The Old Fashioned and Extinct Dream of American "Democracy"

Liberal Democrats and the reformist left around the world have paid homage to "American democracy" for decades. They made the workers of the world believe that fascism had nothing to do with the United States and that everything was resolved there by a "sovereign people through universal suffrage." This fiction collapsed like a house of cards with the putsch encouraged by Trump and sectors of the police on January 6, with which they tried to obstruct Biden's assumption of the government.
With the banner of "democracy" and "human rights" US imperialism has been covering up its worst and harshest fascistic blows throughout the planet to impose its conditions of domination and submission to the oppressed peoples. The US came to dominate the world economy and politics threatening with atomic bombs, as those it dropped in World War II.

The power of the American domestic market was enhanced at the end of the war, since during the entire Yalta period; the US absorbed a large part of world production. The exaltation of the American imperialists' rule was increased with the fall of the former USSR and China, which were sold out by Stalinism. The restoration of capitalism gave fresh blood to this pestilential capitalist system and created the illusion that an era of unlimited strengthening of capitalism was beginning from '89 on and of the United States in particular. This created a vision that the "democracy" proclaimed by US imperialism had been strengthened, it was shown as an example in the world, while outside its borders, as we have already said, its 5 military commands together with the CIA and NATO were the largest managers of fascist actions, counterrevolutionary coups and genocides all over the world.

But far from solving their contradictions in '89, the imperialist powers only managed to have a respite while opening new historical contradictions. The European imperialist powers regrouped for their business around "Greater Germany." This imperialist bloc entered into a dispute for the world market and for the new businesses that were opening in China and especially in Russia, from which they continue to suck its hydrocarbons and gas in particular. The conditions for the deepening of open inter-imperialist disputes were already ripe. The Yalta era, with the anomaly of an "American super imperialism", had come to an end.

The party did not last long and new crises hit the planet from within its most powerful economy: that of the United States.
Already at the end of the 90s, the first great crisis broke out in the United States and worldwide. Finance capital and the Wall Street oligarchy had used up values ​​that human labor had not yet produced. A huge crisis broke out with the falsified balance sheets of the high-tech companies that emerged from the industrial-military apparatus. The Enron was the emblematic case of this great scam, raising the value of the shares in a fictitious way to distribute succulent dividends. Thus, they made the stock market crash in 1997 and plunged the US into a phase of acute recession, while the Clinton administration ended and was replaced by the Bush one.

One must carefully observe the reaction of US imperialism to this acute crisis that surprised it after the revelry of the '90s, based on the looting and collapse of the absolute majority of the world-economy.
The Bush administration appeared, which largely bonapartised the US regime, with "anti-terrorist" laws, the right to state intervention in all private lives of individuals, and so on. It was the phase of "bonapartization" of the American "democracy" inwards, which included the self-attack on the Twin Towers to justify the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and the dismantling of all the institutions of collegiate rule with the rest of the imperialist powers on the planet, starting with the UNO and the OAS. The US launched the "oil wars", increased oil price and shot its way into the world to guarantee itself to remain as the dominant imperialism. Bush's motto was: "either with US as a friend or against US."

But the world-economy imposed on the United States that there cannot be a single imperialist power that controls the entire world market since there are others. At that time the "great" Germany had already achieved its unification and through it, it had conquered what it had not achieved with two world wars: its hegemony in its "vital space" of imperialist Europe and in the east, sucking the former USSR .

The bravado did not last long for US imperialism. A mass uprising within the United States against the war, together with the heroic Iraqi resistance, caused it a tough defeat like yesterday in Vietnam and made it play the clarinet of withdrawal from Iraq.

But the US threw this crisis on the world and redoubled its plunder of China, opening up the latter's economy and absorbing the securities of its trade surplus in exchange for US Treasury bonds, thereby financing all US deficits. Parasitic growth based on real estate bubbles, commodities, oil, etc., developed in China, the US and around the world, something that erupted in 2008, the second great crisis. A crisis like that of the 1930s that US imperialism threw at the world working class, the rest of the imperialist powers and the semi-colonial world it plundered.
There Obama appeared, "shaking hands with Muslim peoples", posing as "kind" and "good neighbor". But none of that was real. The US was able to survive by harshly attacking the American working class and ending up decoupling all its aristocratic and privileged sectors in the heart of the empire. It was the Obama administration that robbed the greatest conquests from the American working class, the one that killed dozens of George Floyds with its murderous police and the one that, while speaking of "peace", shot its way into the world continuing the Zionism's "Operation Cast Lead" against the Palestinian masses.
Obama was who lent a “protective umbrella” to all the fascist and counterrevolutionary dictatorships, such as Al Sisi in Egypt and al-Assad in Syria, who massacred the peoples who rose up in 2011 against hunger and misery in the Maghreb and the Middle East. Furthermore, the use of the Iranian "friend" to maintain order manu military in the Middle East was the work of the "pacifist" Obama.

