CHINA, CLINTON AND CUBA: Administrating the New World Order
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SOCGRAD MINI-LECTURES
President Clinton has recieved great acclaim for his visit to China while his mean-spirited policies in Cuba go unmentioned by both media and liberal democrats. At home, the miserable sexual exploits of Clinton are pushed aside by feminists and liberals alike.
My own reading of Clinton and his presidency might be a bit different from most...in my view, Clinton recieves his acclaim not for being President of the United States but rather for being President of the New World Order...Tony Blair seems to function as his Chief of Staff in rounding up support in Europe for policies which are,ultimately, destructive of the USA as a nation-state.
Clinton, as President of the Global World Order, has as his first task, the liberalization of markets around the world. Freedom to move capital, jobs, profits, and commodities from any place in the world to any other place in the world, not excluding Rwanda, is the neo-liberal agenda. The false peace of corporate peace is his second great duty as PGWO.
Clinton, as President of the USA, has only to keep the domestic peace and to see that the Dow-Jones index continues to increase. What he does in his spare time is a matter between him, Hilary and his God...if both turn a blind eye, they must have good reason.
China, with 1/5 of the population of the world, sits as a great prize for national capitalists in the USA who want to be first in that market...fast foods, soft drinks, high-tech electronics, cinema and many other goods and services are in great demand by workers in that expanding economy.
China, with some 600 million workers longing to be employed by export companies, sit as grand prize in the labor market game. Why pay auto workers in Flint an average of $18/hour when management can pay Chinese workers and average of $18/week for the same labor?
Clinton, as CEO of the Big Seven, has as his incumbent duty [as did Bush, Reagan and Nixon before him---Carter was a political error], making the world safe for some 3000 Trans-national Corporations... of which some 500 of the largest are based [for now] in the USA.
Clinton, as President of the USA and President of the New World Order, is well-located to keep the peace. He is Commander-in-Chief of the Only Super Power in the world...and can deploy it whereever corporate markets, raw materials, profits and safe passage are threatened. High tech military equipment monitor every square inch, listen to every electronic communication, target every potential enemy and subvert every populist government hostile to the New World Order...with the assiduous aid of the World bank, The International Monetary Fund and the CIA with its 'new mission.'
What if jobs are lost in the USA...the stock market thrives. What if local industry is ruined...inflation is low. What if the tax base erodes... cable television brings ever more movies. What if schools deteriorate... market share increases for export firms. What if Conservatives hate the goverment and Right Wing Militias stock pile weapons and food...money moves around the world in cyberspace. What if the women vulnerable to Clinton fall victim to his charm and pride of place...bourgeois feminism thrives.
There have been two presidents who will be memorialized in the 22nd Century if the Global World Economy can remain a Free-Market Economy; Richard Milhous Nixon and William MiddleName Clinton. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and FDR were national heroes...only that and little more. Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Bush and Carter were sort of tran-sitional presidents...only that and little more; in spite of efforts to memorialize Kennedy, he was the lesser of all these in terms of either national or transnational governance.
Kennedy will be remembered as Monsignor to Eisenhower; to his interrupted plans to subvert Cuba and to save Vietnam from populist cum socialist politics.
Cuba is interesting. It is very difficult to be a socialist country in a Capitalist World Economy...Clinton's continuation of the Eisenhower/Kennedy efforts to subvert Cuba is rational in terms of the security needs of the New World Order. Cuba has made valient effort to serve as model for 3rd World nation-states; its progress in health care, in education, in agricultural diversification, in gender and racial relations are exemplar to progressives in Latin America and to some extent, in Africa.
But it is hard to be a small socialist country in a large Globalized Market Economy...hard currency is needed, high tech is needed, medical supplies and equipment are needed, industrial and transportation is needed. Being client to the defunct SSSR brings special problems; replacement of machines and vehicles is essential since parts for Soviet equipment are hard to come by with all the troubles in the old Soviet Bloc.
Of the 180 so nation-states in the world, most keep grudging compliance to the US Blockade.Without Clinton and the Cuban Blockade, Cuba would still have many problems but Clinton's keeping of the Eisenhower/Kennedy Cuban policy is succeeding...
Cuba is beginning to adapt to market dynamics...recent issues of Granma promote investment and vacation in Cuba. The ugly faces of Tourism have begun to subvert 'national character' by which is meant socialist consciousness and socialist relations. Young men and young women prostitute themselves by the hundreds in Havana...while Castro and his government turn a blind eye...hard currency is hard currency even if young people, the beautiful young people of Cuba are degraded.
So...Hail to the Chief if you must; celebrate the 4th of July if you must; turn a blind eye to Monica Lewinski and to Cuba if you must but know that History will not...unless Clinton becomes George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to the New World Order in the 22nd Century. Meantime, I will not. TR Young, Editor, FROM THE LEFT