Carl,
In case you haven't noticed, the "working class", as you choose to call
everyone who isn't a member of the power elites, is divided by strongly held
beliefs and prejudices, by education, experience, income level, ethnic, racial,
and cultural backgrounds. If you were a young leftist, active on twitter, or
listened to some of the leftwing podcasts on which the people talk about issues
and what's going on, you'd discover how truly divided and paranoid the Left is,
how so much of the discussion about issues becomes personal and sort of
gossipy. There isn't any "us". It kind of reminds me of the politics of the
blindness organizations, only even more so.
Miriam
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If we remember only one thing from this article, it is: "...But there is no
“us. The spy agencies he applauds serve the propertied rulers against the
working class."
We, the working class People do not have an FBI or our own CIA. We have no
state militia, no National Guard, no Police or company Bully Boys. All we have
are Numbers. And Guts. And Determination. And when we are pushed against the
wall, as our Greed driven Corporate Bosses must do to us, we will start pushing
back, shouting "Enough is enough!"
Carl Jarvis
On 3/1/18, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2018/8209/820903.htmlIf we remember only one thing from this article, it is: But there is no “us.”
The Militant (logo)
Vol. 82/No. 9 March 5, 2018
(front page)
Liberals hail FBI witch hunt against Trump
White House
BY TERRY EVANS
Liberals are singing the praises of the U.S. political police after
former FBI boss Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian individuals and
three Russian organizations for conspiracy to “defraud the United
States” by interfering in politics here.
The Feb. 16 indictments accuse the 13 Russians of participating in a
so-called troll operation on the internet beginning in 2014, inventing
U.S. identities, promoting a variety of political views to roil
viewers and staging rallies related to the 2016 campaign. They make no
allegation that Donald Trump’s campaign was involved in any way, and
they say there is no evidence this operation affected the election
outcome. Those charged worked for a company with close ties to the
Kremlin, Mueller claims. The evidence marshaled is similar to previous
press reports, including a 2015 New York Times magazine piece called
“The Agency.”
“Our FBI, CIA, NSA [National Security Agency], working with the
special counsel [Mueller], have done us amazingly proud,” columnist
Thomas Friedman gushes in the Times Feb. 18. But there is no “us.”
The spy agencies he applauds serve the propertied rulers against the
working class. The FBI is tasked by the bosses to spy on, disrupt and
frame up working-class militants, Black rights and Puerto Rican
independence fighters, and opponents of Washington’s wars. Examples
include framing up leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and the
Teamsters union in Minneapolis for speaking out against the rulers’
drive to enter the second imperialist world war to decades of
Cointelpro attacks on the party and other political groups.
Like all the rulers’ frame-up grand juries and special prosecutors,
Mueller’s probe against the Trump presidency starts with a target and
then roots around for evidence. The charge that those indicted
conspired to “defraud the U.S.” is so broad it could be used to target
almost anyone for anything. Such laws are written that way to make it
easy for the cops and spy agencies to use them to go after working-class
fighters.
The liberals and middle-class left are determined to criminalize their
political differences with Trump to drive him out of office. Democrats
lined up in a frenzy to claim Mueller had found the “smoking gun”
against him. It went so far that Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler from New
York told MSNBC he thought Moscow’s interference in the election was
the equivalent of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — the pretext
used by Washington that it had been preparing for years to enter World War II.
Underlying the liberals’ refusal to reconcile themselves to Trump’s
election is their scorn for the workers who elected him. In a Feb. 20
op-ed entitled “The Madness of American Crowds,” New York Times
columnist Roger Cohen claimed that working people are “dumb” and “can
be led by the nose into the gutter,” and were “easily manipulated” to
elect Trump.
In reality millions of workers, including many who had voted for
Barack Obama in previous elections, were angry over the blows
inflicted on them from capitalism’s political and moral crisis and looking
for a change.
They voted for Trump hoping he would do something and “drain the swamp”
in Washington. But Trump, like his predecessors from both parties,
governs to defend the interests of the propertied owners.
SWP members campaigning in working-class neighborhoods find widespread
interest in discussing how the rulers foist the costs of today’s wars
and social crises onto the backs of working people and what this says
about the values of their system. Many workers want to discuss how
past struggles — like the Cuban Revolution and the mighty movement
that overthrew Jim Crow segregation — show we can organize
independently of the bosses, and through revolutionary struggle
develop the capacities to replace capitalist rule with workers power.
Such capabilities are completely discounted by those like Cohen who
think that workers need to be “learned” on what to do by meritocrats
like himself.
The alleged activities of the Internet Research Agency and its
manager, Yevgeny Prigozhin, itemized in the indictment, are a litany
of internet misinformation on a wide variety of political issues.
But the scale of the meddling in the 2016 elections by Moscow pales in
comparison to that engineered over decades by the U.S. rulers. They
have utilized their spy agencies — that liberals are falling over
themselves to shower with plaudits — to not only “affect” elections,
but to brutally overturn governments.
This includes the CIA-organized coup that overthrew the Iranian
government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and replaced him with
the shah in 1953, establishing a key prop in U.S. domination across
the Middle East that lasted for 25 years. The U.S. rulers tried to
prevent the election of Salvador Allende as president of Chile, and,
when they failed, backed the 1973 coup by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that
overthrew his government. The list goes on and on.
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