[Marxism] Sick to death of Oba-mania

[S. Artesian]

Let's sum up:

1.A white man fucks things up so bad for 8 years that the US electorate 
selects a different package presented, and funded, by the same class of 
goons, thugs, thieves, murderers that presented and funded that white guy 
who fucked things up.

2. The new guy is African-American, literally, 50-50.  He is not an idiot. 
He is not snide.  He can actually put words together into sentences, and, a 
minor note, I'm sure, as the economy gets worse and worse, TNG's popularity 
grows more and more.  He also has an intelligent and great-looking wife, 2 
sparkling daughters-- great assets in the popularity contest business.

3. The African-American voters, the Latino voters, almost 45% of the white 
voters elect the new package. Enormous relief, and pride, is felt upon 
election and inauguration.

4. Relief and pride are not a social movement.  Voting for an 
African-American to administer the terms of accumulation is not a movement. 
Singing "Oh Happy Day" or "This Land Is Your Land" while wrapped in a US 
flag is not a movement.  As a matter of fact, the package and the election 
are ways to pre-empt the movement.

5.  What's changed for Marxists, other than face, the color, the diction? 
Has the war in Iraq changed?   Afghanistan?   The terms of the auto bailout, 
have they changed?  Housing starts, have they recovered?  Will they? 
Layoffs, pension fund busts, bankruptcies... etc. has any of that changed? 
Now I know all of that pales before the prospects that TNG will ease 
restrictions on travel to Cuba-- I know everything pales in comparison to 
Cuba, to what Fidel believes, or what others believe Fidel believes, but 
except for what Fidel believes, what's changed?

6.  Lee Atwalter Lippmann's outbursts to the contrary notwithstanding, 
those who find little movement in the swirling applause for Obama are not 
engaged in any "sectarian" "war," but are maintaining a class analysis of 
what has happened, what is happening, and what can happen.

7.  If those who find hope for change, movement, in this empty whirlwind 
around Obama could provide one shred of analysis linking their hope, their 
calls for engaging "the people" to something concrete, there might be 
something to discuss.  As it stands now, all they provide is magical 
thinking--  I wish there is a movement.  I wish the movement is manifest 
around TNG, therefore there is a movement.

8. Re:  Lee Atwalter Lippmann--  I think it's absolutely priceless that the 
editor-in-chief of the CubaNews uses a nom-de-guerre based on one Elvis 
Presley, a man who stole everything he did from African-Americans without 
providing an iota of credit.   Word.