"Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution" ^^^^ CB: When they say it that way, it makes me think cut the taxes on the Super Rich even more. Evict everybody and give their homes to the rich ( giggles). Lets provoke a revolution from the bottom up.
The contradictions inherent in the movement of capitalist society impress themselves upon the practical bourgeois most strikingly in the changes of the periodic cycle, through which modern industry runs, and whose crowning point is the universal crisis. That crisis is once again approaching, although as yet but in its preliminary stage; and by the universality of its theatre and the intensity of its action it will drum dialectics even into the heads of the mushroom-upstarts of the new, holy Prusso-German empire. Karl Marx London January 24, 1873 http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p3.htm The First World financial crisis in this period is drumming dialectics into the upstart mushrooms of finance capital who drum it into their upstart politicians of the tea-Republican Party in the US ( other government agents in Britain, Egypt, Greece and France); who attack whole Peoples with government austerity, cuts to public wages and services. In the US, the movement that elected Barack Obama saw negation in the tea-Republican victories in the 2010 elections. The rightwing governors' austerity assaults on a broad spectrem of the working class and People has begotten the beginning of the negation of the negation in Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana, and other locations. "But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation. " In a way, the world revolution at this time is taking more of the IWW -form than the Bolshevik -form. There is no vanguard party leading or organizing the spontaneous uprisings of the working class from London to Cairo, from Madison Wisconsin to Athens. Wait until the next Mexican national election. Aye que bueno ! On the other hand , in some ways the trade union movement is spontaneously turning into a vanguard party of the working class. The UAW had a special conference and at it conclusion International President Bob King led a protest that shut down a bank for 30 minutes (!). March on Wall Street, indeed. The world revolution of this period has started as a spontaneous uprising of the working class in much of the capitalist colonialist centers. There has been no vanguard party. Yet , trade unions in Egypt and Michigan are spontaneously functioning like vanguard parties. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
