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Clay Clairborne’s blog comments, “Some thoughts on Michael Brown the Law in
St. Louis,” recall his life as a young black male living in St. Louis between
1966 – 1975.
http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/08/some-thoughts-on-michael-brown-law-in.html
Clay’s story of police harassment is pretty standard stuff in the life of black
men in America. Every encounter with the police threatens to become a life and
death issue, which is why many young men run from the police knowing they
cannot outrun a bullet. The system of murder of the black males is carved into
the architecture of the superstructure. However one accounts for this system of
murder of black men, the system itself is justified by white racial ideology.
Even as this system survived one stage of development after another, something
profound changed in the life of our country and indeed the world since Clay’s
recollection of 1966 – 1975.
America today is post Jim Crow segregation. Jim Crow segregation was overturned
between 1966 and 1975. It was the legal system of segregation that held the
black masses together, monitoring and restricting their movement in society.
All classes of blacks were segregated based on state violence, more or less
supported by the white population in general.
I remember this period of history in Detroit, Michigan. The mini-riot
(Kercheval Incident) occurred in 1966, almost one year to the date from the
August 11, 1965 Watts rebellion and one year before the Detroit 1967 rebellion.
http://www.detroits-great-rebellion.com/Kercheval---1966.html
At that time, Detroit July 1967 was the greatest uprising against the state
since the Civil War.
The period 1966-1975 was one of reform and the winning of concessions
worldwide. Marxist Glossary defines reform, reformism and concessions. Reform
is change in a system which does not change its essential quality and
characteristic. Reform is change within and between classes without changing
the property relations. Concession is winning of a benefit that does not reform
the system. For instance, winning a .50 cent raise or a week vacation is a
concession. Winning legal status for industrial unionism and fair housing are
reforms because the relations within and between classes is reformed without
changing property relations. In America reforms generally (more often than not)
require Supreme Court rulings for implementation.
http://www.amazon.com/Marxist-Glossary-Expanded-Twenty-First-Narrative/dp/1499145500
Neocolonialism was the reform dismantling Europe’s direct colonial system
opening the door for post WW II American financial imperialism. The last phase
of neo-colonialism was unfolding during the period 1966 – 1975. The victory of
the Vietnamese revolution and the 1976 unification of Vietnam is a historical
bookmark. The neocolonial state peaks and begins decline. The ascendency of the
new nonbanking financial architecture takes place, culminating in the
domination of speculative finance over the world total capital. Computerization
and robotics qualitatively restructure the environment of bourgeois commodity
production.
Our Marxist philosophy informs us that change takes place a certain way. A
qualitative change in the environment of something (the value producing system
that is capitalism) sets the conditions for change in the something, inasmuch
as one thing is the environment for other things. Behind this gibberish is the
law of causality. Causality is why things change, while dialectics refer to how
things change.
Now, history informs us that causality opens the door and makes things
possible. It does not make things happen. Making things happen is the job of
humanity, conscious revolutionaries and organizations. Further, causality makes
some things possible and other things impossible.
When the last waves of rebellions swept America in the 1960s throughout the
1970s, definitively ending in the early 1980s in Tampa and Liberty city
Florida, reform of the system was still possible. Throughout the 1980s the new
non-banking financial system came into being, and became dominate during the
1990s ushering in the struggle against globalism and Seattle 1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests
Today there are no more reforms left in capitalism, because that, which was
fundamental to the systems rise and development has qualitatively changed.
Capitalism achieved dominance as a mode of production based on the industrial
revolution. The industrial revolution has ended and now the robotic revolution,
based on the semiconductor, is underway.
The semiconductor based system of computers and robotics are qualitatively new
means of production. Once a qualitatively new system of productive