With political and commercial pacts and agreements, Obama tried to maintain the supremacy of US imperialism in the world. Huge masses of capital had already left the US since the mid-1990s. They settled in China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Latin America, etc., transforming the world into a great maquila of the imperialist powers. This ended emptying relatively the American home market. Searching for more and more slave labor and using the comparative advantages of the nations it oppresses, the transnationals went to the world. This is a law for any imperialism that advances on the world dominating it and thus the own branch where it is settled is cut off. In other words, the more the United States dominates the world market, the more it loots it, the more it advances on it and the more it weakens within it, because more profits and capital flow outside its borders. What they did concentrate within the United States were their parasitic businesses, their financial bubbles and the enormous high-tech investments for the war, financed by the American state.

The Obama era characterized by failed pacts with rival imperialist powers in Europe, but he took credit for having diverted and crushed the revolutions in the Maghreb and the Middle East and for having broken the siege around Cuba, which allowed him to re-enter all of Latin America, and stabilize the situation in its “backyard”. In addition, he advanced in Ukraine choking a revolution with NATO troops, which placed them on the borders of Russia, and with his vice president Biden remaining as the baron of gas throughout Europe.

With its "defensive" policy and its "good-natured" Obama face, imperialism concentrated forces and disorganized the mass offensive, but weakened its internal market and left a section of Wall Street bandits out of business such as the cement and heavy industry barons who benefited from contracts from the US states. A cartel of true "contractor patriots".

They were back in business when Trump became president. "America first" was his rallying cry, promising to return to the "American dream" of the powerful internal market and to open the customs barriers of the other imperialist powers, and of Russia and China in particular. Trump closed the American domestic market to concentrate all its forces to take over the Chinese domestic market and its state-owned companies that are profitable.

But again a third economic morass was developing during the final year of Trump's presidency. US imperialism and the world economy as a whole were sustained and relatively emerged, although with indebtedness, from the 2008 catastrophe by diverting the revolution or crushing it, taking advantage of the great betrayals of the leaderships of the masses. The debt of the states and of the companies is today equivalent to 262 trillion dollars. That is how much the imperialist parasites spent without producing goods to back it up. Contrariwise to conventional wisdom, “zero rate” (without interest) credits and the issuance of dollars without the backing of the Federal Reserve never worked.

At the beginning of 2020 the coronavirus pandemic hit not in a flourishing economy, but amidst bankruptcy, within a new heart attack of the world crisis, which exploded in the Trump gang's hands, without having won a war, without having decisively opened any economy, either in Europe or in China or Russia ... and without having reactivated the American internal market. That is, Trump deceived sectors of the masses and the ruined middle classes of the United States, making promises of a better future, but got  practically no new business to the monopolies, the heart of the establishment, the 17 largest banks of the world oligarchy that are in Wall Street; instead he handed them out a broken country.

The US has already thrown 3 crises on the planet in the last 23 years, equivalent to three "1930s crises". It left the world economy bankrupt and did it together with the rest of the imperialist powers that threw all their crisis on their own working classes and the peoples they oppress, as happened with the Maastricht bankruptcy in 2008 and the one that is in the making today with a deep recession.

The countercyclical measures taken by the central banks of Europe, and of the United States particularly, to provide credits at "zero rate", show all the parasitic decay of a system that deserves to die. The Wall Street companies, far from investing this cheap money in the production process, distributed these credits as dividends and profits, or they lent them to the semi-colonial world. They raised their shares, fictitiously increasing the value of their balance sheets; but those funds did not go to production, where capitalism has not been able to recover the profit rate for a long time and can only do so with state investments for the military industry.

The US threw the crisis back to the world and the world no longer supports the US as it is today. Trump's trade wars with Europe, with China, etc., are the mirror that refracts this rottenness of the world capitalist system.

The parliamentary bourgeois “democracy” of US imperialism can no longer contain the capacity to reconcile or channel the contradictions between the classes in the USA or among the international politics of the different US imperialist monopolies on the planet.

