As Democrats Press For War, Left Must Demand Peace And Social Transformation
STRATEGIZE! DEMOCRATS, LEFT, WAR
By Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com
January 13th, 2017
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The Democrats are whipping up war hysteria and "cynically seeking to harness
people's well-founded fears of Trump's domestic policies in order to
sabotage the possibility of a relaxation of international tensions." Some
folks have taken the bait. "Leftists that think they can exploit the split
between the Trump troglodytes (fascists) and the Obama/Clinton/Old Line GOP
War Party (fascists) will ultimately wind up caught in a pincer between the
two."
"The Left's job is to oppose the warmongers, not band with them."
As is ordained by law, at the end of the week much of President Obama's
legacy will become Donald Trump's powers, including the power to detain
Americans indefinitely (forever) without trial or charge, an authority the
First Black President secured from Congress in 2011. Obama's wars become
Trump's wars, which, if Trump follows Obama's example - and if he succumbs
to the furious pressures of leading Democrats, old line Republicans and an
openly aggressive and "politicized" national security establishment - will
be expanded and multiplied. The most imminent threats to human survival
under a Trump presidency flow, not from the billionaire's own belligerent
instincts and unpredictability, but from the momentum of Obama's policies of
ever-escalating confrontation with Russia and China - his deliberate
"pivots" towards brinksmanship on all the geopolitical fronts of Empire.
"U.S. policy is to militarily intimidate the world into submission - a
gangster's game."
It is the Democrats that have whipped up war hysteria and a new McCarthyism,
attacking Trump from the Right to force him to keep Obama's imperial "surge"
moving forward. With western economic power fading fast, U.S. policy is to
militarily intimidate the world into submission - a gangster's game. For the
Lords of Capital and their national security servants, Obama's greatest
achievement was to put the U.S. back on the offensive after George Bush's
defeat and humiliation in Iraq. From their perspective, Obama has already
"Made America Great Again" with his "humanitarian" military intervention
doctrine, trampling every principle of international law, including the
sovereignty of nations, in Libya and Syria. Trump's talk of "deal-making"
with Russia and China threatens to slow the imperial offensive.
The ruling class realignment that congealed in the Clinton campaign's Big
Tent sees any relaxation of U.S. military pressures against Beijing and
Moscow as a prelude to imperial collapse. For them, de-escalation is an
existential threat. They don't give a damn about the damage Donald Trump
intends to inflict on what remains of the U.S. social safety net - and
neither did Obama, who came into office scheming to forge a Grand Austerity
Bargain with the Republicans. And, if his preventive detention bill were not
enough, Obama's support for creation of a "Ministry of Truth" - officially,
a joint governmental commission to police the media for "foreign
disinformation and manipulation" - screams out to high heaven that
protection of civil liberties is not part of their agenda, either. Internet
publications like Black Agenda Report, cited by the Washington Post as "fake
news" and "minions" of Russia, will be punished for deviance from imperial
"exceptionalism" and aggressive war policies.
"Trump's talk of 'deal-making' with Russia and China threatens to slow the
imperial offensive."
This is all about war. The Democrats, massed corporate media and the fully
mobilized legions of spooks and disinformation specialists are cynically
seeking to harness people's well-founded fears of Trump's domestic policies
in order to sabotage the possibility of a relaxation of international
tensions. Leftists that think they can exploit the split between the Trump
troglodytes (fascists) and the Obama/Clinton/Old Line GOP War Party
(fascists) will ultimately wind up caught in a pincer between the two.
The ruling class is, indeed, in an acute political crisis, to match its
larger, systemic crisis. The duopoly system that has served the rich so well
for most of the history of the Republic has come undone, split at the seams,
endangering the corporate-imposed national "consensus" on empire and war.
The War Party, deploying every disinformation trick in the book, foments
anti-Russian hysteria to create a mass base for its imperial agenda. They
point fingers at phantom "minions" of Moscow in order to make leftists into
political foot soldiers of the Pentagon, Langley and the military industrial
complex. MoveOn.org moves to their beat, as does the entire Congressional
Black Caucus, including Barbara Lee (D-CA), the nation's most left-leaning
congressperson. Fine; they are duty-bound to go down with the Bad Ship
Hillary. But the social movement activists that allow themselves to be swept
up in the Democrats' offensive-from-the-Right against Trump are the biggest
dupes of all.
"They point fingers at phantom 'minions' of Moscow in order to make leftists
into political foot soldiers of the Pentagon, Langley and the military
industrial complex."
