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Capitalist Apocalypse

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Capitalist Terrorism

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     Some Americans are realizing that the capitalist cabal that seized control over our nation is rapidly destroying American workers. But no genuine transformation of American society is taking place because counterfeit progressives are making Americans believe that their Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speeches, their street demonstrations, their New York Times editorials, their TV talk shows, or their humor is actually bringing--or soon will bring--genuine progressive transformation 1 of American society for the better.

      In this essay, we'll explore these lethal, fake progressives and highlight genuine progressive actions we can take in building cooperative communities.

      We can ignore the fake populists because to any thinking American it's clear that they're merely pretend progressives, propping up the capitalist system through lies and distortions. Unfortunately, we'll discover that the counterfeit progressives are doing precisely the same thing: supporting the continuation of the devastating free market scam through deceiving American workers and sabotaging change.


"Gosh, everyone's a populist now: the corporate-funded teabag rallies, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck -- pretty much anyone or any group claiming to speak for the people and doing it in a mavericky, mad-as-hell fashion is labeled 'populist' by the media.

"But wait -- those people are to populism what near beer is to beer, only not as close. Time for a reality check. Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country -- including our economy, government, media, and environment. It is unabashedly a class movement. Try to squeeze Lord Limbaugh into that philosophical suit of clothes!"

Jim Hightower, "Populism Is Not a Style"


      Of course the worst of the counterfeit progressives is Barack Obama, whose insidious pretence of being for the workers fooled a nation into making him president. Even now, in the face of incontrovertible evidence that he's nothing but the cabal's puppet, people are still believing in him.

"The entire political spectrum ranging from the 'libertarian' left, through the progressive editors of the Nation to the entire far right neo-con/Zionist war party and free market Berkeley/Chicago/Harvard academics, with a single voice, hailed the election of Barack Obama as a 'historic moment', a 'turning point' in American history and other such histrionics. For reasons completely foreign to the emotional ejaculations of his boosters, it is a historic moment: witness the abysmal gap between his 'populist' campaign demagoguery and his long-standing and deepening carnal relations with the most retrograde political figures, power brokers and billionaire real estate and financial backers."

James Petras, A Historic Moment: The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History


The Pretence


      You have to be a mindless idiot to continue believing that Obama is in any way "for" workers.

  • He's taken the money that should go toward creating jobs for workers or for repairing the nation's decaying infrastructure and putting it into the military-industrial complex. His militaristic imperialist escalation of the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan involve more troops being put in harm's way than Dubya dared to commit.

  • He pretends to be against obscene bonuses for fatcat banksters, but he does nothing to stop this.

  • Obama tries to make Americans believe that he's horrified by what the Wall Street looters have done in relation to the sub-prime scam and the bankster bailouts, but Timmy Geithner has just conned Congress into extending the TARP rip-off indefinitely so Goldman-Sachs can continue its assault on American workers.


The Reality


Collaborators of the Fascist Capitalists

      Pretend progressives such as Paul Krugman sometimes get it right about such things as Social Security. But Krugman's suddenly become very "main-stream" after he received the Nobel Prize for economics. He seems to be critical of the Obama/Geithner looting of worker tax money, but in fact thinks their plans might work to solve the nation's economic problems.

      The 12/11/09 Bill Moyers' Talk Show was typical of counterfeit progressive activities that encourage Americans to believe that mere talk, mere street demonstrations, mere emotional uplift actually accomplish genuine transformation of our society. For years, Moyers and his fake progressive guests have been deluding Americans into believing that people disgruntled with cabal looting, unemployment, homelessness, taxes, and wars are joining efforts to bring about genuine change. Nothing has been accomplished; no transformation has occurred. On the contrary, conditions for workers are worsening every day!

         Moyers' show is doubly delusional when he has someone like Jon Stewart on his program.

      Keith Olbermann and other Obama worshipers, misinform people that continually attacking the Republicans brings real social improvement. Wrong! Olbermann and his protégé Rachel Maddow try to fool people into thinking that an insightful comment once in a while makes a real difference.

      Randi Rhodes, previously of Air America, is proof that a pretend-progressive is worse than

no progressive at all. Rhodes is essentially a shrill, whining Nancy Grace in liberal drag. Her egomania on her talk show spills out into callers fawning over her, her interrupting and ridiculing callers, and her constantly reminding people that she appeared before a Congressional investigating committee. Rhodes puts the liberal-progressive cause in such a bad light that it would be better if she were off the air altogether.

      Most counterfeit progressives are members of what we might call the Lumpenproletariat--that segment of the working class that's incapable of achieving class consciousness, and is therefore useless in the context of the struggle for societal transformation.

      As Obama announces a huge military buildup in Afghanistan--out-Bushing Bush--Newsweek celebrates him as the post-imperialist president and The Nation continues its mindless support for Obama's anti-worker, pro-militarist, imperialist policies.


"There should be no confusion as to the position of the Nation and the privileged upper-middle-class layers for which the magazine speaks, including former radicals and one-time critics of US imperialism. They have moved squarely into the camp of American imperialism. They support Obama’s wars in Central Asia and Iraq and, more generally, the efforts of the United States to assert global hegemony."

