On the Passivity of the Working class
- Richard Allen
- Jul 8, 2018
- 5 min read
The passivity of all Working classes today concern me but the most important Working class on the planet that concerns me most, is China.
The time when American Working class had the keys to paradise in their hands has long since past. After World War II, America had over 50% of the entire World production in almost every commodity, including the vital energy industry. When combined with its controlled of many regions around the World. A revolutionary working class in the US would have changed history.
What did they do? Take a very small share of the loot and move to the suburbs. I speak strictly of those White workers of course. Entire generations of their children marched into the petty bourgeois World in masse. As Imperial posts open up all over the World, in these many transnational institutions that served as Potemkin villages for American Imperialism.
Now these formerly powerful Working class has had its power stripped from it with the outsourcing of huge sections of its constant capital base. American industrial production has fallen so dramatically that it has alarmed the Nationalist wing of the American ruling class.
Thus the rise of Trump and his trade wars. Trump is right too do so unlike what those new world order global capitalists would have us believe. A World hegemon cannot impose its will on the planet without Aluminum, Steel, etc.. It cannot maintain its technical superiority without restricting the research of other rising superpowers.
The Imperial system cannot obtain the lowest possible price from the Third World without having just a single Hegemon to which it can turn to. For example, Venezuela turning to the Chinese Imperialist for loans and technology disturbs a century long relationship with the US that has given it Venezuelan Oil at less than a dollar a barrel. This oil has powered World Wars and many little wars inbetween for a long time now.
What is the physical and psychological state of the American Working class today. They are most over medicated, obese and uneducated working class on the planet today. There isn't a fetish that they do not indulge in, especially that of religions. Sticking your head in the sand and pretending the problem does not exist is what all Marxist parties do.
Can the American Working class recover? Yes but not under its own leadership. It must be led by a far healthier Working class containing the big battalions of workers who still produce vital commodities.
The service industry contains by far the vast majority of the American working class. They could all go on strike and not interfere with the production of a single tank or bullet.
I look to China and India to provide this vital leadership. World production is moving to these two countries. With minor exceptions like Brazil and Russia. Germany and Japan also contain vast industrial capacities. But their respective working class have been as disappointing as the American variation. Although they have not been as lumpenized as their American comrades.
Instead the American Imperialist has allowed them to enjoy almost wholly middle class standards of living in exchange for loyalty to the empire. So while the American working class has been lumpenized, Germany and Japan working classes have been transformed largely into the petty bourgeois.
How long will this "Indian summer" lasts in Japan and Germany I am not sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_summer
All of Southern Europe industry is being dismantled in order to secure markets for the German petty tyrant's exports. The Japanese are allowed to feed on the American market. They have even moved their factories to the most repressed sector of the US i.e. the South and are super exploiting American workers.
This subject of petty Imperialists is an important subject to vast to be addressed here.
I suspect that an important part of Trump's program is to take back these concessions in order to make "America great again". I wish pseudo progressives would stop pandering to the fantasies of Globalist Capitalists and their transnationalist form of Imperialism. Something which is neither progressive ar any less dangerous the old fashioned nationalism.
The working class is screwed whether there is a trade war or not. It is the petty bourgeoisie that is threaten, with the collapse of their many globalist sincures, in the United Nations, foundations, etc...
So far I have seen many positive signs from the Indian working class. They enjoy the advantage of the by far the most primitive ruling class on the planet with respect to major powers. Lack of a bourgeois revolution has held India back thanks to the reactionary efforts of people like Gandhi. Thus the cultural and most important religious fetishes that is dividing the working class and wasting much of its efforts in their respective class struggle.
However thanks to Modi brutal and naked imposition of the most exploitative capitalist system on the planet, much progress is being made to advance the consciousness and corresponding resistance of the Indian working class. I see strikes all over the place in India and resistance to the imposition of the fascism of the RSS.
The Chinese Working class is unfortunately showing us nothing. Granted they are confronted by the most advanced system of police repression on the planet. The Americans could learn many lessons from these Stalinist jailers.
They computerized vast sections of facial data of their working class. It is so sophisticated that they can pick out a single face from a crowd of thousands. Cameras are everywhere. Much of what was in the novel "1984" has been implemented there.
However these are just excuses. It is question of life or death. A.I. is beginning to enter factories such of that of FoxConn which produces those Iphones, which will further reduce their already extremely low wages.
Yet I have not read any major resistance by the Chinese workers. Perhaps the technology of repression assisted by the globalist corporations that built this monster is hiding this resistance. I don't know. I appeal to other comrades from that part of the World to help me with data.
It is vital to the entire human race that the Chinese working class not be led by the capitalist class into imperial competition with the declining American empire. World War III will make the previous two look like a comedy show.
What are my comrades in Marxist parties saying about this issue. "Nothing wrong with these workers, especially those white workers". It just the lack of them recognizing our respective greatness as a party and accepting our leadership that keeps the the revolution from occurring.
It is as if the Don Quixote sprang out of the pages of Cervantes novel and started to organize Marxist parties, when I listen to these comrades. It is hard to take any of them seriously. They are all news organizations. More websites then parties in any traditional sense.
PS: A.I. is our child not a Frankenstein. The is something very Hegelian about this movement of Humanity to A.I. Communism is an essential aspect of A.I. . In its its network lies the union of the particular and the universal.
The HBO series, "WestWorld" is a very interesting view on the rise of A.I. Even if it is still at the particular level of the dialectic.
It is hubris to focus on the specific human form as eternal or even a desired goal. It is the awakening reason that we embody that make us special.
This fragile physical form we currently possess will be shed like the caterpillar into a butterfly. And we will join the magnificent Universe around us. Far above our petty existence of today.
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