The Democrats are incapable of agitating for anything more than defense of
Barack Obama's "legacy" - chiefly, his doomed Affordable Care Act, which was
already disintegrating from its own contradictions and whose final demise
will create an acute crisis that cries out for single payer health
insurance, the outcome Obamacare was designed to forestall. The Left should
be making that demand right now, rather than helping Democrats join with
Republicans to patch together an even worse private-based system, down the
road.
The precariat economy that is emerging from Obama's post-Meltdown
restructuring, in which 94 percent of the new "jobs" are so contingent,
inadequate and insecure they can hardly be called jobs at all, demands a
National Minimum Income - a potentially transformative leap that the Left
should be loudly championing, right now.
Five years after Occupy Wall Street, the Left should finally call for the
nationalization - not fragmentation - of the big banks, and creation of a
public development bank to rebuild the national infrastructure without going
into debt to private capital. Anybody that doubts masses of people will join
in this demand doesn't know their fellow Americans and their deep hatred for
Wall Street banks.
"The social movement activists that allow themselves to be swept up in the
Democrats' offensive-from-the-Right against Trump are the biggest dupes of
all."
Ferguson set the new Black movement on a course of confrontation with the
Mass Black Incarceration State, in all its manifestations. Obama's legacy -
and that of the Black misleadership class that has collaborated with mass
Black incarceration for two generations - is to intensify intelligence
gathering in Black communities, while dispersing Black population
concentrations through gentrification. Trump or no Trump, there is no
avoiding the logic of the movement's central grassroots demand: Black
community control of the police. Non-Blacks on the Left must support that
demand.
There is no such thing as a genuine Left that supports imperialism, but
there are plenty of fakers that do, including phony socialists. How sad -
and maddening, at the same time - that a Donald Trump can speak of "cutting
down" on "regime change," while purported leftists rally to Obama's
"humanitarian" military interventionism, the lip-stick on the imperial pig.
The Democrats want war so badly, they are fouling their bourgeois
institutional nest and bearing down hard from the Right to prevent any
let-up in tensions with Russia and China. The Left's job is to oppose the
warmongers, not to band with them.
There is no mystery to what the moment demands. What's needed is Left
movements for social transformation, not a farcical, Democrat-led anti-Trump
pseudo-movement, whose real agenda is war.
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Strategize! Democrats, Left, War
By Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com
January 13th, 2017
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The Democrats are whipping up war hysteria and "cynically seeking to harness
people's well-founded fears of Trump's domestic policies in order to
sabotage the possibility of a relaxation of international tensions." Some
folks have taken the bait. "Leftists that think they can exploit the split
between the Trump troglodytes (fascists) and the Obama/Clinton/Old Line GOP
War Party (fascists) will ultimately wind up caught in a pincer between the
two."
"The Left's job is to oppose the warmongers, not band with them."
As is ordained by law, at the end of the week much of President Obama's
legacy will become Donald Trump's powers, including the power to detain
Americans indefinitely (forever) without trial or charge, an authority the
First Black President secured from Congress in 2011. Obama's wars become
Trump's wars, which, if Trump follows Obama's example - and if he succumbs
to the furious pressures of leading Democrats, old line Republicans and an
openly aggressive and "politicized" national security establishment - will
be expanded and multiplied. The most imminent threats to human survival
under a Trump presidency flow, not from the billionaire's own belligerent
instincts and unpredictability, but from the momentum of Obama's policies of
ever-escalating confrontation with Russia and China - his deliberate
"pivots" towards brinksmanship on all the geopolitical fronts of Empire.
"U.S. policy is to militarily intimidate the world into submission - a
gangster's game."
It is the Democrats that have whipped up war hysteria and a new McCarthyism,
attacking Trump from the Right to force him to keep Obama's imperial "surge"
moving forward. With western economic power fading fast, U.S. policy is to
militarily intimidate the world into submission - a gangster's game. For the
Lords of Capital and their national security servants, Obama's greatest
achievement was to put the U.S. back on the offensive after George Bush's
defeat and humiliation in Iraq. From their perspective, Obama has already
"Made America Great Again" with his "humanitarian" military intervention
doctrine, trampling every principle of international law, including the
sovereignty of nations, in Libya and Syria. Trump's talk of "deal-making"
with Russia and China threatens to slow the imperial offensive.
