Sunday, May 18, 2008

Chris Herz: It is past time to finish building mass organizations for extension of the revolution and for its defense within Venezuela

VHeadline's Washington D.C.-based commentarist Chris Herz writes: The failure of Hillary Rodham Clinton to take her party's nomination for the US presidency has surprised many analysts. Myself among them.

A year ago I thought, along with most of my colleagues that she was unbeatable.

  • But this last year has made it unmistakable, even to the heartlands, that the empire is in serious difficulties. And that some new direction must be taken in order to try to save it.

It is difficult to disguise from anyone with access to news and analysis from sources other than the big electronic media -- CNN, NPR, FOX, etc -- the depth of the cracks in the national foundation, and the alarm of this Internet surfing "elite" is gradually percolating down to the majority of the electorate.

However, it is important to note that in all the bigger blog sites, places like Buzzflash, Commondreams, Dailykos, for instance there is manifested no desire whatsoever to examine the structural weaknesses underlying the walls of the imperial state.

We see no interest in exploring the fact that the same electorate which is now willing to dump the Bushites, after having voted twice for them, is only willing to go so far as to replace them with another group of neo-liberal imperialists. And that's the stark truth. Barak Obama is no reformer.

I think there is outright, but carefully unstated fear in such "liberal" circles that the USA can never afford some sort of perestroika or glasnost. Such moves would lead to the unraveling of the US polity, just as surely as they did for that of the USSR.

The editorial people at Buzz flash or OKs cannot be unaware of the pessimistic analyses of people like Chalmers Johnson or Paul Craig Roberts -- renegade insiders themselves. And all the more convincing by that fact alone.

What has really happened to us cannot be stated by organizations still committed as these are to the Democratic Party. And that is that we went morally bankrupt in 1968 when we voted to suppress the Civil Rights and anti war movements at the hands of the Nixon administration. We then went financially bankrupt in the first oil shocks of 1973 and 1980. Reagan, the first Bush, and yes, good old Bill Clinton just put the icing on the cake.

The US citizenry and their chosen leaders went knowingly -- and fecklessly -- down this garden path, disdainfully and contemptuously ignoring the pleas and advice of our best and wisest. Those asking for decency and even common prudence were called traitor or worse. Every US citizen who voted for the creepy types who have run our country in recent decades, every US citizen who went and bought a big SUV or mammoth pick-up truck has carefully and consciously spat in the face of humanity. That way of life is done. Forever.

This is the reality faced by the various apparatchiki who seek to rule our country in this coming mock-election. Itself, as the last and those before that, carefully orchestrated by big money.

Our voters remain "conservative" because they see the policies of racism and war as having served them well. And they have.

Until now.

Only the stout-hearted resistance of so many Iraqis has shoved aside some of the veils so carefully worn by our people. Had this resistance not been so massive in captured Mesopotamia not one of those now attacking him so furiously would have a thing to say against Bush or his empire.

It is against this background that President Chavez and his followers must work.

It is now or never to break with empire. It is time, past time, to de-couple the national currency from the dollar. It is past time to finish building mass organizations for extension of the revolution and for its defense within Venezuela. It is past time to recognize the FARC-EP as the legitimate polity of Colombia, and to support them accordingly. The opportunity to act while the empire is deployed 10,000 kilometers from what must ever be its military schwerpunkt can never come again.

One must ever remember that no less than five years after they were unceremoniously evicted from Southeast Asia the imperialists were busy in the conquest of Central America.

And now they lurk in Colombia

From the imperial capital

Chris Herz
cdherz44@yahoo.com

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