Working people lose their social dignity and status as inequality and inequity are rampant. Their futures have been dimmed by meritocratic competitions. The cover of the U.S. capitalist democracy has been blown up wide open by the unforgiving class struggles. They will strive hard against all kinds of difficulties making preparations for their ineluctable victory. A new democratic revolution is the only viable approach in the first-world countries.
Rai 01-06 Why has the World been Awash with Socialism-Phobia for so Long and Wide-spread? The Coming of a New Democratic Revolution Part 4 (End of the serial article)
Revolutions, big or small always have ebbs and flows, rise and fall, success and failure as well as restoration and anti-restoration stages. Class struggles have their own law and pattern regularities. Don't dispair of the socialist revolution.
Although the second article was written more than six years ago, its points of discussions were nonetheless valid even today. Two years from now, Donald Trump will likely try hard to get his “usurped” POTUS back. A Hilary Clinton substitute like Joe Biden, etc., will again be defeated just as in 2016. Its points of predictions, on the other hand, remain to be seen.
Capitalism as a social system has been greatly weakened not only by its own makings, but also by great awakenings of the working class, to wit, the Jan 6, 2021 uprising and the second civil war in the making.
Friends who are concerned about the four major crises in the current capitalist era, the loss of renewable energy to COG, and the exploitation of working people by high-tech hegemony are welcome to watch it.[https://www.nytimes.com/interact ... html?smid=url-share is questionable because of its rejection of socialism out of hand as the only cure for the climate change problem. ]
Anyone who thinks my assessment of capitalism is too political to be valid should browse the website Lewis Lapham: Can America Survive the Rule of a “Stupified Plutocracy”? Oct 24, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM20eUDP6GE
As the saying goes: “No two tigers can share one mountain,” can the U.S. share the capitalist foothold with some new-rich countries that stumbled into success through serendipity?
The whole capitalist era obstinately confronted by its own glorious past that cannot continue because of the four catastrophes is about to end it for good.
The critical bottlenecks facing capitalism have nothing to do with external forces; they are purely self-inflicted. Consequently, the system itself is responsible for removals of the stumbling blocks, or better, for removals of their root causes. The internal contradictions dictate the fate of capitalism.
Since mainstream economists as an apologist opinion-leader class have been at a loss to save the system from the danger of demise, now it’s the people’s duty as well as their privilege to take the solution of these problems into their own hands.
Democratic revolution means seizing major portion of the political power from, and sharing the economic power with, capital, the king, by the people. Without the political power, people’s new democratic revolution is empty; with it people can subjugate capital to serve the whole society and never again only the 1%.
Two articles combined as one has been published on March 29, 2022 at URL: Video: https://youtu.be/EZTyNhmdXhU
Display time: 00:25:31. Two articles.
Rai 01-04 Is It the Best and Also the Worst Time? The Coming of a New Democratic Revolution - Part 2
If the revolutionary line seeps into every nook and cranny, Putin will be replaced not by another capitalist but by a tried-and-true Lenin-Stalinist. This will also hold true of SCP-controlled China, i.e., Xi Jinping will be replaced by a tried-and-true Maoist and not by another misbegotten capitalist-roader-establishment such as Deng Xiaoping – the world’s most dangerous con man.
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The truth of the matter is socialism, just as any other doctrine, is not stationary but progressive; its strategic development is the result of class struggle over the years involving hundreds of millions of people all over the world, whose power of recall and replacement of the leadership never materialized until China’s Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s, by then it was too late to rescue socialism from sudden change of properties. After the two major and pioneering socialist countries – the former Soviet Union of Russia in the 1950s and the People’s Republic of China in the 1980s – were defeated by their own political elite when under the besiegement of the international monopoly capitalism, socialism as viewed and taught by Karl Marx based on, among others, French socialism combined with French revolutionary doctrines has failed to sustain its viability. The working classes of both countries lost power to the elite who henceforth restored capitalism for a long time afterward without essential change. Had Marx or Lenin witnessed the battle, what could either of them do to salvage the fiasco situation?
March 13, 2022. Rai 01-03 Great Chaos in the World Achieves Great Rule in the World. A worldwide antiwar movement will be the only means to stop it for now. The Coming of a New Democratic Revolution (this is the first of four parts) will be discussed in the next as to why, how and for whom. Total time for watching the show is about 18 minutes. Two articles are Included.
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February 27th, 2022. Rai 01-02. On the Russian-Ukrainian War. (In English)
Mark Wain 02-27-2022
Video: https://youtu.be/HcMNkp1qvqM
What's the nature of the Russian-Ukrainian War? Is there a demarcation that’s sacred and historically unshakable to such a degree that only one side is to be considered the invader, and the other a completely innocent “aggresse”?