[lbo-talk] obama-puts-wall-streets-worst-nightmare-in-charge-of-sec/

[Wojtek S]

Yeah, he is doing just about what is possible in the US plutocracy,
although few on this list want to admit it.  You and I are probably
the only two lbo-sters who recognize the fact that a centrist
politician like Obama is the best the left-of-the center in this
country can realistically hope for.  If by some odd chance a social
democrat got elected, a fascist putsch or an assassination would
likely follow.

This brings me to a broader point that it is not possible to have
"unqualified" politically neutral democracy.  You can have either a
social democracy (like in Scandinavia) when the "99 percent"
decisively put the business class under the boot, or a plutocracy
(like in the US) when the business class puts the "99 percent" under
the boot using elections as a subterfuge.  These are the only two
relatively stable outcomes that have some semblance to what is
commonly understood as "democracy."  A politically neutral democracy
in a class society is merely a temporary standoff that is inherently
unstable and will likely result in a fascist putsch, as the cases of
Weimar republic or Chile demonstrate.  Or to put it differently,
plutocracy and fascism are the only political outcomes that the
business class can produce on its own.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."