[Marxism] 90 years later, Rosa Luxemburg's remains are found (1)
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Thu Jun 11 14:00:50 MDT 2009
On Jan. 15, 1919, the communists’ revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl
Liebknecht were captured by political/military thugs of the German state and
murdered. This event serves as a historical marker - nodal point, in the
rise, ebbing and defeat of the revolution and the linking up of the fascist
movement with the German state. The German fascist movement of all
variants openly proclaimed its fundamental goal the destruction of Soviet Power,
the dismantling of the Soviet state, the physical annihilation of the
"Great Russian" people, and anyone else in its march to restore German
greatness based on reconstituting its post WWI colonial possessions. Hitler’s
National Socialist political movement emerged as the victor in the country’s
fascist movement. Appointed chancellor (President) in 1933, Hitler made
good on the promise to restore Germany to greatness, using a fascist form of
the German state to drive German expansionism.
"Fascism emerged and seized power as a revolutionary political resolution
to the problems of societies in the midst of instability and crisis caused
by the transition from an agriculture-based economy and the feudal social
and state structures that served and protected that economy. The early
20th century saw intense political battles in the transition to an industrial
based economy.
In 1920s Germany, for example, the bourgeois democratic Weimar government,
wracked by economic and political crisis, could not contain the
revolutionary motion of both the communist and fascist elements. The communists were
crushed as the ruling class threw its weight to the fascists. The fascist
state tore up the old bourgeois democratic state and created a new German
state that set out to conquer the world.
Many of the debates about and the many inaccurate definitions – such as the
idea that fascism is a middle class movement – serve ruling class
interests by obscuring fascism's true nature. At its core, fascism seeks to
protect private property through the unity of the state and the corporations and
prevent a communist resolution to the crisis faced by society.
Today, fascism is arising under qualitatively different conditions. As the
economy shifts from industrial to electronic production, the economic base
of current bourgeois-democratic state-forms is eroding. We are facing
nothing less than an attempt by the ruling class to wholly reshape the state
and society to adapt to new economic conditions so that they can continue
their rule.
No longer is the "most reactionary, most chauvinist, and most imperialist"
section of the capitalist class the class base of fascism, but the entire
bourgeoisie. The centralization and integration of the leading capitalist
corporations and the global and fundamental nature of the current transition
mean that the owning class shares a common interest in its objective need
for a fascist resolution to this crisis.
Under today's qualitatively new conditions fascism represents the
bourgeoisie's struggle to align the superstructure with the changing nature of
private property relations. Fascism today seeks to facilitate a whole new world
order based on private property without capitalism
(_http://www.lrna.org/2-pt/v19ed2art4.html_
(http://www.lrna.org/2-pt/v19ed2art4.html) )
A new world order of private property without capitalism would seem
impossible but it is not. The old American adage "whatever can happen will" comes
into play. Human agency - the working class, is required to step into the
arena of history change and open a new line of history - make a different
new world possible. The working class can only come into play if the
communists understand what class forces we are dealing with and our line of
march. It is not enough to scream over and over "workers and capitalists."
Two things stand out in the recent reports of the discovery of the body of
Rosa Luxemburg. First the role of social democracy or the historical
"political middle." Second the evolution to a reactionary form of bourgeois
democracy as the immediate gateway for the fascist state. Reactionary
bourgeois democracy is extra judicial terror and violence against the advanced
detachment of the working class. Today, we see this political motion in the
demand by political pundits for the government to take action to suppress
the "far right" - white supremacist, and "far left."
While the terrorist "far right" needs to be suppressed, meaning those who
bomb abortion clinics and the terrorist white supremacists, whom - may one
ask, and what political organization is attacking the "far left" or what
branch of social democracy (the organized political middle) attacks the
"ultra left" in America? Since the election of Obama, the political group to
launch a sustained attack against the "ultra left" and "far right" is the
Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
The American political middle has its own peculiar features different from
Weimar government, German history and European fascism. It is necessary to
reexamine the basis upon which American imperialism entered into military
and political antagonism with the German state.
WL
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