Friday, October 10, 2008
Obama Offers Facelift for U.S. Imperialism - Break with the Democrats! (For a Revolutionary Workers Party!)
DISCLAIMER: I have no agreement with the Revolutionary Workers Party at all. They are radical socialists who would kill you, me, Democrats, Republicans, Constitutionalists, and even other socialists if they came to power. But it is interesting to see their opposition to Barack Obama:
"To the U.S. rulers, Obama, the son of a Kenyan man and a white American woman, is an acceptable choice for president because he would refurbish the tattered image of U.S. imperialism. Obama serves as a very powerful propaganda weapon for the bourgeoisie, telling black people and the oppressed to shut up and stop complaining, because, you see, 'the American dream' works! Former Bush supporter and former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan pointed out in promoting Obama: 'What does he offer? First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial—it’s central to an effective war strategy' (Atlantic Monthly, December 2007). "
"To the U.S. rulers, Obama, the son of a Kenyan man and a white American woman, is an acceptable choice for president because he would refurbish the tattered image of U.S. imperialism. Obama serves as a very powerful propaganda weapon for the bourgeoisie, telling black people and the oppressed to shut up and stop complaining, because, you see, 'the American dream' works! Former Bush supporter and former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan pointed out in promoting Obama: 'What does he offer? First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial—it’s central to an effective war strategy' (Atlantic Monthly, December 2007). "