peace and hotep,
exerpts from jack london's "the iron heel";
" I mean that there is a shadow of something colossal and menacing that even now is becoming to fall across the land. Call it the shadow of an oligarchy, if you will; it is the nearest i dare approximate it. What its nature may be I refuse to imagine ( though, like Everhard, they did not dream of the nature of it, there were men, even before his time, who caught glimpses of the shadow. John C. Calhoun said: 'A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.' And that great humanist, Abraham Lincoln(sic), said, just before his assassination: 'I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.'
'The United States is a capitalist country that has developed its resources. According to its capitalist system of industy, it has an unconsumed surplus that must be got rid of, and that must be got rid of abroad. What is true of the United States is true of every other capitalist country with developed resources. Every one of such countries has an unconsumed surplus. Don't forget that they have already traded with one another, and that these surpluses yet remain. Labor in all these countries has spent its wages, and cannot buy any of the surpluses, Capital in all these countries has already comsumed all it is able according to its nature. And still remain the surpluses. They cannot dispose of thes surpluses to one another. How are they going to get rid of them?....first sell them to countries with undeveloped resources, but what will happen when every country in the world, down to the smallest and last, develops its own resources into surpluses and stand confronting every other country with surpluses in their hands?.....What, then, when every country in the world has an unconsumed surplus? Where will your capitalist system be then?'
'.....I have demonstrated to you mathematically the inevitable breakdown of the capitalist system. When every country stands with an unconsumed and unsalable surplus on its hands, the capitalist system will break down under the terrific structure of profits that it itslf has reared. And in that day there won't be any destruction of the machines. The struggle then will be for the ownership of the machines. . . .If the LARGE CAPITALISTS or trusts win in this battle over the ownership of the machines and the world, then you, labor, and all of us, WILL BE CRUSHED UNDER THE IRON HEEL OF A DESPOTISM AS RELENTLESS AND TERRIBLE AS ANY DESPOTISM THAT HAS BLACKENDED THE PAGES OF THE HISTORY OF MAN. That will be a good name for that despotism,
THE IRON HEEL......'
'......It is the brain of the Plutocracy that controls the government and this brain consists of seven small and powerful groups of men working in unison.. . . .'
'The Plutocracy has all power in its hands to-day. It makes the laws, for it owns the Senate, Congress, the courts, and the state legislatures. And not only that. Behind law must be force to execute the law. To-day the Plutocracy makes the law, and to enforce the law it has at its beck and call the police, the army, the navy, and, lastly, the militia, which is you, and me, and all of us'. "
now as for "What its nature may be?", i would say that it is the natural course of racism('white' pseudo-supremacy').
the three types of racism according to kovel's 'white racism: a psychohistory' :
1. dominative racist - the type who acts out bigoted beliefs. whether a night rider in the south or a member of a mob protesting open housing in chicago, he represents the open flame of race hatredl the true white bigot expresses a definitive ambition through all his activity: he openly seeks to keep the black man down, and he is willing to use force to further his ends.
2. aversive racist - the type who believes in white race superiority and is more or less aware of it, but does nothing overt about it. an intrapsychic battle goes on between these sentiments and a conscience which seeks to repudiate them, or at least to prevent the person from acting wrongly upon them. this often means not to act at all, and such inaction serves as the only resolution of the inner conflict. because of this , the person tends to behave in ways that avoid the issue: he tries to ignore the existence of black people, tries to avoid contact with them,, and at most to be polite, correct and cold in whatever dealings are necessary between the races. within this type we find at one extreme those individuals who, upon threat--such as when a black gets 'too close' -- lapse into dominative racism; and at the other, those who, impelled by a strong social conscience, consider themselves liberals and, despite their sense of aversion (which may not even be admitted inwardly), do their best within the given structure of society to ameliorate the conditions of the negro. aversion in thes variants is revealed in a pronounced willingness to undertake social reform via remote, impersonal means, and by a corresponding reluctance to engage in any kind of intimacy with black people. the range of aversive racism reveals it to be a transitional type between dominative racism and our third type.
3. metaracist - this type does not reveal racist tendencies at all-- except as the unconscious persistence of what may be considered mass fantasies. he belongs to the advancing edge of history and is considerably less defined than the first two.
racism, which began with the random oppression of another person and moved from directly dominative, systematic control of his being, into abstracted averted use of his degradation, now passes beyond consciousness, holding only to its inner connections with the symbolic matrix. metraracism is a distinct and very peculiar modern phenomenon, racial degradation continues on a different plane, and through a different agency: those who participate in it are not racists---- that is, they are not racially prejudiced-- but metaracists, because they acquiesce in the larger cultural order which continues the work of racism. although mataracism is not the only for of modern american racial behavior, nor even the predominant form at present, it is the form which seems in accord with the latest version of the plague of history. whether or not it will prevail will depend upon history itself-- UPON WHETHER THE MATRIX WILL CONTINUE ITS HOLD UPON US, or whether its inner weaknesses may signal its forthcoming replacement by a new psychohistorical symbolic order.
london foresaw the rise of fascism in amorica while kovel describe that fascism as 'white racism'. i state that the plutocracy must destroy democracy in order to preserve their 'white star' genetic line.
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