Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "The Grayzone"
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When the political classes are polarized so are the economic relations.
Disapproval of Congress is 81%.
Happens to Americans that a poll will show 65% disapproval of Congress...still does not change Congress.
Congresses make it impossible to get anything done for these young republics.
Older, richer, republics love to spend when the spending enhances (strengthens) their rule.
Any other time spending is stringent, cheap. Austerity and Attrition are cardinal rules of republics.
There are too many small elites usurping the land to sell to foreign corporations a crop by the tons.
While the main body of the society are nearly 65% native handicraft industries tied to small scale farming are communities losing more of the land they farmed for thousands of years. Minority Rule would displace more of them into a proletariat for which the low level of industry the minority elites never developed in Peru could not absorb the surplus of free labor, or labor for sale, and off they go, looking for a better life up north. Fully disconnected from the land they enter the world of capitalism as free agents, prey for drug lords, slave traffickers and coyotes,--- waiting to snatch every cent from them only to die in the desert if they are not lucky enough to make it alive. I would say revolutions can not proceed with a stubborn minority holding it back,---the first step is a nullification of the Congress.
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Can't forget the Iraq War Veterans, so angry at the liberal establishment who at the time was Joe Biden put them in harms way using 9/11 for a call for freedom and liberty against Sadaam Hussien and liberate Iraq. Congress went along with it hook, line and sinker. They gave AlQueda a place they could fight Americans. The Vets came back destroyed, and used the only power they have to elect Trump, a spite vote against the liberal establishment. What did the left do? Nothing. What did the left do when these same vets showed up in Virginia armed to protest Northrum's gun laws on MLK day 2020? Nothing. Biden was then and now in the pocket of Lockheed. Grumman, GE, all the arms makers. He then became VP to Obama, hand picked by Obama to initiate another war, the war we are in today. The next group of Veterans sent to war are not going to come back because now they will be fighting entire nations in the Middle East. As for Trump, he is the wrong man for the job, wrong, wrong, wrong. Only Bernie opposed the Iraq War.
Vote Bernie if you are going to vote, its the last chance to restore America back to its original roots of American progressivism.
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@rohanmarkjay Yes, i know...isn’t a spectacle of the bourgeoisie (US multinational corporations) to react to what it fears the most,---Bolshevism, the parlor variety it lives with and the Russian experiment it cannot live with.
The problems and conflicts of today are necessary for the realization of goals established in 1919 or rooted therein. There at the conference at Versailles the European bourgeoisie of the dominant colonial empires, already industrialized made plans for the century and thereafter in perpetuity. The Plan: Eradicate any opposition to nationalization and expand capitalism. Pretty simple mission. This coming from the experiences with the Paris Commune in France; the revolutions of Germany; culminating with the Russian Revolution and decade later the Chinese Revolution, the world colonial bourgeoisie was surrounded by communism taking hold in societies still in their peasant pre-capitalist formations and a lot of the blood relations were expropriated by the masses. Contempt for the masses was forever cemented in the breast of the bourgeoisie. They want to recover that missed opportunity Bolshevism in their view, robbed.
The conference observed this fact and hitherto the more anti-communist a ruler could be the more support they got. US General Austin is in the Philippines concretizing plans for military support to the son of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippines is on track to becoming a sentry state for the US follows the plan of 1919 perfectly, we can expect nothing short or long of this coming from the US State Department by way of foreign policy. The Good Neighbor days are history the US ensures the pre-capitalist societies in the East get industrialized by America’s related bourgeoisie of Europe’s bourgeoisie. Of course this means the American working class is no longer industrialized. American society becomes a society of a lot of lawyers and a lot of hamburger flippers who consume mass quantities of products made in other countries.
Objectively, Russia was first to model industrialization for pre-capitalist societies to follow, the split in communist movements hinged on supporting bourgeoise wars for the west. But for the pre-capitalist societies in the East the colonial empires not coming in and industrializing their countries for themselves was appealing. Africa, India and Russia are intimate and the US gets a cold shoulder. A missed opportunity that would employ American workers for decades and generations given we are talking about markets of billions of people. That’s big. You can skip over capitalism and go straight into socialism was Lenin’s April Thesis that contested the Marxian linear growth of capitalism before they can develop socialism. Western bourgeoisie takes this very seriously.
