On deconstructing the rhetoric in Tucson…

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Maintaining the Economic Disparity by Handling the Working Class

—in which the State/investor-class regime co-opts a child’s death…

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Last year, while speaking near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Ralph Nader offered the irrefutable observation that “there was a seamless transition from Bush to Obama.” In that vein, another journalist has observed that Obama is enacting Bush’s third term. Both accurate, both incontrovertible statements.

With the connivance of the State, i.e., the Right and near-Right (both parties are corporatist),  there is, in fact, a war being waged here at home—that being economic warfare as gross incivility—to maintain the investor-class-configured status quo by an elite coterie of five per cent, consisting of rentiers, their consiglieri, the Fortune 500 CEOs and their major stockholders, and bankers, as the never-to-be-sated fund overlords. The brazen manipulation of the non-participant ninety-five per cent of American labor is seen most recently in the utility found in a child’s senseless death, a death co-opted in the service of manufacturing the consent of the “bewildered herd.”

quem dii volunt perdere dementant prius…

The investor class/State-induced inequity here at Empire is so inherently tenuous—by virtue of the purposefully volatile nature of market activity—that the status quo complex must be finessed on an ongoing basis via MSM duplicity, disinformation, etc., in order to maintain momentum. Hence, the grotesque contrivance at Tucson lamenting the death of a child at the very same moment that Obama’s murderous military programme—in only one of a myriad of examples: Afghanistan—effects the deaths of scores of children struck down by drone shock-and-awe of, e.g., wedding parties! A pipeline connecting vast natural gas resources in the Caspian Sea to India^1,2 compels ongoing war crimes conducted in plain sight: this is merely our 235-year-old narrative of aggression and acquisition writ large in the era of Late (i.e., finance) Capital.

That is, we are witnessing the death throes of an ostensible “experiment” in democracy gone terribly—but quite predictably—awry. The Greek-tragedian notion of “whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” has relevance to the State as well, as Empire proceeds blithely in its final horrific turns of global bloodletting and rapine. It is nothing short of evil run rampant, and the reckoning, too, will be appalling.

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And, what of the identity on the Right, that largely working-class collective of enraged, primarily non-ethnic, whites seeking redress of grievances? Owing to an abiding mistrust—and fear—of “the other” they gather to effect a catharsis of sorts (an unloading of diffuse anxiety and rage—a temporary relief, to be sure, but one clung to en masse ) via corporate-owned-media demagogues as spokesmodels who further cultivate the reactionary themes of American exceptionalism, racialism, etc. That is, they are less a collective of informed adults confronting economic disparity at its source than a haphazard mob seeking reassurances through prejudice and commonly held biases. They are a latent element now actualized, and also valued, of course, for their utility in sustaining the privilege, entitlements, etc., for Empire’s opulent minority. In return for this essential service individual and collective hysteria, angst, etc., was subdued—until the horrific events in Tucson.

The collective defect of the Right is betrayed through only one dimension of their “ethic”: they quite openly have chosen to project their animus upon a segment of humanity, versus the only appropriate focus of indignation: investor-class behaviour. It is this dire malignancy that identifies them as merely another face of the Power/money elite: both traffic in exclusion. The saving grace of the anarcho-syndicalist Left will be precisely the opposite: anarchism valorizes the individual considered via inclusive community. From Charles Péguy:

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“The revolution will be moral or it will not be revolution.”

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Charles Péguy

¹Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAPI): “Due to increasing instability, the project has essentially stalled; construction of the Turkmen part was supposed to start in 2006, but the overall feasibility is questionable since the southern part of the Afghan section runs through territory which continues to be under de facto Taliban control” [Wiki].

²Engelhardt/Escobar: “Welcome to Pipelineistan”: “In the ever-shifting New Great Game in Eurasia, a key question — why Afghanistan matters — is simply not part of the discussion in the United States. (Hint: It has nothing to do with the liberation of Afghan women.) In part, this is because the idea that energy and Afghanistan might have anything in common is verboten. And yet, rest assured, nothing of significance takes place in Eurasia without an energy angle. In the case of Afghanistan, keep in mind that Central and South Asia have been considered by American strategists crucial places to plant the flag; and once the Soviet Union collapsed, control of the energy-rich former Soviet republics in the region was quickly seen as essential to future U.S. global power” [Escobar].

the rhizome model

anarcho-syndicalism

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