These are some of the issues and principles on which the Trotskyist leadership must be built upon:
- The Crisis in capitalism on a world basis
- The emergence of Fascism in the form of the Muslim Brotherhood.
- The close alliance which barack Obama and the whole of the Democratic Party organised with the Muslim Jihad.
- The severe threat to Israel from the Islamic Jihad in the form of the Iranian Bomb and the growing threat of Nuclear Proliferation from all Islamist countries surrounding Israel.
- The need for a new leadership to lead against these threats.
Let us take these one by one
- The Crisis in capitalism on a world basis
Capitalism is a system which is based on the drive for profit and for nothing else. If it does not make a profit it has to be scrapped.
Of course this brute reality of capitalism is often hidden by sweet words but strip capitalism to its basics…the only interest is profit.
Science can go some of the way in this system but it is very limited.
In fact, under capitalism science can have a very negative effect. For example a recent BBC Report has pointed out that the growth of technology in many industries, for example the car industry in Detroit, has meant the working man is now more and more redundant. What this modern industry needs is highly qualified people who look after the computers, and the robot machines do the work. The cars are produced very effectively but more and more without workers. That should be a boon, reducing fatigue and boredom in humans, but it is only suffering for people and their families.
And this does matter! The American Election, all agree, is going to be decided by the economy.
- The emergence of Fascism in the form of the Muslim Brotherhood.
There is a great piece by Leon Trotsky in which he imagines the capitalist system as an electrical circuit say in a house. There are junction boxes in the circuit. These are the countries in the capitalist system world wide. As pressure builds up (the capitalist crisis) the junction boxes blow a fuse. And the blowing of a fuse is the same as a transition to Fascism where the old “democratic” forms of government are no longer “strong” enough. That is beginning to happen and will intesnify. This actually leads on to the next point which has mystified most people, why capitalist governments, like that of Obama in the past 4 years, have united with Islam.
- The close alliance which Barack Obama and the whole of the Democratic Party organised with the Muslim Jihad.
There are deep problems within the world capitalist system. The overthrow of Stalinist Soviet regimes, long the wish of capitalists everywhere, has only intensified national inter-intercompetition, tend to lead to war.
The last 4 years of the Obama government have been momentous and alarming.
It was the June 2009 speech of Obama to the Conference in Cairo which did most damage. In the speech Obama was addressing the Islamic World. Even though they were illegal in the country Obama was visiting as a guest Obama invited the Muslim Brotherhood to his speech.
This was the thumbs down for mubarak the ruler for 30 years, and the thumbs up for the Islamic Jihad.
It was Fascism on TWO levels. Firstly Obama intervened like a Fascist on the International Scene. He truly was rminiscent of Hitler or Mussolini. Secondly the Muslim brotherhood founned by Banna and added to by Qutb was Islamic Fascist.
Was Obama really thinking that he was helping “democracy” by helping the Muslim Brotherhood on that fateful day? That is very unlikely. More likely is that America, with its huge knowledge gathering ssources, knew very well the force (Fascism) it was unleashing
- The severe threat to Israel from the Islamic Jihad in the form of the Iranian Bomb and the growing threat of Nuclear Proliferation from all Islamist countries surrounding Israel.
For the past 10 years Israel has been threatened with destruction almost every week from official sources in the Iranian Government, with its henchmen in Hamas and Hisbullah also making such threats.
I believe that Holocaust Denial is the main form of Antisemitism in the “democratic” capitalist west, especially in Europe.
If a European can by termed not Antisemitic then he has to reason something like this: “This people the Jews were nearly liquidated in the Nazi Holocaust. Fifty years later the same language is coming from Iran, along with Holocaust denial. Surely then these threats have to be taken very seriously.”
Are they taken seriously? Obviously no! Or Iran would have been stopped by Europe. Also you somethies hear “Oh but Israel has the Bomb so Iran has the same right”. That is Antisemitism right there!
The reason Israel got the Nuclear bomb was rooted in the Holocaust and who could begrudge them. The reason Iran wants the Nuclear Bomb is to make effective its threats.
- The need for a new leadership to lead against these threats.
These are not small threats. This political situation is not common or usual. This is an extraordinary situation. This requires extraordinary attention to the major “detail” of leadership. That is all we are saying.
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