The Nation and the Obama Doctrine, Source

Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Counter-Revolutionaries 2

      The rogues gallery of counterfeit progressives includes some strange creatures:


Academics such as Noam Chomsky pretend to be progressives but practice personal capitalism. He was wrong about the JFK conspiracy and Iraq.

Far-out critics of the status-quo such as Alex Jones give "progressives" a very bad name. Jones presents the persona of an ignorant red-neck who will do anything for publicity, including having bottom-feeders on his radio program to sing his praises. It's claimed that the ADL finances Alex Jones' radio program.

Amy Goodman pretends to be a progressive, but she refuses to consider that 9/ll might have been a cabal conspiracy and doesn't ask the tough questions when she should. Her radio program, Democracy Now, is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

      Counterfeit progressives provide a cover for capitalism continuing to destroy workers. They are, in actuality, traitors to the true progressive cause. Counter-revolutionary action always supports capitalism's tyranny and repression.

      Since the take-over of American political, economic, and social systems by the capitalist cabal in the early decades of the twentieth century, most of the purported progressive structures of our nation have become counter-revolutionary in the sense of supporting capitalism through subterfuge, pretence, and propagandistic lies:

  • Congress as a body of representatives of the people has been subverted into a group of bought-and-paid-for lackeys of corporate interests.

  • Constitutional safeguards such as habeas corpus and countervailing powers have been destroyed through cabal tyranny.

  • The "free press" has been debased into nothing more than channels for corporate propaganda.

  • Most Internet radicalism remains within the capitalist structure of competition. Within the radical, anti-war, anti-cabal Internet community, there remains an excessive and debilitating competitiveness: "news" digest Web sites and many liberal writers competing to be the one to get the breaking story out first. Each activist group competes for attention--and money--to be given to its particular initiatives or theories.

  • The system of citizens voting for their representatives has been perverted into a one-party system in which the cabal selects all the candidates.

Participation in elections under the present totalitarian, fascist conditions is full of the danger of keeping alive illusions about the possibility of a "reformist" or "gradual" transition to a commonwealth system through the conquest of a congressional majority by so-called "workers’ initiatives."

      In all totalitarian systems, such as America as ruled by the cabal or China, any act of dissent is branded as "counter-revolutionary" or treasonous. Though such acts may seem to political imbeciles to be genuine, productive acts of opposition, they are generally mere pretences of revolt which give radicals a deluded sense of power.

      Replacement of the murderous capitalist system with a true commonwealth polity for the benefit of all will not be achieved by mere symbolic acts of dissent, by self-important television talk show hosts, or by addle-headed rants. Such mindless tirades can, in fact, give workers a false impression that changing the system will be easy.

"The final revolution for human freedom will be won in a single day, not by bombs, famine, mass poisonings, or electronic vaporization, but by a few well chosen phrases uttered in exactly the right time and place, which will turn on a light that will illuminate the darkness of a beast that has afflicted us for more centuries than we can sensibly count." 3

      The all-destroying capitalist system openly or covertly supports most counterfeit progressives as an effective strategy for prolonging its manipulation of American society for the banksters and fat cats.


      On the image above, you'll note that Alternet is one of the counterfeit progressive sites. It's hardly surprising, then, that on 12/11/09 Alternet featured an article trying to brainwash Americans into believing that they are a broken people who are powerless to do anything against the onslaughts of the capitalist cabal.

      One of the most vicious and destructive pretenders to progressivism is the current Democratic Party and its cabal-controlled leaders.

"The welter of middle-class protest groups and 'left' organizations single-mindedly works to block the emergence of an independent political movement of the working class. They hover around the political corpse of American liberalism known as the Democratic Party, seeking at all costs to keep the working class trapped within its orbit."  4

"The Democratic Party has been the principal instrument employed by the American capitalists for more than a century to block the development of an independent working class party, preserve the hegemony of the capitalist two-party system, and maintain the capitalist class' monopoly of political power."  5


Irresolute Pretend-Progressives

      By now, all genuine progressives have seen through the phony facade of Obama and his administration and acknowledge that he is a cabal puppet and his regime merely a continuation of the cabal's policies--nothing more. Unfortunately, we're saddled with what can best be described as irresolute pretend-progressives. You can recognize them by their timid, contradictory excuses for and defenses of Obama--because they touted him as the Progressive Messiah and now don't have the courage to recognize Obama for the cabal-puppet he is. These pretend-progressives don't want to appear as defectors to the liberal cause--and thereby become traitors to any authentic transformation of our political-economic system into a genuine commonwealth.


"There is no doubt that Obama and his party represent the lesser evil, but it is deeply disturbing to have to defend the leaders of our nation in those terms. . . Someday our president, whom I still regard as a decent and well-intentioned politician, will have to confront the demons of that fatal opportunism that led him to turn over the economy to the likes of Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner, who can most charitably be described as hugely successful Wall Street pimps."