Anyway, there can be no progress without deviation is a law of nature and we are not genetically modified people yet.
Bearbock must have an encounter with Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution, hidden in the family tree,---that is connected to 1919 somehow...I do not know her family history. Russophobia is a real phobia. It could be purely ideological as in the US or materially and biologically relatable in the offspring of the bourgeoisie as in Europe.
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I recall a NY Times article , Monday, October 29,1979: Decline in Productivity in the US, spurs intense debate and study...the point is, productivity in the US in 2025 has made strides. This comes from the last 50 years of lengthening the working day and shortening the necessary portion of the workday that productivity measured by its value creation is high. If you were to get into the mind of Musk or Bezos, they worry less about losing their power to workers working more than the work time needed to keep them on a payroll as a workforce; Musk and Bezos do not care if the value their workers create is greater than the value Bezos and Musk pays them, or their workers give them more value in return than the value their wages can buy. The main concern and this is what the article is about, reveals the logic of capitalism, is the amount of use-values the workers consume during the workday must always be smaller than the amount of use-values the workers create. A surplus must always be left over. Were the workers to work only for their own self-consumption, there would be nothing left over. The last 50 years, the continuous testing and observation, medication and indoctrination , not to mention study after study on working people for the modification of their work behavior was to lengthen the working day and shorten the necessary portion of the working day with technology, to transform money into capital. What a waste to have thrown so much capital resources into improving the ways a 1% can accumulate capital. If youtubers do not produce three videos a week they lose monetization and, therefore, income modifies the content the youtuber brings to the audience. Were the youtubers to produce content they want they would not produce a surplus of videos in order to monetize their product. So forget about the social conspiratorial analysis of capitalism and use the science and logic of capitalism against itself is the lesson here.
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Venezuelan migrants in the US are the innocent victims in this armed struggle the US State Department pushes in Latin America and at Venezuela in particular. Ukrainian people are innocent victims of an armed struggle the US State Department pushes against Russia. America is the cause of the world moving in a multipolar direction that America cannot do anything to stop, except total nuclear annihilation. Given the US is the only nation to have actually used nuclear weapons on another nation the world arms itself to the teeth with nukes to deter and contain aggressive US policy.
US sanctions on the oil sector of the V’s economy is aimed to slow down the growth of Venezuela. The employees in the State Department do the work of pre-occupying the agenda, so that workers leaders, trade union leaders, do not get wise to the schemes to make powerless Venezuela’s economy, fragmented and atomized, isolated, deprive the working people of Venezuela of their own gross national product, and then set up the situation to blame it all on the person they don’t like, childish, but it works to get over on a working class stuck in an individual mode of thought, in turn, this policy creates and provides the purpose, need and objective reasons for a revolution. I would imagine officials in the State Department are aware the potential for a true working class revolt if they are seen connected to events, so they must operate covertly through surveillance, secrecy, detection and deterrence, and have the media evoke fear, use drug addiction and conspiracy theories by secret societies and police to keep a working class fragmented, racist among its own class ranks, sexist among its own men and women and families, and thinking false concepts to keep the working class from politicizing its own existence. What a job to be a state department official but it is easy to do when you are enclosed and tucked away from society and never see the negative social and mortal effects of the work they do as an official. People in the beltway are desensitized human beings through their own isolation from society.
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The only persons of the same generation and of the right wing who has not been on the J Dore show is Joe Rogan, Musk, Trump Jr., brothers.
Not many prominent leftists have appeared on the Greyzone. There are 15,000 coordinated and organized right wing radio stations beamed straight into where the working class spends four hours a day, in their cars, in America,--- and of the Podcasters there are a zillion people with their own show and their own opinion, fragmented podcastors can only be seen on a cell phone or some other portable device, ----not united that would bring their audience to a more critical analysis of social reality in America. The right wing has a captured audience and the left has a fragmented audience. Additionally, the devices themselves, i.e., cell phones, laptops, absorbed the free time of workers in part, by their own volition ( they will develop scoliosis of the spine in their older age) in part by the will imposed on them by their employers. This is partially the reason the left lost the election. Apart from the fact that the Far Left by not galvanizing their audiences into electronic, panels, conferences, task groups, zoom with Latin American and European movements, allowed the centrists in their party to decide all the working class issues in the party for them. A democratic left that was cheated of a primary as irony would have it.
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