In
the political system known as corporatism the government and top
corporate leaders are in effect a tight kickback and support unit
steering profit, power, and control unto an elite that owns the
corporations. It is sometimes challenging to discern the nature of
the beast dominating the global financial and power networks when it
is above so many billions of comparatively unempowered people.
When
the cold war ended former Soviet leaders Yuri Andropov’s political
protégé Mikhail Gorbachev was left without a political portfolio to
manage. Lenin’s dream of an ideal dictatorship of the proletariat
seemed to collapse with the withdrawal of Soviet troops from East
Germany in December 1988. The International monetary fund that met in
Berlin that year would not recognize the financial policies of the
west in the Obama years as credible. With vast issuance of free loans
to big banks and financial bailouts of failed financial and even
automotive firms inflation has still been held down. How was that
possible?
It
seems as if the comparatively low unemployment rate in the U.S.A. of
4.9% reached during the Obama administration following the 2008
financial collapse and its following high unemployment rate has been
accomplished through stopping the increase of the workforce overall
and retiring or putting on government programs surplus labor for who
no jobs in the private sector are available. Direct federal state and
local government employment and other government offices along with
the nearly 50% of Americans (I believe that’s the number) on some
sort of means-tested government program and/or social security is
possible and even temporally sustainable if p0eople are willing to
work on an annual basis for about half the minimum wage averaged over
the theoretical ordinary 2000 hour work year.
Corporatism
silences political speech of its executives and employees. So does
government for all practical purposes. How many government employees
can loudly ask for cutting the size of government? What corporate
execs can agitate for higher corporate taxes? How many oil industry
workers can demand transition to purely electric cars to curt down
global warming caused in part from automobile exhaust?
A
dictatorship of the proletariat wherein each receives according to
his need-and you just might find that if you try some time you can
get what you need even if it isn’t what you want- and produces
according to his ability, and wherein the majority are uncreative
consumers concerned most about being well-adjusted lizards in a herd
of lizards slithering about in a cluster f ck without moral
concerns-just might be the actualized ideal dictatorship of the
proletariat under supervision of the 1%.
That
was the point of this essay-to ask if the evolving New World Order
isn’t headed towards an unAmerican society without a regard for
individualism and independence, creativity or invention, moving
instead toward actualizing the corporate-communist synthesis of a
controlling dictatorship of the proletariat as the global shop
foreman.
Old
categories of political economy from the cold war era are misleading
tools for accurate analysis of current political morphophology.
Computer networked communications have transformed the ownership and
location phenomena of ownership and management as wealth as
production and consumption classes. Preferred network insider
locations snare wealth through every franchise outlet.
The
dictatorship of the proletariat should be attractive political
direction for the masses of former affirmative action classes to be
drawn towards perhaps mislabeled as a new democratic majority. It is
remarkable that each major American party may support the trend as it
reinforces corporate profits with a majority of consumers vaguely
contented.