The ruling class realignment that congealed in the Clinton campaign's Big
Tent sees any relaxation of U.S. military pressures against Beijing and
Moscow as a prelude to imperial collapse. For them, de-escalation is an
existential threat. They don't give a damn about the damage Donald Trump
intends to inflict on what remains of the U.S. social safety net - and
neither did Obama, who came into office scheming to forge a Grand Austerity
Bargain with the Republicans. And, if his preventive detention bill were not
enough, Obama's support for creation of a "Ministry of Truth" - officially,
a joint governmental commission to police the media for "foreign
disinformation and manipulation" - screams out to high heaven that
protection of civil liberties is not part of their agenda, either. Internet
publications like Black Agenda Report, cited by the Washington Post as "fake
news" and "minions" of Russia, will be punished for deviance from imperial
"exceptionalism" and aggressive war policies.
"Trump's talk of 'deal-making' with Russia and China threatens to slow the
imperial offensive."
This is all about war. The Democrats, massed corporate media and the fully
mobilized legions of spooks and disinformation specialists are cynically
seeking to harness people's well-founded fears of Trump's domestic policies
in order to sabotage the possibility of a relaxation of international
tensions. Leftists that think they can exploit the split between the Trump
troglodytes (fascists) and the Obama/Clinton/Old Line GOP War Party
(fascists) will ultimately wind up caught in a pincer between the two.
The ruling class is, indeed, in an acute political crisis, to match its
larger, systemic crisis. The duopoly system that has served the rich so well
for most of the history of the Republic has come undone, split at the seams,
endangering the corporate-imposed national "consensus" on empire and war.
The War Party, deploying every disinformation trick in the book, foments
anti-Russian hysteria to create a mass base for its imperial agenda. They
point fingers at phantom "minions" of Moscow in order to make leftists into
political foot soldiers of the Pentagon, Langley and the military industrial
complex. MoveOn.org moves to their beat, as does the entire Congressional
Black Caucus, including Barbara Lee (D-CA), the nation's most left-leaning
congressperson. Fine; they are duty-bound to go down with the Bad Ship
Hillary. But the social movement activists that allow themselves to be swept
up in the Democrats' offensive-from-the-Right against Trump are the biggest
dupes of all.
"They point fingers at phantom 'minions' of Moscow in order to make leftists
into political foot soldiers of the Pentagon, Langley and the military
industrial complex."
The Democrats are incapable of agitating for anything more than defense of
Barack Obama's "legacy" - chiefly, his doomed Affordable Care Act, which was
already disintegrating from its own contradictions and whose final demise
will create an acute crisis that cries out for single payer health
insurance, the outcome Obamacare was designed to forestall. The Left should
be making that demand right now, rather than helping Democrats join with
Republicans to patch together an even worse private-based system, down the
road.
The precariat economy that is emerging from Obama's post-Meltdown
restructuring, in which 94 percent of the new "jobs" are so contingent,
inadequate and insecure they can hardly be called jobs at all, demands a
National Minimum Income - a potentially transformative leap that the Left
should be loudly championing, right now.
Five years after Occupy Wall Street, the Left should finally call for the
nationalization - not fragmentation - of the big banks, and creation of a
public development bank to rebuild the national infrastructure without going
into debt to private capital. Anybody that doubts masses of people will join
in this demand doesn't know their fellow Americans and their deep hatred for
Wall Street banks.
"The social movement activists that allow themselves to be swept up in the
Democrats' offensive-from-the-Right against Trump are the biggest dupes of
all."
Ferguson set the new Black movement on a course of confrontation with the
Mass Black Incarceration State, in all its manifestations. Obama's legacy -
and that of the Black misleadership class that has collaborated with mass
Black incarceration for two generations - is to intensify intelligence
gathering in Black communities, while dispersing Black population
concentrations through gentrification. Trump or no Trump, there is no
avoiding the logic of the movement's central grassroots demand: Black
community control of the police. Non-Blacks on the Left must support that
demand.
There is no such thing as a genuine Left that supports imperialism, but
there are plenty of fakers that do, including phony socialists. How sad -
and maddening, at the same time - that a Donald Trump can speak of "cutting
down" on "regime change," while purported leftists rally to Obama's
"humanitarian" military interventionism, the lip-stick on the imperial pig.
The Democrats want war so badly, they are fouling their bourgeois
institutional nest and bearing down hard from the Right to prevent any
let-up in tensions with Russia and China. The Left's job is to oppose the
warmongers, not to band with them.
There is no mystery to what the moment demands. What's needed is Left
movements for social transformation, not a farcical, Democrat-led anti-Trump
pseudo-movement, whose real agenda is war.
