[Marxism] 90 years later, Rosa Luxemburg (2)

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90 years later, Rosa  Luxemburg's - old era/new era (2) 
 
II. 
 
American financial imperialism entered into political antagonism with  
German expansionism, as the external collision of two different forms of  
capitalist imperialism and different form of the political state. American  
financial imperialism expressed the domination of banking capital over  industrial 
capital (financial imperialism), as this capital sought areas of  foreign 
investment distinct from the securing of colonial possessions for the  export 
of commodities. A system of export of commodities, as distinct from the  
export of finance capital properly belongs to a period of mercantile  
imperialism or the direct colonial relationship. This social  relation appears as a 
political relations where the colonized are  interlocked with the state of 
the colonizer. The closed colonial system with its  protective tariffs, 
species money relation and garrison state structure  impeded the penetration of 
American finance capital. From the American stand  point war with the German 
state became the inevitable social consequence  and form of inter-imperial 
riviraly. In other words American imperialism  had financial interest in 
Europe tied to oil, bonds, financial  instruments and a material/political 
interest in destroying the closed  colonial system. 
 
Proclaiming its existence purpose the destruction of Soviet Power and the  
destruction of the society impulse for economic communism throughout Europe, 
 the  German state attacked its domestic communists and proclaimed its  
military purpose to crush the citadel of ideological communism and  socialist 
property  relations, the Soviet Union. In directly German fascism  proclaimed 
its goal recreation of the closed colonial system. Two very different  
political states and economic  system found unity of identity in halting  and 
destroying German expansionism.  
 
The American, United Kingdom and Soviet governments entered a period of  
mutual  identity of interest based on military defeat of the German state  by 
the former  and military destruction of the German state and physical  
annihilation of  political fascism by the latter. 
 
In the bourgeois ideological sphere, the military battle against German  
imperialism was waged under the banner of the politics of  
"anti-fascism/anticommunist democracy," or in the American lexicon, "no  fascism,  no 
communism, no Stalinism, only American capitalist democracy,"  or "the  American Way 
of Life." The Soviet government correctly ignored the  American  ideology 
and proceeded to inflict upon the German state a most  catastrophic  defeat. 
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The economic platform of  "anti-fascism/anticommunist democrat"  was 
finance capital. It’s specific  class/social basis was crystallized in the 
stability of what Marxist refer to as  the "economic/political middle" in the 
countries at the front of the curve of  industrial/capital development. 
 
The political middle is an economic formation. The rise of the economic  
middle or the American middle class is tied to the rise of the industrial  
system. Every person in America and the world remotely familiar with American  
history has been taught that the "great American middle class" owes its  
origin  to Henry Ford Sr. and the growth of the auto industry. This is  true. 
Moreover,  for eighty years the economic stability of the middle  class as 
pivoted in  automotive production and its conversion into military  production 
during WW II.  The modern social democratic foot soldiers of the  political 
middle, in their  ignorant demand for reindustrializing America  and 
returning "our jobs" to "our  country," as solution to this stage of  crisis of 
capital, seek to reestablish  the economic middle and politically  intersect 
with and become part of the  growing fascist onslaught against  American 
society as a whole. These foot  soldiers can claim ignorance, but  not their 
leaders who fully understand the  character and nature of their  political 
projection. 
 
During the post WW II expansion of the economic middle the  
"anti-fascist/anticommunist" democrats expanded  voice of the left bench of  financial 
imperialism or the political middle. Anti-fascism/anti-communism  emerged as the 
most important ideological weapon of imperialism during the Cold  War. One 
of the ideological centers symbolizing the new progressive political  middle 
was the Nation magazine, which dubbed itself "anti-anti-communism,"  
meaning in the American context, against the historic American fascist  political 
current that existed as a complex mesh of white  chauvinism and  
anti-communism + anti-Soveitism. 
 
Political fascism and its meaning for today is not an academic discussion  
but related to the politics of our new era: the era of Obama. The decay of  
the  historical/economic/political phenomenon called the  
anti-fascist/anti-communist  bourgeois democrat (the political middle) has  emerged as a 
salient political  feature that constitutes an important, if  not the most 
important, political  (class) aspect of the era of Obama. 
 
The anti-fascist/anti-communist bourgeois democrat exists on the same  
political continuum that is the decay of the peculiar phenomenon of the black  
leader in the post-post Jim Crow period.  The anti-fascist/anti-communist  
bourgeois democrat and the peculiar phenomenon of the black leader merged with 
 and become part of the post WW II institutional relations that is the  
economic/political formation called the political middle. 
 
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. 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. Communist 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? 
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