Americkaka (was Re: talking dogs)

Mike Weaver pic at gn.apc.org
Thu Jul 17 19:29:11 CDT 1997


Dan Kinney desponds

>What seems to have happened, in my perspective, is that the US in a
>sense has succeeded in forming a classless society and true democracy.
>The society functions relentlessly on the lowest common denominator -
>cash. <snip>

Money is one of the key tools of the capitalist ruling class in controlling
its minions, the bars of our prison in fact.  We either haven't got enough
of it and so spending our time scrabbling, leaving little energy for getting
out from under, or they are trying to seduce us and our children into
wanting more and more expensive short life shit, ensuring that we *think* we
never have enough .  Its a class society of the simplest kind and about as
democratic as a calvinist church.

>So I'm wondering where you see bright spots in the U.S.A.  Damned if I
>see any. Elections in the UK, France, Canada, Mexico are heartening but
>I sort of doubt significant. 

Elections shmelections.   Putting on the cleaner of two shirts says nothing
about how dirty they are.  Here Bleuuughair and his cronies transformed the
Labour Party into a safely electable party by ditching any commitment to
socialist, even social democratic, aims.  They are likely to become an
enduring government of authoritarian capitalism.
        Rosa Luxembourg said something like "...the road to the socialist
revolution is paved by a series of defeats."   Twenty five or so years ago,
in the optimistic post 1968 mode a friend of mine commented on how
despairing it must have been to be a political activist in England in the
1850's/60's,  British imperialism gaining strength hand over fist,  Chartism
a wave of resistance that had broken and subsided in 1848-50 and no visible
glimmers of hope.  What he ignored was that at that same time Marx, Engels,
Bakunin and buddies were arguing their way into launching the
programmes/manifestoes which inspired the following waves of anarchist and
socialist revolt, the aftermath of whose defeat we are currently experiencing.  

> I'm beginning to actually hate my own country, and it's not
>a good feeling.
        If you get out and add your abilities and energies to the currents
of resistance which are there,  soon you may identify with them enough to
stop seeing *your  country* as a monolith of shit and I guarantee you will
feel a whole lot better.  What those bright spots of resistance are some of
your fellow U.S. Americans will answer better than I.

Good luck 

Mike



   
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