With the streets of Washington empty and taken over
by the Army of NATO and US imperialism…
Biden and the Democratic Party from the
Wall Street pirates have inaugurated
Now it is the turn of the "siren songs" and the "sweet phrases" of political swindlers and collaborationist leaderships…
They seek to disrupt and roll back the struggles
of the working class and black people
On January 6, thousands of white supremacists with baseball bats and Confederate and American flags marched to the Capitol, after a public rally of Trump in which he called them to "fight like hell."
They broke into the Capitol, crossing the police cordon and interrupted the congressional session that was to certify Biden's electoral victory. There were five deaths amidst the runs inside the Capitol, while the representatives and senators fled or hid seeking shelter.
It was an attempt of proto-fascist putsch aimed at forcing Pence and the Republican Party to support Trump's allegation of electoral fraud and not to recognize Biden's victory, in order to force new elections.
A sector of the monopolies and transnationals had refused to leave the state administration. Thus a huge crisis was opened in the heights. Gangs of white supremacists and fascist groups, with the complicity of the police and minority sectors of the establishment, tried to impose their conditions with sticks. This attempt failed. Hours later, with the National Guard stationed on Capitol Hill and the gangs that had taken it dispersed, the congressional session continued and effectively ended up ratifying Biden as the next president.
In the empire there was a huge division in the heights between the bourgeois gangs. But the vast majority of Wall Street, the one that truly defines, resolved that Biden and the Democrats should take office. Even the officer caste, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated “We have witnessed actions within the Capitol building that were inconsistent with the rule of law. The rights of freedom of expression and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection (...) On January 20, 2021, according to the Constitution, confirmed by the states, the courts and certified by Congress, President-elect Biden will assume office and become our 46th commander-in-chief ” (memo to Joint Forces, 1/12/2021).
The fundamental institutions of the imperialist bourgeois state defined who would be their representative for the next period: Biden and the Democrats. A policy that for them has no loss and constitutes a key formula to try and pull out the regime and the bourgeois state from the eye of the hurricane of the uprising of the vast majority of the martyred masses in the United States, with its impoverished working class and millions of unemployed. A policy of "siren songs", deception, cooptation and diversion that has temporarily managed to remove the majority of the masses and the black people from the fierce combat in the streets, with which they began to corner the Trump administration and the whole regime.
Big capital understood that this was not the time to go to direct clashes of civil war with the rebellious masses, when not many months have passed since Trump had to preserve himself in basement #12 of the White House and dozens of police stations were set on fire by the exploited in the streets.
This was not the time to lean against the people in desperate sectors of the middle classes in crisis and bankruptcy, and even in the upper echelons of the white labor aristocracy, stripped of their old rights. That is to say, the US Imperialist financial oligarchy understood that entering a phase of civil war with fascist or semi-fascist methods against the immediately uprising masses, was playing an all-or-nothing game before time, throwing gasoline on the fire and risking a full defeat.
Fascism is the last government of the bourgeoisie before a possible victory of the socialist revolution. The bourgeoisie resorts to fascism when it must play hard, all-or-nothing-style, to maintain its property. Trump and the regime as a whole were caught in this contradiction. But there is no doubt that the so-called "democratic" or bourgeois "left" governments with their policy of class collaboration, deception and "siren songs", come as the second to last government of the bourgeoisie before fascism. That was well understood by the establishment.
The bankruptcy of US imperialism reels desperate layers of the lower bourgeoisie and the middle classes, and even drags broad sectors of the white working class, to which yesterday the Obama administration and the Democrats downloaded their entire crisis of 2008, taking away their jobs, their social security, their retirement funds and their homes in order to save all the parasites of Wall Street that had swindled the nation and the entire world with bubbles and fictitious values, with 2 trillion dollars.
When the working class and the black people took to the streets to confront the regime and the exploiters as a whole for their demands for decent work, health, housing, etc., and attacked the police and the powers-in-place, the working class tended to join their ranks. When their leaderships forced them to support the bosses and the establishment politicians, they were only made to divide.
In discussions with the US SWP in 1938, Trotsky wondered "how does a democracy become fascist?" and he answered himself: “the petty bourgeois Democrats are bankrupt. Only the most powerful, the great thieves, the richest slave owners, continue to be Democrats”. This proposed to explain in those years that under situations of crisis and economic and social catastrophe, "democracy" becomes less and less possible. This is what is happening in the US today. And this is what Trump's more than 70 million votes express.
This crisis also expresses the tearing of the workers' ranks, caused by the perfidious policy of a reformist pseudo-socialist left and corrupt union bureaucrats who, supporting the bourgeois social-imperialist wing of Sanders and company, ended up politically subjecting the workers to their executioners from the Democratic Party, an issue that has divided the working class.
From Havana, from the headquarters of all the social-imperialist parties, from the renegades of Marxism who even dissolved themselves by entering Sanders' party, they dressed millionaire Zionists as him and charlatans like Ocasio Cortez as “socialists”. These "socialists" of the Democratic Party were watered by the monopolies with millions of dollars to support their candidacies and help them to swindle the people, as they did by taking them to vote for Biden today, as they had done before with Hillary Clinton.
