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III 

The collapse of the political middle  means the collapse of all the primary 
institutions of political mediation  between classes as these institutions 
can no  longer stabilized the  political and production relations between 
all the classes  in bourgeois  society, post 1980. As these institutions 
expressing real material   relations of production collapse, the specific 
ideology articulating this  old  material relations collapse. What come to the fore 
is the external  collisions of  classes seeking to impose their political 
will on society,  as these  intermingling classes seek a new ideological form 
of expression.  

The reason the political middle collapse is due to revolution in the  
productive forces. The middle - economically and politically, is to be  
understood as a historically specific class configuration in its characteristic  
during the industrial era. The collapse of the American automotive industry -  
General Motors and Chrysler, means the collapse of the pivot of the economic  
middle, but very few communists have pondered the  serious historical  
implication of this collapse. 

Something has changed in our society that  makes it increasingly hard to be 
anti-communist and democratic at the same time.  Communists are going to 
have to  be bold in explaining and educating our  workers about the specific 
nature of  capitalism and cannot rest contend  with ideological 
proclamations. Why is the  system collapsing? What is the  role of government? How should 
our society be  organized specifically?  

For instance, a huge statewide struggle and discussion is underway  
concerning the role of government. The American workers do not understand that  
government can literally give working people money without incurring debt. When 
 government issues or distribute currency it is extending credit not 
creating  debt. While government cannot on its own create specie money, it most 
certainly  can and does create fiat money - currency proper. 

The debate over the  national debt is a capitalist debate justifying the 
system of exploitation.  Government debt is created because government chooses 
to enter agreement with  private  financial corporations and borrows money 
from them. Government  does not need to borrow currency to distribute this 
money to the needy. All  government has to do is print money or extend 
credit. Government prints currency  and has no need to borrow  from anyone. 
Governments borrow from private  lenders to create profits for these  
corporations. It is not as if these  financial institutions print currency and  hold the 
money supply hostage.  If our workers do not understand this relationship, 
they will feel they are  working against themselves and end up siding with 
our enemies. 

Here the  problem is that many comrades think in concepts riveted to 
bourgeois political  economy. 

Communism as an economic system is the natural outcome of the  striving of 
American workers as they are compelled to secure socially necessary  means 
of life in a new era. Economic communism for American workers does not  mean 
political Sovietism or Soviet industrial socialism, Stalinism, European  
socialism, European social democracy; French or Sweden socialism or innumerable 
 variants of agricultural communes and workers cooperatives. 

American  communism is going to be and must be the securing of socially 
necessary means of  life in a new way, as this new way expresses the American 
experience. Rather  than create more irresolvable problems, American 
communism is  going to  solve the fundamental economic problems in American life. 
One thing and   one thing only stand in our way: the thinking of the American 
people, as  they  strive to make sense of what is happening in our society.  

Once we teach the workers how and why they must stop thinking like  little 
capitalists, the solution to our economic problems is going to be obvious  
and  simple. 

The art, act and era of teaching the workers to think  in a new way is the 
meaning of fighting and defeating the political middle.  

IV. 

We don't fight just any battle. We fight along the line of  march. The laws 
of capitalism make it inevitable that the means of production  will reach a 
point  where they can no longer be managed by private concerns  alone. At a 
certain  point, the partial recognition of the socialized  character of the 
productive  forces is forced upon the capitalists  themselves. The 
bourgeoisie is forced to  nationalize in its efforts to  protect the capitalist 
system, while at the same  time it must lay the  foundation for a new social 
order based on private property  without  capitalism. They too, like all ruling 
classes before them, must remold   themselves to the emerging economy. They 
are fighting over how to accomplish  the  magnitude of all the tasks before 
them, but they cannot escape that  these tasks  must be done. 

The fact is that destruction of the  economic, social and political 
"middle" is a necessary and progressive thing.  Without such destruction, there is 
no  polarization, without polarization  there is no struggle, and without 
struggle  there is no transformation.  Once polarization begins, 
revolutionaries do not  attempt to hold it back,  but work in such a way as to throw 
their blow at the  middle. In this way,  they assist in breaking the process 
free of its confines,  making  transformation possible. 

The election of Obama was a historical thing  taking place under new 
conditions where class struggles morph into class  antagonism. It is now becoming 
clear to the advanced workers that in order to  free themselves from the 
political clutches of their enemy they will have to  stop "fighting the right" 
and throw their blow at the middle, the Democratic  Party.  It should be 
clear to all, that it is this political middle, the  Democratic Party, which 
ties  the workers to their enemy and makes them  politically impotent. More 
importantly, the destruction of the political and  ideological middle is 
indispensable to polarization and transformation.   Without this  destruction, 
they remained tied by a thousand threads to the  "right" and are  incapable of 
fighting them. How can the advanced fighting  workers escape the  "far 
right" when they believe and still think like  little bitty capitalists,  
clinging to ideas that government cannot create  money and we have to rely upon  
private corporations for our economic well  being? 

Those who believe we can change the course of history by getting  more 
people to work inside the Democratic Party and force it to the "Left" are  
telling us that they believe that we can create our history without conforming  
to or recognizing any laws or conditions that govern the process of change  
and  development.  They are telling us that history is "just one  damned 
thing after another" and there is no such thing as causality or logic of  
history. While economic logic is different from political logic, both are  
connected and  exist in relationship to one another. Political changes and  
impulses generally  lag behind economic changes, with the former dependent  on the 
latter as a  general rule. Things have changed in the political  sphere in 
the past 6 months.  A huge discussion about the life of our  country is 
taking place unlike anything  any of us have experienced in the  past 30 years. 
Events are moving at a  breathtaking pace. 

This past  presidential election is teaching a huge section of voting 
America about the  nature of our political system. Lessons are being learnt we 
communists could not  have taught in 30 years and they are being learnt in the 
space of months and  weeks. The problem is that we do not know how to take 
advantage of the learning  curve of the workers. Fighting the middle 
involves more than throwing  ideological bricks at the Democratic Party or 
proclaiming the  CPUSA is  social democratic, which it is. Sure, those attacking the 
broad left  for  being "ultra leftist" because they do not support the 
Obama administration   should be challenged and politically defeated. Defeating 
these social  democrats,  who wholeheartedly support escalation of American 
wars on two  fronts is a simple  matter. 

The real job is educating the workers  with nationwide communist literature 
and propaganda. Not abstract propaganda  about an abstract capitalism. 
Rather,  thoughtful propaganda about why  trillions of dollars are being poured 
into bad  debt have to be written  from the standpoint of the value 
relation. Government  does not create debt  by extending credit - money, to the 
working class and we  can win the  workers to this point of view if we explain 
things in simple  terms.  


WL.  

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