Re: [Working_Class_Study_and_Action] Re: Organising against the Tea Party
To: Working_Class_Study_and_Action@yahoogroups.com, working_class_news@yahoogroups.com, anticapdiscuss@yahoogroups.com
"...spoil the media's goal of splitting the protest by AGREEING with what the Tea Party is saying that AGREES with the truth: The exposure of the Fed, the bail out..."
The Tea Party is attempting to hijack the issue of bail out in order to prevent it from becoming a platform upon which a legitimate anti-establishment (anti-capitalist) popular movement could organise itself. as expressed by the WSWS in its analysis of the Tea Party:
"...Tea Party-backed candidates such as O’Donnell and Paladino make an appeal to very real social grievances among middle-class and even working class voters, exploiting the political vacuum left by the uniformly right-wing policies of the Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress.They combine denunciations of the government bailout of Wall Street, Obama’s cost-cutting, pro-business health care “reform,” and other handouts to the corporate elite with a glorification of American militarism and reactionary attacks on immigrants, abortion rights, gays, etc...Their populist pretensions are entirely demagogic, and the solutions they propose—sweeping cuts and even the dismantling of basic social programs, sharper attacks on public sector workers—are even more brutal than the policies being carried out by Obama..."
As a concrete proposal; I cited the model ORANISING and CAMPAIGN models of the Venezuelan PSUV patrullas/ maquinaria roja of 2010 and the Zapatista "Otra Campaña" of 2006, specifically as they pertain basing campaign activity on existing social movements and existing social organisations ('las bases'); because these are successful examples of grassroots organising that do not operate on the premises of neoliberal individuation and marketisation of political activity and discourse. a political program is not a brand, and marketing does not define culture. "one man one vote" is not democracy, only the first step towards democracy. the organising model of the PSUV has delivered victory after victory to the Venezuelan transition government, while the Zapatista "otra campaña" (which was global) was a direct influence upon the victory of Lopez Obrador / PRD and the formation of the parallel APPO government in Oaxaca. The reason the United States Embassy in Mexico ordered the PAN government to rig the election in 2006 was precisely because of the success of the organising model of the ''Otra Campaña''. The Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the Bolivian MAS also based their campaigns on this "Bolivarian-Zapatista model" in 2006 and 2009 respectively; the result was two major victories for the Segunda Independencia / Second Independence. In the Nicaraguan case the FSLN returned to power, in the Bolivian sense the Indigenista Plurinational Constitution was ratified in a referendum - the first indigenous peoples' constitution in the Americas -north, centre and south.
refs. (CREDIBLE socialist perspectives on the Tea Party)
The Tea Party primary election victories
The “Tea Party” movement in the US: A right-wing media creation
Media promotes right-wing “tea parties”
From: Miguel Angel
Subject: Re: [Working_Class_Study_and_Action] Fwd: ] Re: campaign for a mass labor party
To:
Working_Class_Study_and_Action@yahoogroups.com, working_class_news@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 8:09 PM
I have not stated that "the tea party equals nazi germany". I stated that the Tea Party is PROTO-fascist. if not confronted forcefully with an anti-thesis now it could very well become the basis for the growth of a real fascist movement. /n2
Jay Janson
To: Working_Class_Study_and_Action@yahoogroups.com
Miguel Angel
Is correct in all three of his paragraphs, however by quoting j janson at the top,
"...spoil the media's goal of splitting the protest by AGREEING with what the Tea Party is saying that AGREES with the truth: The exposure of the Fed, the bail out..."
Miguel appears to be answering janson's message with pointing to Tea Party backed candidates O’Donnell and Paladino denouncing the bail outs. Janson exhorts us only to agree with the truth as being felt by masses of Americans, NOT worrying that doing so will raise support for any candidates or capitalist political parties.
Miguel is right that the truth is being 'hijacked,' just as the German industrial bankers had Hitler steal the socialist's truth and even implement much of it after being supported into power. The tiny minority of politically knowledgeable is in similar quandry as a much larger politically sophisticated even socialist part of that German public end of the 1920s at the Nazi party's beginnings.