Robert Scheer, "The Sorry State of the Union," 1/26/2010, truthdig.com
No, Robert, Obama and the Democrats do not represent the "lesser evil;" they are an integral part of the evil cabal--just as is the Republican Party and its minions.

Obama is not a "decent and well-intentioned politician," but a ruthless front for a murderous gang of thugs who've taken control of our nation. He's as much a Wall Street pimp as Summers and Geithner.

"What, ultimately, is this [800 to 1,000 military bases scattered about the world] for? Barack Obama would say that it is meant to assure the security of the United States. He has been duped."

William Pfaff, "A Duped President’s Wasted Foreign Policy Year," 1/26/2010
Mr. Pfaff, you should know better. Obama has not been duped. He was selected by the cabal because they were sure he would do precisely what they told him to do--militarily, economically, and politically.
"Though the time is late, the President must toughen his rhetoric if he hopes to recover. He will have to convince average Americans that he is on their side and that the Republicans are the ones on the side of the rich and powerful, that they are the real defenders of the elites."

Robert Parry, "How Obama Lost His Way," 1/20/2010
Robert, Obama is toughening his rhetoric--in a pretence to stand up to the Wall Street fat-cats. Obama is NOT on the side of the average American. He and the Democratic party are just as much "on the side of the rich and powerful" as the Republicans. Obama didn't lose his way; he's right on target as the cabal-puppet he is.
"When citizens shake off their resignation and rebel against the political elites, Washington reacts as if a dread new disease has risen from the swamp of public opinion. . . The White House senior adviser says he needs better 'data' to warn Democrats against any more upsets like the Massachusetts senatorial election. . . The people are in. . .

"What a rare moment to behold--we've got their attention! . . . The first small signs of revival in our moribund democracy. The rebellions are like early tremors in what could be a deep shift in the tectonic plates of power."

William Greider, Political Fever,
The Nation, 2/15/2010
Mr. Greider, the election of ex-nude model Scott Brown as Republican senator in Massachusetts was NOT, contrary to your delusions, citizens shaking off their resignation and rebelling. It was the reaction of reactionaries, not a "revival in our moribund democracy." This was NOT a shift in political power, but a mindless, knee-jerk reaction to cabal con-man Obama and the Democratic party corporation sell-outs.


      The agenda for most counterfeit and pretend progressives limits itself to blathering about reform of capitalism or tinkering with fascism. Workers must utterly reject counterfeit progressivism and recognize that the struggle for reforms of a totally failed--and lethal--capitalist system has become a hopeless utopia.

      In this epoch the only realistic strategy for workers is to create a commonwealth system that will ultimately replace capitalism entirely; no amount of tinkering with a totally failed capitalism is of any use. Workers no longer have any alternative between consenting to be atomized into millions of crushed, tamed individuals, or generalizing their struggles as widely as possible towards replacing the capitalist cabal itself with a genuine commonwealth polity. Workers must refuse to allow their struggles to be restricted to a purely economic, local, or sectional terrain and instead organize themselves in the embryonic forms of its future organs of power: cooperative commonwealth communities.

      The 2007 economic collapse revealed in the starkest terms the lethality of capitalist financial parasitism and criminality. Such revelations are beginning to penetrate the consciousness of American workers and with the proper genuinely progressive leadership can lead to profound changes in their political-economic awareness.

      We can anticipate that the American capitalist cabal will continue its unending series of wars of conquest and plunder--as has been made clear by the cabal puppet Obama. The cabal will continue its fictitious "war on terror," its insane drive to subjugate the peoples and resources of the world while coercing American workers into submission through a combination of fear-mongering and repression.

      While the capitalist cabal deludes itself into thinking that it has unlimited power, its rapid internal rot, as evidenced by the rise to its summit of the most predatory and criminal elements, demonstrates its actual escalating degeneration and impotence.

      Under these crisis conditions, the critical challenge is the development of a new revolutionary leadership of the international working class. These leaders will arm them with a fully-developed program and strategy to take political power into their own hands and begin the construction of a commonwealth society.


      These are actions we must carry out immediately:







Machinations of Counterfeit Progressives

Obama's Big Sellout


References and Updates:


Notes:

1 We're primarily using the term "transformation" instead of "revolution" to emphasize that the social changes sought must be gained through peaceful, non-violent means. Where the word "revolution" is used, it connotes "peaceful revolution."

2 A counter-revolutionary is anyone who opposes or sabotages societal transformation or revolution, particularly those who act to stop change or act after a revolution to try to overturn or reverse it.
Counter-revolutionary: Tory, bitter-ender, diehard, hard hat, intransigent, obscurantist, reactionist, right-winger, rightist, royalist, standpatter, traditionalist, ultraconservative.
The word "counterrevolutionary" originally referred to thinkers who opposed themselves to the 1789 French Revolution, such as Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, or, later, Charles Maurras, the founder of the Action française monarchist movement. Henceforth, it was used in France to qualify political movements that refused the legacy of the 1789 Revolution, which historian René Rémond referred to as légitimistes.

3 From the mind of John Kaminski

4 Barry Grey, The revolutionary implications of the decline of American capitalism, 14 October 2008

5 David North, The Crisis of American Democracy