[Marxism] Obama gets rave reviews

[Gary MacLennan]

Well the whores of the ruling class have shown their hand.  What though
about the workers?  Will they do a second take and realise that Emperor
Obama is like stark naked and that his new clothes [change we can believe
in] are just so much spin?

Part of me thinks it will take a while.  Not because Obama will be anything
other than a Democratic President, but because of the deep instinct towards
loyalty of the working class.  Also because no one wants to drink deep of
the bitter wine of disappointed great hopes and high expectations in ruins.

Another part of me recognizes though the necessity of disllusionment.  The
False Messiah must be exposed and that is a journey the working class will
have to undergo for themselves. What may be of interest to those who
characterize me as a terminal depressive is that I am convinced the working
class are capable of seeing thru Obama and what he truly means with his
calls for "unity and sacrifice".

And when they do, that will take us into a political crisis where
chronological and political time decouple and then we will have the "real
state of emergency" that Walter Benjamin spoke about. It is our task to do
everything we can to bring about that state of emergency and posts like
Lou's, which tend to expose Obama for what he is,  help to do this.
Everything else seems to me to serve the cause of the powerful.

comradely regards

Gary