Miguel's excellent call to emullate the physically demonstrative Venezuelan left and Zapatistas would seem to be the only way non-capitalist to steal the mock thunder of the banker programed right. Capture the bail out issue by more attention and reaction causing behavior than the phony anti bail out leaders backed with weathy investor cash and investor media constantly highlighting the Tea Party and billowing up its actual present number of adherents to split the population and prevent non-capitalist sentiment.
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[November 4th, 2010]
Re: Alleged "Republican Victory" usurped anti-Obama Protest Vote.
[this result is not surprising at all given that democrat party "triangulation" towards right wing politics created a political climate of legitimacy for the agenda of the proto-fascist Tea Party movement. the pre-emptive Homeland Security Gestapo and FBI assault upon the anti-war dissident and socialist activist communities also created an athmosphere of intimidation among the left wing of the anti-establishment; this dampened the possibility of manifesting opposition against democrat party candidates. the 2010 midtems where a referendum on the obama regime. the republican party and the tea party faction inside of it are only capitalising on a protest vote against the failed policies of the obama administration. I was, of course, a "protest vote" only insofar as far as the votes in question where accurately counted; as in reality the popular vote in the USA is of a consultative and not determinative nature./n2]
"The electoral debacle is a devastating indictment of the Obama administration and the Democratic Party. Two years after an overwhelming victory in the presidential election, four years after the Republicans lost control of both the House and the Senate, the right-wing policies of the Democrats have created the conditions for a massive comeback by the Republicans.The corporate-controlled media and the representatives of the two big business parties are already proclaiming that the outcome of the election demonstrates that the American people have shifted to the right, embracing the “free market” nostrums of the Republican Party and the right-wing Tea Party movement."
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[November 4th, 2010]
Re: Alleged "Republican Victory" usurped anti-Obama Protest Vote.
[this result is not surprising at all given that democrat party "triangulation" towards right wing politics created a political climate of legitimacy for the agenda of the proto-fascist Tea Party movement. the pre-emptive Homeland Security Gestapo and FBI assault upon the anti-war dissident and socialist activist communities also created an athmosphere of intimidation among the left wing of the anti-establishment; this dampened the possibility of manifesting opposition against democrat party candidates. the 2010 midtems where a referendum on the obama regime. the republican party and the tea party faction inside of it are only capitalising on a protest vote against the failed policies of the obama administration. I was, of course, a "protest vote" only insofar as far as the votes in question where accurately counted; as in reality the popular vote in the USA is of a consultative and not determinative nature./n2]
"The electoral debacle is a devastating indictment of the Obama administration and the Democratic Party. Two years after an overwhelming victory in the presidential election, four years after the Republicans lost control of both the House and the Senate, the right-wing policies of the Democrats have created the conditions for a massive comeback by the Republicans.The corporate-controlled media and the representatives of the two big business parties are already proclaiming that the outcome of the election demonstrates that the American people have shifted to the right, embracing the “free market” nostrums of the Republican Party and the right-wing Tea Party movement."
[the republican take over of the so-called "house of representatives" signals the obama regime to continue and intensify the agenda of domestic austerity and foreign militarism. this has implications for the usa working class and oppressed groups. there will be more foreclosures, more wage and benefit cutting in what remains of the industrial infrastructure, more repression directed against anti-war and socialist community dissidents, more attacks on immigrant and gay minorities. obama will now move to intensify efforts to destabilise Eurasia by increasing naval provocations against china and the DPRK on the pretext of "freedom of the seas", impose more sanctions against Iran; while expanding the war in AFPAK (nothwithstanding psychological propaganda about alleged "talks" between kharzai and "the taliban"). the only way to confront this is to organise a new opposition movement based on anti-war and economic democracy demands premised upon breaking with liberalism and the the democrat party. the 'tea party' has had its day, the billionares who funded it have accomplished their goals with it and now they are likely to dispense with its props. i am not sure i agree that it was a total flop as it did succeed in creating the conditions for the republican party to usurp the anti-obama protest vote that rightfully belonged to the left; as most of the dissapointment with The Hope That Failed comes from constituencies who understand that they where duped and betrayed by the democrat party. /n2]
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