst who rejects the view that the US is imperialist, but stated that what was threatened in Vietnam was not the physical security of the US, but: "...the security of an economic and social system dependent upon the fruits conferred by America's hegemonical position. A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, and America's hegemonical position was broken, would be a world in which the American system itself would be seriously endangered." It becomes clear that the US bourgeoisie's foreign policy reflects the interests of those who control the political system. In the capitalist system where wealth is distributed in a highly unequitable manner, where it takes enormous amounts of money to wage a political campaign, where the mass media are owned and controlled by the wealthy, and where crucial investment decisions are in the hands of the rich, the political system will be controlled by those who own great wealth and those who serve their interests. Since the wealthy owe their fortunes to the workings of a capitalist economy at home and abroad, it stands to reason that the US corporate state will try to preserve capitalism and expand it where possible, and ensure the position of the wealthy. The US corporate state will seek to promote markets for US investment, to secure a dominating position over those resources and markets, and to crush those who might try to challenge the smooth functioning of global US corporatism. This ideology of the US hegemonical role of racist corporatism is also found in the rhetoric of one of America's most famous liars, FDR, who stated "...there are many minor children among the people of the world who need trustees..." particularly as FDR pointed out, "...the brown people of the east." The racist jingoism of US corporatism is found in a speech in 1952, as a Senator, LBJ stated: "We should announce, I believe, that any act of aggression, anywhere, by any Communist forces, will be regarded as an act of aggression by the Soviet Union...If anywhere in the world - by any means, open or concealed - Communism trespasses upon the soil of the free world, we should unleash all the power at our command upon the vitals of the Soviet Union. That is the policy we should build toward." LBJ further stated: "No matter what else we have of offensive or defensive weapons, without superior air power, America is a bound and throttled giant, impotent and easy prey to any yellow dwarf with a pocket knife." In my article, Fuhrer Bush and The Rise Of The Fourth Reich I stated that WW II was not fought to stop German, Italian and Japanese fascism but rather to weaken their power in order for the US bourgeoisie to consolidate their power of fascism as the dominant form. I further stated that WW II was not only an inter-imperialist rivialry between these nations , but, was an imperialist attack against socialism in the Soviet Union. Hitler, Mussolini and the US bourgeoisie led by FDR were proponents of corporatism which Mussolini correctly defined as fascism, therefore, in order for corporatism to be the dominant ideology, these imperialists had to fight amongst themselves for the hegemonical role of corporatism and this also had to include the destruction of socialism in order to fulfil Pachter's vision that, "The American empire expresses its presence and exercises its influence through the capitalist mode of operation for which it keeps as much of the world 'open' as possible." In order to preserve the hegemonical role of US corporatism - fascism - the US bourgeoisie needed to destroy not only the Axis but the Soviet Union and it is the policy of US corporatism that led to the ideology of "communist containment" and created the pretexts for the Cold War and the "war on communism." The Cold War was not representative of any real threat to the US but served as another pretext for US imperialism. JFK was elected president in 1960 partly because he played on the fears of the US working-class over the missle crisis with the Soviet Union. The truth of this "crisis" was that there was a severe imbalance which was in the favor of the US bourgeoisie. Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense from 1961-1968 admitted in 1982 that the "missile gap of 1960 was a function of forces within the Defense Department that, perhaps unconsciously, were trying to support their particular program - in that case, an expansion of U.S. missile production - by overstating the Soviet force." The US bourgeoisie created numerous exaggerations of the Soviet threat in order to justify US militarist expansion in spending and the need to convince the US and international working-class of a Soviet "threat" by creating insecurity and fear in the working-class that would allow the US bourgeoisie to continue its usurpation of "democracy" and "constitutional rights." All of the exaggerations are summed up by the Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense, Charles Duncan Jr. in 1970: "Why, you may ask, do some have the view that the Soviet Union has become the world's number one military power? The answer is that, to a large extent, we have created that image ourselves...in the understandable desire to reverse the anti-defense mood and propensity for reduced defense budgets of the early 1970's..." The US bourgeoisie faced the same dilemma as FDR did, the need to overcome the working-class's disillusionment with the spirit of US militarism and imperialism, so, in order for JFK and his succeeding fascists, the US bourgeoisie had to overcome this new isolationism termed the "Vietnam Syndrome." The "Vietnam Syndrome" was the reluctance of the US working-class to support foreign military interventions. The Cold War ideology was necessary to protect the corporatism of the US bourgeoisie in order to prevent mass dissent so this ideology is summed up by, and shows the nature and need of US imperialism: _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