This is what the November electoral trap they imposed on the workers and black people to get them off the streets was all about. The masses were fighting in 50 cities to disband the police. The Democratic Party, through its political crooks dressed as "socialists", and with "siren songs", lies and deceptions, made the people believe that the murderous police could be reformed. Through bourgeois NGOs they have co-opted a large part of the Black Lives Matter organizations. As we have seen, currents that call themselves socialist such as the ISO or the American Communist Party supported Sanders, his deceptions and his lies. It was a complete show to see this millionaire Zionist, come out of the Wall Street sewer, as Trump and Biden have come out, to dare bamboozle the workers and the people in this way, proclaiming “socialism”, dressing up in "deep red" and a "pro-workers" disguise to better deceive the workers and the poor people.
With the masses put to sleep for now in an electoral "pacifist wave", Trump and a sector of the monopolies believed that it was time to take decisive action and tame Congress by fear and the masses in the streets through a brutal repression. In this way, he thought he could conquer a strong government so that the United States can have a free rein to go on superior adventures on a planet where it has long since lost total and global control of the world market and of the key branches of production in the world economy, as we will see later.
By denouncing "a fraud" and taking the reaction to the streets, Trump tried to perpetuate himself, which is what would have happened had his putsch succeeded. But the absolute majority of the establishment understood very well that this was a risky adventure. The masses have been diverted and deceived, but they are far from having been defeated and continue to suffer unprecedented sufferings that are aggravated every day, not only by the pandemic but also by the crash, the crisis and the bankruptcy that US imperialism distills everywhere.
In a decisive clash with the working class with methods of civil war, the result would have been catastrophic for those above. We insist, the masses are far from defeated. Actually, they are not even sleepy. They have been only temporarily deceived. That is why the Democratic Party is coming. Precisely, to demobilize them, to finish putting them to sleep, to cushion the impacts of their struggles against the regime and the government, to repress their combative left wing in the streets with "kind" and "democratic" police and repressive forces, in order to create the best conditions, with the working class totally asleep, for fascism to come, with certain and decisive blows. Strategically this is what US imperialism needs, to go on aggressive and offensive adventures on the planet.
This is what the old Popular Front policy (of class collaboration with the "democratic" or "progressive" bourgeoisie) first established by the social democracy and then by Stalinism, causing the cruelest defeats to the world proletariat, is about and has historically been about. As the Trotskyists' Transitional Program puts it: "the implacable denunciation of the theory and practice of the Popular Front constitutes the first condition for a revolutionary struggle against fascism." Then he continues: "Fascism is a weapon in the hands of capital and not of the feudal landlords." It comes out of the same Wall Street sewer, from the same boards of the companies and banks that today have given the victory to Biden and finance Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez on the left. They will preserve the proto-fascist gangs that have already won the streets. They know they need them and they truly will need them.
The Trump gang got the timing wrong and opened a huge political crisis in the heights. He now has momentarily retreated to his Florida mansion, accepting the election result. The bourgeoisie perceives that if it does not close this crisis in the heights, the masses can break in independently and dislocate and defeat all the institutions of domination of the US empire. In fact all of them are in question: the police for being murderers, the judges because they are denounced for validating fraud even by the bourgeoisie itself, the politicians for saving the millionaires and killing the people of hunger and plagues. That is what Biden came to proclaim: to rebuild unity and close the gaps in the heights before the masses surpass their reformist leaderships that subjected them to the Democratic Party and the electoral trap. That's what Pence, Trump's vice president, did as the guest of honor at Biden's inauguration. The Zionist Sanders was also there, pledging allegiance to this policy of "unity" of the powerful to close the gap in the heights.
They all know that they are in a race against time. The working class and the exploited have not surrendered at all. No section of the oppressed has withdrawn from the battlefield. They have only been misled momentarily. Nothing is said yet.
In the midst of the catastrophe, the crash and the bankruptcy of the United States and the world economy, the return of the Democratic Party to handle the businesses of big capital, beyond this or that alms that they want to pass off as concessions or reforms, absolutely not it means that Biden is coming to solve the problems of the exploited and their core demands. He comes to subdue the masses and will only create and develop the conditions of catastrophe for fascism to raise its head. These are the true conditions that the next government of the Democratic Party is preparing. This is what the shareholders of the Wall Street financial oligarchy voted for when they gave it power. And it remains to be seen if with the "American dream" hoax that these parasites raise today to deceive the people, they will do well. Sure, Biden and Sanders will be smart and will also be looking with one eye at the White House elevators to hide in the bunker as Trump had to do under siege by the masses.
What a “perfect democracy”, that of the United States! An imperialism in crisis and bankruptcy that has thrown all its pestilences and robberies on its own working class and all the oppressed peoples of the world, while disputing with the other imperialist powers to win the world market, knowing that it is no longer alone as in Yalta to control it from Washington with a single finger pushing a button.
What a ghost of an American democracy, less and less sweetened and without its silk robes. The new president speaks on the steps of the Capitol, surrounded by more soldiers than the US has today on the fronts of Iraq and Afghanistan. This is what the "democracy of Rome" is all about; this is what the slaver democracy of Wall Street and the imperialist bankers is all about, which today comes to light.
They can do this and they can cover up this brutal crisis on the heights so that their slaves do not take advantage of it and break in and dismantle this infamous imperialist regime, because many Uncle Toms and working class sellouts have been bought by capital to save its businesses and interests, especially in this time of crisis, in the US and worldwide.
Carlos Munzer |