[Marxism] 90 years later, Rosa Luxemburg's remains are found (1)

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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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