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Latin America: What happened to the hope-inspiring 'sweet bird of youth' of Ernst Blo
Monday, March 07 @ 18:05:56 UTC
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By Franz J. T. Lee
Marcg 07, 2011
In the same way that a
sensitive, sensible human mind cannot for long tolerate the infernal,
hammering noises of modern 'music' that comes out of a myriad of
'blockbusters', shops, cars, cellphones, radios and TV apparatuses day
and night infesting even more the polluted air across the love forlorn
planet, similarly, with few exceptions, it hurts the very ear drums to
listen to the eternal, sterile, rattling and crackling noises which
generally accompany 'democratic' political gatherings and electoral
campaigns which are saturated with ossified, 'democratic', demagogic
slogans and ideological catch words. For example, on a world scale, the
following words are top favorites: 'humanitarian help', 'revolution',
'rogue states', 'society', 'failed societies', 'transition',
'socialism', 'change', the 'process', the 'new man', democracy and
peace. Most of these terms have lost all their original cognitive
connotations. Most of them have just become ideologically infiltrated
empty shells. The word 'ideology' itself is the best example of this
category. Without any liberatory destiny, such words and phrases are
whirling around in the enslaved brains of millions; simply like barren,
dry, crackling leaves in the raging storms of the bellicose corporate
typhoons. Consequently, under such trying circumstances, it is
well-nigh impossible to think profoundly, to create emancipatory theory.
Surely, many of us seriously
study the above concepts and are trying to fill them with transhistoric
emancipatory contents. However, the vast majority of peoples on a world
scale, in the raging 'war of ideas', are being bombarded with
alienating songs, are technologically violated by 'psychotic
dissociation', are bamboozled with subliminal messages, psychological
terror, 'cognitive dissonance', 'cognitive infiltration' and CIA
'wikileaks'.
In the end, we, the evergreen
youth and sempiternal students, are getting totally confused, we cannot
differentiate ideology from theory, practice from praxis anymore.
The modern youths and students
in Venezuela and elsewhere have an immense difficulty intellectually to
grasp philosophic terms like nature, society, labor, revolution,
socialism, capitalism, emancipation, praxis, peace and democracy. Here
daily we could witness the political danger of incorrect identification
of the class enemy and of imprecise conceptualization of
anti-capitalism, of socialism. In our university seminars or public
discussions theoretical reflection is deteriorating into 'learning by
rote' or in some cases of committing 'internet plagiarism', of 'drag
and drop' malpractices. This is not an exception to the rule, even a
contemporary German defense ministers could participate in such
illegal practices to obtain a much desired doctorate.
In the 20th century at the
height of the students' revolts and the campaigns against the Vietnam
War, apartheid in Southern Africa, Zionism in Israel and global
imperialism, the German Marxist philosopher of the 'principle of
hope', Ernst Bloch indicated that there is a radical change of the
epoch in the air, that is, currently the weltgeist and zeitgeist are
ushering in a new era, the New itself. Human alienating labor would
eventually be surpassed by natural emancipatory creativity, by human
creation; as such, according to Bloch, the divine myths and religious
chimeras would fade away, and a new epoch of accelerated unfettered
human creation would be dawning on the planetary horizon.
This is not wishful thinking;
in globalization already both the dialectical affirmation and the
negation of capitalism is in agony. Corporate capitalism is digging its
own global military tomb. As far as the proletarian 'permanent world
revolution' is concerned, we are living in the era of huge global class
struggles. Nonetheless, for the time being we have not been able to
launch a New International. However, in this 'transvolutionary' epoch
of space colonization and militarization, of 'geo- and
genetic-engineering, cloning, Tesla- and nano-technology, we should
prepare ourselves for many new cosmic surprises, for an exodus, for an
already raging global 'exvolution'. Why are the USA militarizing every
square meter of this planet? But, as living humanity, we are made of
cosmic stardust, of much sterner stuff than treachery, murder, avarice
and megalomania.
Furthermore, Bloch emphasized
that future hope for mankind is being born in the youth, in
youthfulness. The central question remains: Venezuela, Africa, what
happened to the hope-inspiring 'sweet bird of youth' of Ernst Bloch? Is
it already dropping dead from the 'chemtrails' infested skies of NATO?
What did the students and
youths of the 1960s know and have been studying diligently and
conscientiously?
Where are their thoughts and
acts today?
* Since decades already, are we
losing two whole generations of youths? Or is it just the calm before
the storm?
* And who is sowing the
transilluminating wind; is it the workers of the world?
* Where is the permanent world
revolution? The workers' international?
Hence, what have we, the youth
and students of the 21st century urgently to study in order to
understand what is happening in North Africa and the Middle East today?
Let us put this problem in transhistoric perspective.
