Waistline wrote:
Gingrich’s “right wing party of big government” is Webb’s “ultra right.”
When Gingrich and Webb advance the same theoretical/political
proposition, from radically different ideological points of view, one must
ask what
the heck is going on.
CB: And think it might be true.
A major effect of Obama just _being_ President and Black is to drive a
section of rightwing extremists nuts such that they come flying out
the wordwork ( or exorcised to the body politic surface) and creating
a rightwing ...uhh.. I was gonna say fringe, but of course if they
form a mass party, they might not be fringe. Anyway, Gingrich's fears
of splitting the Republican party to the right ( a hard version of
Ross Perot in 1992) could be good for the left.
^^^
Webb is pretty much a garden variety American socialist, steeped in the
old tradition of the American populist movement of the 1880’s and its
anti-monopoly strategy.
CB: That's quaint (smile)
Webb is about as close as America can get to the kind
of socialist of the era of the rise of European social democracy. Socialism
as it evolved in Europe was the petty bourgeois social democratic
movement developing against the backdrop of the intersection of fours
primary
classes driving the transition from feudalism to capitalism. There were
other
classes and strata, but the four primary classes were serf, nobility,
capitalist and proletarians. As a dynamic social movement, socialism
collapsed with the Second International. Webb is thus somewhat of an oddball
considering that America, founded as a pure capitalist country, has never
generated a social democratic movement. What was instead generated was the
populist movement and a large anarcho-syndicalism political current or garden
variety factory based council communist ideology. .
Gingrich political career begins in the post segregation era, winning his
fist political office in 1978. He is a radical capitalist politician from
Georgia, with all the traditional benchmarks of the historic Southern
elite and Southern political establishment. As a former college history
professor and author, Gingrich is deeply aware of the revolution in the
productive forces, why and how it has changed the historic form of class and
forms of wealth world wide. Gingrich distinction is his fight to realign
American capitalism on a new technological basis and ultra advanced
bourgeois
political superstructure. Gingrich steps forth as the intellectual 21
century antithesis of Karl Marx.
Between Webb and Gingrich as political poles of capital, arises the need
for a class party. Woever specific conditions must exist for a class party
rather than a 3rd party. The secret to the conditions is in our own
history.
III.
The pre-Civil War development of the Republican Party is more instructive
than searching European history for clues to our own revolutionary
process. First, political development goes through particular stages that
respond and is conditioned by new technological-economic and social change.
Second, this process starts with the destruction of the old party system and
creation of a new one. Third, although multiple attempts to build a party
responsive to a new political period often take place, the party that
succeeds
reflects an ability to identify the new needs and how to truly meet them.
WL
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