Obama's rhetoric about democracy, human rights, women's rights, and peace are utter bullshit, and a cover for exploitation, oppression, and war and the devastation of whole societies when that serves the U.S. empire.
The "core interests" that Obama proclaimed in his speech are diametrically opposed to the interests of humanity. And that is true despite the fact that he can point to smaller-scale exploiters and oppressors and call out their crimes (while ignoring the crimes of the U.S. which are vastly greater in scale). The interests of humanity, the world over, lie in getting rid of empires, getting rid of the oppressive institutions on which they rest, and getting rid of the choking webs of exploitation that undergird it all. And the interests of humanity demand, now, the exposure of not only the lies but the ways we are trained to think which justify and excuse all this" and the struggle, right now, against every move to defend, reinforce and expand those empires.
That is why it is not just a "nice idea," but represents the actual interests of the people of the world to insist: Stop thinking like Americans, and start thinking about humanity!
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A Challenge
In his UN address President Obama stated, "Now, the notion of American empire may be useful propaganda, but it isn't borne out by America's current policy or by public opinion. "
But the following two sentences by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, U.S.A., actually capture the essential nature of the U.S. economic-political system and what it does in the world:
"The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures to enforce that capitalism-imperialism.
"What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism."
We challenge any reader who thinks Obama is right and Bob Avakian is wrong to make their case, citing specific examples--and readers who agree with Avakian to state why, again citing specific examples.
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