OWS AGAIN
AS LONG AS THE WORKING CLASS DOES NOT IMPOSE ITS OWN SOLUTIONS, THE CAPITALIST CLASS WILL CONTINUE TO IMPOSE ITS OWN - CONTINUING TO KILL US ALL AND AT A SWIFTER RATE.
The are but three classes under afterhours capitalism: (1) a tiny, venal capitalist class intent on extracting profit whenever and wherever it may the world around; (2) an ever-recreated "middle class," made out of small business owners of all sorts, gangsters and racketeers everywhere, of course cops and private security combines, professionals of all sorts, and bureaucrats of the State, capitalist enterprises, and the so-called opposition; and then there is (3) the atomized working class, those with no power over their own lives whether fully conscious of it or not, but alone possessing the potential power to bring it all down.
We have let these recent confrontations be termed fights to save the so-called middle class. The working class, true object of the attacks, has been allowed to be "disappeared," a la South America thirty years ago. And the trade union bureaucrats - dwindling brokers of labor power - are complicit in this; just look at the leaflets or listen, if you can bear, to the speeches of their truly middle-class officers and staff.
Rest assured, this is not a final crisis for the capitalists unless we collectively make it so. The class origins of those out here demonstrating against the banks and corporations matter little unless and until they align themselves with a working-class program that calls for the immediate end of capitalist relations here and worldwide albeit in a transitional way - we shall need growing elements of the middle class such the growing numbers of small farmers growing healthy food for the foreseeable future, likewise healthcare professionals not in the thrall of Big Pharma, willing to fight global obesity and myriad other diseases caused by capitalism. And we will need educational professionals dedicated to keeping literacy alive. Such a transition must guard against measures which might allow for retrogressive slippage and must support all movements anywhere likewise demanding richer lives beyond value.
And if we begin to win, even in small sectors - hardly a safe assumption-- we need to start living life better collectively, and not in the "future," but right now. There will be sacrifices, even deaths ... but we must not sanctify them. We must get through to lives beyond capital as soon as possible.
The struggle will be more violent than many of us might hope - as it has been each time the working class has contested capital's advances over the past two-hundred-plus years. The capitalist class will not relinquish its power short of what amounts to genocide, region by region, reducing wage-labor to slave-labor. once again. The unstable middle class will split asunder; most shall become stormtroopers for their capitalist rulers as the cops and Tea Party cretins already are, and a minority will think they alone can lead the working class to victory, given what they assume to be their superior knowledges(s) or organizational skills. Stuff and nonsense....nothing other than a choice between pathologies.
The are but three classes under afterhours capitalism: (1) a tiny, venal capitalist class intent on extracting profit whenever and wherever it may the world around; (2) an ever-recreated "middle class," made out of small business owners of all sorts, gangsters and racketeers everywhere, of course cops and private security combines, professionals of all sorts, and bureaucrats of the State, capitalist enterprises, and the so-called opposition; and then there is (3) the atomized working class, those with no power over their own lives whether fully conscious of it or not, but alone possessing the potential power to bring it all down.
We have let these recent confrontations be termed fights to save the so-called middle class. The working class, true object of the attacks, has been allowed to be "disappeared," a la South America thirty years ago. And the trade union bureaucrats - dwindling brokers of labor power - are complicit in this; just look at the leaflets or listen, if you can bear, to the speeches of their truly middle-class officers and staff.
Rest assured, this is not a final crisis for the capitalists unless we collectively make it so. The class origins of those out here demonstrating against the banks and corporations matter little unless and until they align themselves with a working-class program that calls for the immediate end of capitalist relations here and worldwide albeit in a transitional way - we shall need growing elements of the middle class such the growing numbers of small farmers growing healthy food for the foreseeable future, likewise healthcare professionals not in the thrall of Big Pharma, willing to fight global obesity and myriad other diseases caused by capitalism. And we will need educational professionals dedicated to keeping literacy alive. Such a transition must guard against measures which might allow for retrogressive slippage and must support all movements anywhere likewise demanding richer lives beyond value.
And if we begin to win, even in small sectors - hardly a safe assumption-- we need to start living life better collectively, and not in the "future," but right now. There will be sacrifices, even deaths ... but we must not sanctify them. We must get through to lives beyond capital as soon as possible.
The struggle will be more violent than many of us might hope - as it has been each time the working class has contested capital's advances over the past two-hundred-plus years. The capitalist class will not relinquish its power short of what amounts to genocide, region by region, reducing wage-labor to slave-labor. once again. The unstable middle class will split asunder; most shall become stormtroopers for their capitalist rulers as the cops and Tea Party cretins already are, and a minority will think they alone can lead the working class to victory, given what they assume to be their superior knowledges(s) or organizational skills. Stuff and nonsense....nothing other than a choice between pathologies.
It is these middle-class idiots who staff the ever-dwindling and continually compromising unions who are only capable of a "trade union consciousness." This is their ace in the capitalist whole,The working class alone can end capitalism and thus all class society.
R. Ryder
October 2-3, 2011
R. Ryder
October 2-3, 2011
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