"Political slogans" from the established party claiming to be a party of the people, Luxemburg argues, are also suspect. We see today that the "two-party" system is but one party with two faces under corporate rule. The Democratic Party, "of the people," as it claims, is "a leadership in a great historical crisis," where the "technical leadership" provides the political slogan. Give us your fives and tens and then vote! In turn, "Change You Can Believe In" is answered by the people in struggle, shouting in unison, "We are the 99%!" We make the change!
Instead of "national defense" leading to more "national wars," "fratricidal wars," Luxemburg exclaims that the proletariat "of all lands" will come to recognize "that she or he shares "one and the same interests." The struggle here for affordable and decent housing, for affordable and meaningful education, for health care for all, the struggle for Palestinian rights and homeland, the struggle for clean water, food uncontaminated by corporate pesticides or uncorrupted by their seeds, for an end to totalitarian and to the aggression of so-called "democratic" nations of the willing becomes The Struggle against imperialism--and for humanity and the survival of Mother Earth.
The capitalist state of society is doubtless a historic necessity, but so also is the result of the working class against it. Capital is a historic necessity, but in the same measure is its grave digger, the socialist proletariat"
Our necessity receives its justification with the moment when the capitalist class ceases to be the bearer of historic progress, when it becomes a hindrance, a danger, to the future development of society.
What else is there if we do not vote?
Our time is now!
[1] Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, 2008).
[2] "Southern politicians capitalized on the antialien hysteria to further their own down-home racist agendas-- Germany and the USSR were totalitarian states and in both, "leaders told you how to think about minorities." The Nazis tried to eliminate them while the Communist "despicably tried to elevate them." The U.S. South had its own traditions and states' rights--and tacit comparisons of "Hitler, Stalin and Ulysses S. Grant" (Gilmore, Defying Dixie).
[3] The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, editors Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson, 2004.
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