Vain Attempts to Preserve the Union When Anarchy Has Been Raised to Authority
When anarchy reigns as it does in the United States, it is because narrow private interests which operate on a supranational basis, not within the confines of a demarcated territory, have seized control of the state power and all its institutions, agencies and armed and police forces at its disposal. Because of their inherent striving to control everything and dominate, the people are deprived of decision-making power at every level and all decision-making power is now hotly contested by the most powerful interests. These powerful private interests often operate on the basis of coalitions and cartels. They sometimes belong to more than one at a time even if they compete against themselves, so long as this brings them windfall profits and greater control over spheres of interest and human and natural resources. The method they use to sort out all problems nationally and internationally is violence.
This is a very serious matter of concern in this U.S. presidential election. Simply put, neither does Might Make Right, nor does suppression resolve any problem as the experience with the U.S. "democracy" shows. But what is significant is to look at how the U.S. is currently intervening domestically to suppress the resistance of the U.S. working class and people to its anti-social offensive and internationally to make sure it maintains its position as "indispensable nation." It will allow only its prescription for how to deal with the dangers in which its striving for world hegemony has plunged the world, as we are seeing currently in how it deals with the U.S./Zionist failure to eradicate the Palestinian people and now, its invasion of Lebanon while keeping Iran and other countries in check.
A state of anarchy exists because the democratic institutions designed to provide processes to sort out differences within the ruling factions and between them and the masses of the people so as to restore peace when conflicts arise, no longer function. It indicates the failure of the system based on such dysfunctional institutions because the public authority which they were created to preserve has been discarded in favour of imposing schemes of the narrow private interests they claim are in the national interest -- something nobody believes.
Once anarchy is raised to authority, everyone has to fend for themselves and there are no limitations on what the narrow private interests can do except those imposed by the resistance of the working class and peoples at home and abroad.
As the destruction of the public authority takes its toll, with no institutional means to sort out conflicts and reach political solutions, the use of force takes over. The clash between the Conditions in which the people live and work and of life itself and the Authority exists independent of anyone's will. People are born into a society as it exists, with the relations that exist. The explosion of the human productive powers, human energy, in this modern period cannot be contained or controlled by the existing systems and their "law and order," whether within the country or internationally.
Attempts by police powers to violently and through the use of courts and armed force suppress the conflicting interests cause tremendous human and material damage. We see this all around us everywhere, with egregious crimes being committed by the U.S. and its "allies." The consequences are so extreme these countries are today seen as comprising a "Genocide Cartel."
The Need for Modern Democratic Institutions
But the consciousness of the people arising out of the recognition of the necessity for change leads to the conclusion that the solution lies in creating modern democratic institutions. A modern democracy must be informed by modern political thought consistent with the call of history and philosophical considerations which put the human factor/social consciousness at the centre of all endeavors. Today fidelity cannot be limited to a cause only but must be based on fidelity to the ensemble of relations between humans and humans and humans and nature and what they reveal, which is the need for the working class and people to establish their own political power.
Human rights and the institutions to provide them with a guarantee must be defined by the people themselves. This is a battle led by the working class in its striving to bring the human productive forces under control with the aim of constituting the nation in its own image and putting decision making in the hands of the people. Try as they might, this striving cannot be held back by the police powers of the U.S. president whose main job is to "preserve the Union" at home and its own rules-based system and role of "indispensable nation" abroad.
Russia, Mexico, all the countries in West Asia and North Africa and all of Africa as well as the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean -- everyone and everything is part of U.S. calculations to preserve the United States and its role as "indispensable nation."
This is what we see playing out in the competition between the machinery of Kamala Harris and the machinery of Donald Trump to occupy the Office of the President of the United States and become Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
This fierce competition to win the presidency includes the collusion and contention within and between the Office of the President, the branches of the military, the intelligence agencies and the many agencies of Homeland Security.
The southern border alone has Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. troops and Texas National Guard, and all are armed to the teeth. The federal forces clash with parallel powers in the hands of the governors of the 50 states which also compete with one another.
Furthermore, cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angles have large armies of their own, with drones, helicopters, tanks, and automatic weapons. These various forces and states and regions can line up and divide along various lines, making open violent civil war within the United States unpredictable and dangerous.
Just as the various contending forces at the federal, state, county, and city levels have their own armed forces, so too do the various contending factions in the private domain. Thus, preserving the Union is not possible without the dictatorship of cartels and coalitions comprised of the most powerful against everyone else, especially the peoples.
Forging such cartels and coalitions is what the U.S. presidential election is all about. Who will win is determined by which cartel and coalitions prevail at the time the votes of the Electoral College are counted and the vote is certified. Money, power, threats of invasions, acts of genocide, assassinations -- everything is being thrown at the endeavor to come out on top in the hopes of bringing all the unruly forces under control both at home and abroad.
Who will win the presidency in large measure revolves around who the U.S. ruling class thinks best serves its interests at this time and what those interests are. A big effort was made to nominate Kamala Harris for president and to promote her nationally now on the grounds that she will create a less volatile situation than Donald Trump. Making life less unpredictable is crucial to U.S. attempts to control human productive forces both at home and abroad -- or destroy what cannot be controlled.
All of this makes the rhetoric about a peaceful transition of power following this election not a plan but a threat.
How will this play out? Harris appears to be emerging as the champion of the rulers to block the people and prevent open civil war at this time. Will she succeed? What role can the people play when the outcome of the vote is not determined by the vote count itself but by those with positions of power and privilege and their set up of selecting a champion and disempowering the people?
What is certain is that the striving of the U.S. rulers to preserve the Union on the basis of the police powers provided the Office of the President by the current Constitution and using violations of rule of law both nationally and internationally will not enable them to escape the call of history. The call of history beckons the people to become rulers themselves, by creating modern institutions which put the interests of the peoples at home and abroad in first place.
The path ahead is sure to be strewn with more injustices and carnage but so too is the resistance of the peoples becoming more experienced and capable. It is their determination to build a future by upholding the rights of all which we will see prevail even as events continue to unfold in a manner which goes against the peoples' striving for peace, freedom and democracy.
This article was published in
Volume 54 Number 43 - October 14, 2024
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https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/Articles/TS54435.HTM
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