Change. The United States in transition

Why now?

 The USSR began to fall behind the West in 1965 (Monopoly Capital,Baran and Sweezy,Modern Review Press,Syracuse University) and the currents of change began to develop in 1983 and slowly became a torrent of peaceful opposition to an ossified society and a heritage of one-party government. In 1991,the All-Russia Congress of Trades Unions not the CIA brought about a change of course. The outcome? At first slash-and-burn economics before stability was restored, at least in terms of government finances.

Today America is changing too because its industrial supremacy but not its culture of invention may have ended. The appalling levels of innovation by its competitors marks America out as a leader in most fields. Its competitors such as Germany are technically gifted but all-at-sea in technological and innovative terms (or empirio-scientific frames of reference).

 America is approaching its problems in a different way. Its problems are singular, namely,failure to raise taxes and procure a social and health safety net. The latter is vital to reduce downward pressure on net and gross incomes.

 Changes are moving rapidly ahead in the US under a President who is one of our own.

 China? Will it too change? 

 Yes,it will change too but there is no real appetite for change outside Hong Kong. America must change first. 

According to alarming reports,China is far from a workers state or a workers democracy no more than Ireland but Ireland is no longer a backward country and China remains largely medieval. 

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14.11.2021

A century later. Filial agency.

What do the following prove?

Allentown.Gary,Indiana.Flint, Michigan.

(Or,what a throwaway pair of words from Lenin concerning Social Democracy can tell us....)

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 Lenin talked about a movement in "leading strings" in the earliest years of the last century as he tried to shake off filial loyalties and the ties of agency when he entered his twenty-year period of isolation and alienation.

America is no longer tied by its " leading strings" to a mother who has taken her infant out for a stroll. Its founding fathers are long dead. They lived in an age of opportunity and growth. America's industry has closed. It is a society past its best in industrial terms,encumbered by private debt and burdened like all of the West by unrealistic expectations.

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America's future? Its legions of industrial dead? The words of a trade union doyenne!

Old Mother Jones words come to mind, "Remember the dead but fight like hell for the living".

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Uncle Joe says,

Forward! A second democratic revolution! A new 1776!

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Industry is just one side of the coin in terms of economic analysis and social wellbeing.

Modern society be it East or West is based not on Marx's belief that industry wins out over finance-it does not,ever-but on capital accumulation but in another of his notations, capital accumulation.

Old Adam Smith and his pin factory as the beginning of modern society,how does it hold up?

It holds up well BUT capitalism is based on the accumulation of capital not models of social hygiene as represented by the work ethic or the factory bell.

Society whether it be East or West is based not on a dichotomy between industry and finance but on the accumulation of Money and surplus labour power or value and it brooks no opposition from American Continentalism or industrialist of a nationalist or paternalist type who believes in jobs for the boys. We still have those types in our Continental hemisphere.

Change in Russia came from WITHIN its political parameters of communist,socialist and national democratic affiliates by legal means.

Change in the US has come from the self-expansion of capital i.e.from within the capitalist system. Its industry has been partially dispersed to other countries because of the workings of capitalism and they are best summed up by Marx in his book of the well-known title as "Accumulate! Accumulate! Accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets."

Deindustrialization? Asset stripping? Downskilling? The move from craft to factory? Centralisation of production? The move from jobbing to waged labour?

With a few misunderstandings,all discovered and analysed and recorded by The Old Mole,so.....

.....Go and read and don't come to me for a game plan for a democratic overhaul of China....

......the United States must have its own post-industrial democratic revolution...a democratic revolution of a new sort which shakes off the power of the Pentagon and US Army and paramilitary gangs such as ICE and the rednecks in the Immigration and Naturalisation Service and people writing political prosy about the decline of America in Washington and California.....

No 'play' about China then,rednecks. Go away and hang yourselves,to quote an old Irish refrain to those in Whitehall holding back democracy on this side of the Atlantic because change is more urgently needed in Europe than Asia.

The Asians and Chinese are getting on with their national development and change will arrive like all change,after great debate and careful consideration and proper preparation and NOT BEFORE ITS TIME.