(Nota de Luminoso Futuro: Por estar en gira nuestro traductor oficial nos hemos visto forzados presentar a los camaradas y visitantes este importante documento, el que nos han hecho llegar los camaradas estadounidense, en su idioma original. Nos excusamos).
The 2012 U.S.
Election Results: The U.S. Empire Wins and We Lose
-Statement of the Revolutionary Organization of Labor,
USA.
November 10, 2012-
The results are
now in on the 2012 U.S. Election. Imperialist apologist George Will accurately
summed it up, as follows: “A nation vocally disgusted with the status quo has
reinforced it by ratifying existing control of the executive branch and both
halves of the legislative branch.” (“And the winner is: The status quo,” Washington
Post, 11-7-12)
Will pointed out
that the voters are worse off than they were when Obama entered office, they
have less net worth, they have less income and official unemployment has been
more than eight percent in forty-three months under Obama, more months than the
total under all eleven previous presidents over the past sixty years combined.
“Yet voters preferred the president who presided over this to a Republican who
…made his economic expertise his presidential credential,” said Will. (Will
could have added many other seemingly contradictory facts, including: that
Obama beat Romney, the supposed candidate of the rich, in eight of the ten
wealthiest counties in the USA, and that, compared to his 2008 election contest
with John McCain, there was a sharp increase in Obama’s share
of the important Latino vote which climbed to 70% against Romney, despite the
fact that the Obama Regime more than doubled the deportations of Latino immigrants
from the Bush years!) Will points out, compellingly, that the voters in this
same election “ratified Republican control of the House, keeping in place those
excoriated as obstructionists by the president the voters retained.”(ibid)
Will, the reactionary,
appears baffled by the seeming contradictions in the 2012 voters
decision—making. This is because he, like all the U.S. imperialist-sponsored
pundits, frames the political scene in the USA as a “battle” between the
Republicans and Democrats.
These election
results become quite understandable, however, when we take into account two
important facts: First, political rule on behalf of Wall Street finance
capital, the ruling class of the USA, is carried out by the “Republicrats.” The
Democratic and Republican Parties (some tea party forces excluded) operate, they
fight and cooperate, as a dialectically intertwined single force in defense
of the U.S. Empire at home and abroad. The clearest indication of this fact in
the 2012 campaign was the content of the third televised presidential debate
between Obama and Romney in which their political unity on virtually every
foreign policy issue regarding war and diplomacy, and the strategic military
and economic interests of U.S. imperialism was unmistakable.
Secondly, this
was the first U.S. election conducted during the Citizens United era
of unlimited, untraceable corporate cash. A whopping six billion dollars was
spent, mostly by Corporate America and Wall Street finance capital, the U.S.
monopoly capitalist and imperialist ruling class. And they got what
they paid for. For there was no political fall-out, no sweeping out of
either the incumbent Congress, with its record low popularity, or the incumbent
president, presiding over the ongoing economic crisis plaguing the 99%, because
of their “Republicrat” bail-outs of Wall Street, their failure to provide any
relief for Main Street, and their ongoing efforts to increase their austerity
measures aimed against the 99% of us, and especially against the U.S. working
class and oppressed nationalities. Watch out for the “fiscal cliff”
negotiations and revival and implementation of Obama’s bi-partisan (i.e.
Republicrat) Simpson-Bowles Commission austerity planrecommendations
in 2013!
From these
election results it should be crystal clear that New Jersey’s Larry Hamm,
leader of Peoples Organization for Progress (POP), had it right when he said
six months ago, “The most important day of the 2012 election season will be the
day after the election. We’ll need to be out in the streets demanding decent
jobs and homes, etc. …” On the eve of the 2012 election, brother Hamm and POP
announced: “On November 13thwe will march to demand a national jobs
program, a moratorium on home foreclosures, universal health care for all, an
end to student debt, and the immediate return of all U.S. troops from Iraq and
Afghanistan.” According to brother Hamm, the November 13th New
Jersey demonstration will make a call for a National March for Jobs in
Washington, DC.
Across the USA,
we should follow the good example of New Jersey POP in the days ahead as well
as respond to their call. Mass protest actions against the “Republicrat”
austerity measures through which the Wall Street finance capitalists
want to permanently place the burden of their capitalist economic crisis on the
shoulders of the workers and oppressed nationalities of the USA are
vital to our survival.
---- But they are not sufficient. Short run resistance to the monopoly capitalist and imperialist offensive, to its unrelenting effort to place and keep the burden of the world-wide capitalist economic crisis on the shoulders of the workers and oppressed, can only be effective when it is dialectically interconnected with the long run aim of socialist revolution. We need only recall the rich revolutionary experience of the workers throughout the USA and the world during the 1930’s and the last great capitalist economic depression to recognize this truth. On this 95th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia let us reclaim the marvelous legacy of the Soviet Union that grew, flourished and prospered while surrounded by a hostile capitalist world engulfed in and paralyzed by the economic crisis in the Great Depression, the Soviet Union whose legendary heroism played the decisive role in the defeat of fascism in World War II. For this Soviet legacy contains the path forward for the working people of the USA and the world out of the jungle of capitalist enslavement.
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