Ever since the 19th century,
since the political victory of capitalism over feudalism in Europe as
the new dominant mode of destruction, many erudite scientific and
philosophic socialist scholars have seriously studied and unraveled the
objective, physical, exploitative essence of capitalist
vandalism, its subjective, alienating, social existence and its
barbarous, military immorality and mortality. Among the outstanding
socialist scholars are Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg,
Vladimir I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Eduardo Galeano, Mao Zedong, Kwame
Nkrumah, Ernest Mandel, Samir Amin et al, whose works are respected
across the globe, even by their most fierce liberal academic
adversaries. They identified the systemic internal tendential laws of
the bourgeois, democratic, capitalist revolution. With scientific
incision and philosophic precision they transilluminated the inexorable
terrorist warpath of imperialism towards globalization, that is,
towards global exploitation of all natural resources, a one world
fascist government, totalitarian militarization and the criminal
launching of Orwellian authoritarian body, thought and mind control,
and thus the total destruction of the thinking faculties of laboring
humanity.
Among the tendential laws of
the transhistoric development of capitalism, indicated above, and whose
veracity could be verified today more than ever before, are the brutal
competition, concentration, monopolization and the belligerent
destruction of capital. At this moment we experience the geometric
explosion of pauperization on a world scale, of hunger, poverty and
misery of billions especially in Africa, Asia and America. There is
nothing obsolete about Marxist praxis and theory. Socialism is the
dialectical Negation of Capitalism, is Non- or Anti-Capitalism; hence
Marxism will only become obsolete when capitalism itself will be fading
away into galactic conflagration, into cosmic entropy.
To know what is Marxism is to
know what is Capitalism, and vice versa. They are contradictory
opposites, two sides, the unity and contradiction of the very same
current historic process, of the capitalist revolution, - as was
explained by Marx and Engels in 1848 in their 'Manifesto of the
Communist Party' - that is, of globalization.
Very clearly we could
see today that globalization is the belligerent attempt of the
United States of America and their allies, spearheaded by NATO and all
its global military 'commands', to gain the final capitalist
politico-military victory, to complete the one and only bourgeois
capitalist democratic revolution on a world scale.
The only thing that could stop
this 'permanent world revolution' is to surpass it, to transcend it
with global human emancipation, with the creativity of billions, who
could create, could create a new world, the New Man, that is, Mother
Nature anew. This is a topic for another collective writing.
Nonetheless, what is our real,
true problem? Capitalism? Really? Or do we just want our 'privacy',
carpe diem, our 'peace', to have a job, to consume, to vegetate on the
immediate zero point of a wretched non-existence?
If this is not the case, well,
then in simple terms what is capitalism? What is it de facto for one
billion people in Africa?
In other writings we have
summarized the planetary contradictory quintessence of capitalist
production, of the imperialist process of globalization as follows:
* economic exploitation of
Nature and of physical human labor power;
* political domination by means
of the State machinery of the ruling classes or power elites;
* social discrimination, master
and slave relations, racism, apartheid, Zionism;
* militarization, world wars,
genocide, full spectrum dominance, 'peace'-keeping forces, Global
Commands, military humanism;
* alienation, religion,
ideology, destruction of human thinking and thought, hoaxes, lies,
'weakileaks', 'mal-education', disinformation of corporate controlled
mass media, ´war of ideas', psychological operations, 'cognitive
infiltration' of the enemy, body, mind and thought control, Global
Mental Holocaust.
If we would find any of these
attributes in any State or society on planet Earth, then we could be
sure that it is definitely caught up in the corporate pangs and
imperialist fangs of world capitalism. If we would know this, then we
could have an idea what is anti-capitalism, what is socialism.
Socialism is the negation of
the above capitalist affirmation, of its quintessence, it is the
dialectical opposite of capitalism.
In how far does the above
concern the workers of Africa, America or Venezuela?
Revolution, capitalist
revolution brought about contemporary globalized exploitation,
domination, discrimination, militarization and alienation. All over
everybody is seeing all kinds of revolutions. At the moment we all
speak about revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East. Tomorrow
we could have a revolution of Vatel in the frying pan; or a revolution
on the Moon or Mars.
What we do not know is that we
are so right. Even Marx confirmed what we are suspecting. We are living
in the epoch of accelerated capitalist world revolution, of
globalization. As Marx explained nothing has revolutionized human
production more than capitalism, than capitalist revolution; it is the
dynamo, the life wire of capital and power accumulation.
There are not rainbow or
colored revolutions, they are all different appearance forms of the
very one and only global capitalist revolution. Millions and millions
have died in the name of 'revolution' and still capitalism is
revolutionizing us out of existence.
To avoid an apocalyptic man
made cataclysm of mankind, it is of ultra-importance to investigate the
ideological phraseology which we are using and to replace it with
thoughtful concepts and theories for global, emancipatory, creative
praxis.
Who does not expect the
unexpected will never find the anticipatory New, never be the
emancipatory New.
http://www.franzlee.org.ve
franzjutta@cantv.net
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