Bourgeois parliamentarism can no longer guarantee the peaceful course of events. They have sunk into ruin millions of sectors of the American middle classes that today are even looking for bags of food to feed themselves in the midst of the pandemic, while millions of workers do not have a job or home and live on government handouts. The desperate sectors of the middle classes are now looking for a solution to their crisis ... They are the basis of fascism.

The "Trump era" has not ended in the midst of the crisis of political, economic and military domination of the United States, which heralds a jump in clashes with the rest of the imperialist powers. This deep time of crisis, wars and revolutions pose to US imperialism that to guarantee the unity of its elites and its ruling classes and to maintain dominance of the world economy and not lose out with the rest of the powers that dispute it, it needs Bonapartism ... fascism later on ... as much as today it needs the perfidious policy of class collaboration, popular front and deception to contain and numb the masses and then crush them.

The US financial oligarchy, which is controlled by no one except its own shareholders, threatens to drive the planet to barbarism and is already destroying the US, absorbing its wealth like a parasite and leading the masses to the worst living conditions of its history. If the means of production remain in their hands, there is no longer any salvation for the workers and poor people of the United States and the world. The bourgeoisie has driven the United States and the entire planet's economy into complete bankruptcy. It no longer ensures bread or decent work or a hospital bed either in Bangladesh or in New York.
The period of the decline of  American parliamentary "democracy" as we have known it historically has begun. The contradictions among the classes will be resolved, sooner rather than later, weapons in hand. Woe to the working class if it does not find strategic clarity in its fight! The proto-fascist putsch is an indication that capital has not only liars and charlatans in the Democratic Party, but also dogs trained to attack the labor movement. The attack on the Capitol was a great trial to go for the working class if they rise up again. Big capital has ruined the middle classes. There is no turning back. Either the proletariat will win over its lower layers with independent combat, or fascism will.

In the US, the movement going from democracy to fascism is still in its infancy. Parliament continues to exist. Biden has taken over. But none of them have the force that "American democracy" once had. A couple thousand fascists put its "heroes" under their seats. In time the masses will set up the councils of workers, rank and file soldiers and their militia. That day will be the victory of the socialist revolution, because today's events point towards that historical alternative.

The threat from all Wall Street moguls to withdraw all funds from Trump and the Republican Party, if they did not accept their defeat, demonstrates the true character of "American democracy", that is, a "democracy" of the slaveholders. Those who have the dollars rule. The financial oligarchy withdrew $ 800 million from the Republican Party to force Trump to back down from his putschist attempt. Trump complied. But even if the "left" of the Democratic Party shouts and plays the "rebellious" and "transgressive", a part of those same funds are going to the fascists and their partners the federal, state and local polices and the CIA, and oddly enough, another part goes to the Democratic Party. If we are not mistaken, the Zionist Sanders counted on several million dollars to campaign for him, deceive the masses and submit them to Biden. Mr. Sanders, an agent of Zionism and Mossad, was who gave Biden the list of the 10 Zionists who are in his cabinet, including the CIA commander, the Attorney General, chief prosecutor, plus nothing more or none other than the director of the US Treasury ... Biden's cabinet is full of Zionists from the fascist state of Israel, which is settled in the occupation of the Palestinian nation with methods of civil war and crushing the peoples of the Middle East. This is the "democracy" of Sanders-Biden, so whoever does not fight imperialism, does not fight fascism.

That is what “American democracy” is all about, the “democracy” of the dollars of the slave owners who today have decided to put Biden to show a conciliatory face with the masses and with the world, to seek new agreements and pacts, after Trump's threats, which he could not achieve.
The intentions to lift the embargo on Iran and Cuba are an objective of this new administration. There are succulent businesses there. The Bidens know about it, after they took over the Ukraine gas business.
To take back Iran is to challenge imperialist Europe with huge deals in the Middle East, which are being lost due to Trump's blockade, but above all, this move aims to put Zionism back as the gendarme of the region.
The "kind" Biden has already called for investing 10 times more than Trump in NATO. He needs its troops on the borders with Russia to take care of Ukraine. He needs a strong and armed to the teeth NATO to go after the former Soviet Islamic republics, to go back to the Caucasus and for the oil business in that entire region, which the "great" Turkey is controlling on its own.

And China? There the "goodness" of "democracy" ends. Obama has already said it: "The US is a Pacific power." There it won the war and there the gunboats will speak ... That is what imperialist "democracy" is all about.

Carlos Munzer