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Class Struggle 105 Apritjune 2013 BRIEFS John Key: US Super Spy NACTS are comprador capitalists for US imperialism That means they are the agents of US business taking a small share for their ‘governance’. Selling assets, cutting social spending, facilitating FOI in land, services and industry etc all facilitate the growing foreign ownership of NZ. As happens in other colonies or semi- colonies (‘banana” or ‘milkpowder’ republics) there is a rapid rise in inequality and mass discontent among the poor. One of the functions of the comprador agents is to impose a state order that represses any resistance to these colonial policies. The NACTS under John Key are unapologetic about this. They actually brag about it. Hence the new GCSB law that empowers these spies already tied to the FBI and CIA to spy on NZ citizens, is part of that repressive function. This law retrospectively makes legal the illegal spying on 85 NZ. citizens over many years. The NACTS are caught with their pants down breaking national and international laws to rip off more profits Hence the new Anadarko law that is designed to stop any protests against oil and gas exploration on the high sea. We say abolish all the spies along with the bosses? state. We are for overthrowing the capitalist state and replacing it with a ‘Workers’ State’ that gets rid of capitalist exploitation and oppression Socialise Our Assets! “Mum & Dad investors”: yeah right!? Socialise our assets. The statistics about who bought into “Might River Power” give us more information about who is, or wants to be the capitalist class of NZ than anything else. The National party lies / propaganda that this sale would be to “mum & dad investors” was exposed as a lie, Only 3% of NZ population bought shares. The very rich were the main investors; half of available shares were bought by 0.3% of the population; a capitalist elite of just 400 ‘entities? (companies, trusts, investment institutions) bought 10% of the available shares. The National -Act-Maori party sell off to their “mates”, the capitalist class, has been exposed. The (49%) ownership has been transferred from all NZ (in the state) to a capitalist elite. While the government claims that they retain control with 51% ownership - the control is through a mixed board, where the state appointments have been capitalist representatives for years anyway. Last our issue, Class Struggle called for the occupation and expropriation of “Mighty River Power” (and any other of our assets that have been sold), with no compensation to the “buyers”. \Ne took this to the marchers against the asset sales on 28th April and itwas overwhelmingly warmly received. And given the above statistics about the buyers, it is proven to be the correct approach - the sale has been a transfer of wealth / property ownership from all NZ to a capitalist elite - and a few who hope to join that elite Read “Socialise our assets!” Class Struggle Pamphlet Paying Bosses our Wages The Misery of social underdevelopment (Ministry of social development / WINZ) is requesting job placement providers (NGOs - companies, trusts, etc) that play the role of getting mentally unwell people into jobs line up for new contracts. These contracts reveal what the state will pay these private job placers (capitalists, or NGOs) - for placing a mental health consumer and keaping them in a job for 6 months or a year. Bosses can get up to $10,000 a year for employing former sickness or invalid beneficiaries for 30hrs or more a week. Sure work is a good thing - we need jobs that are not degrading to our mental health, jobs that are real work, and that pay a living wage, not a slave system of enforced labour for those who are not fit for work, Feeding the Kids Is this “better than nothing”? The pathetic social democrats hang around John Keys bandwagon of boosting corporate feeding Kick Start. The point is that there was and is not “nothing” as lots of schools already feed their needy kids, The Principle of Mangere Primary refused to go along with Key's patronising stunt. So exactly what quantity and quality is Key’s little stunt going to deliver? The political parties that are promising to feed the kids should be doing it via the existing setups in school and promoting it where it is lacking, Not waiting for the election. What better way to activate the 800,000 non-voters turned off by Labour's patronising of the poor last time Key has cut Kick Start from out of feeding to give Santarium and Fonterra a duopoly.So the kids are getting hooked on servility to corporate charity rather, than community self-reliance. When interviewed on TV3, lots of the kids parroted the NACT line, no food in the house. The big example on TV3 was a Mt Roskill School which has already been feeding kids breakfast for 6 years, Nothing to do with Key's patronising stunt. Class Struggle 105 Apritjune 2013 In fact the neo-liberal hard right are pissed off with Key for intervening in what is the job of the free market, Haynt seen the NBR come out against subsidies to private schools. Campbell Live gave Key an easy ride and let him evade the question about funding exclusive private schools for 10 times what he is paying to drip feed breakfast to the poor kids. Hone had the right reply to Key’s stunt, he spat on the floor. Same Sex Marriage Hooray! Same-sex marriage will become legal on 19 October this year. So far so good. Now that sexual orientation is no longer a barrier to marriage, we can look forward to abolishing marriage and the bourgeois family without discriminating against any worker. Marriage is no more than state regulation of the bourgeois family to reproduce capitalism from generation to generation. The bourgeois family represses sexuality and breeds patriarchy and gender roles. Parents have legal responsibility to turn their children into willing workers and discipline them when they transgress. Marriage is the official sanctioning of sex partners to police their children so therefore same- sex marriage is a Marcusian desublimation of outlaw sex as official, We are for outlaw sex, socialist revolution and the abolition of the bourgeois family. We can see what this, will look like if we think about what happened after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Sexual relations, women and youth oppression undarwent a revolution, before being outlawed and banned under Stalin’s dictatorship, Zizek on Thatcher This is a contrary sideswipe at the Thatcher death euphoria that reads like a spoilsport but in fact his target is the danger of the masses rising up. For Zizek and his master, Lacan, the masses need a ‘master’ to pull them out of their ignorance. Self-activity is futile and illusory. Workers need a leader with political authority to organise a revolution, The problem is that for Zizek, the ‘master” is a great leader, the left-wing equivalent of Thatcher, and not the vanguard party. What motivates individuals, for Zizek is their psychology, not the class struggle. In a throwback to Adorno, the bourgeois subject has an authoritarian personality. S/He needs to be told what to do. S/He needs a leader to inspire and motivate her/him, Marx on the other hand recognised that human needs and desire motivate subjects to given social relations. The worker is not born empty waiting to be filled in. The existence of the working class requires that it reproduce itself materially through its labor. What workers lack is stolen from them by the exploitation of their surpluslabor. The working class generates its own authority in struggling to make up this ‘lack’, Workers will rise up when oppressed, but as Trotsky said this head of steam needs a piston and a box to turn it into power. The steam cannot create the piston or box, but neither can the piston or box function without steam: That is Zizek’s problem; he thinks that the existence of workers is a timeless psychic void that can only be filled by an outside authority. He reveals himself as a petty bourgeois who has no role in capitalist society except as the servant of the bourgeoisie. It is the petty bourgeois who needs a master class to serve. For Zizek the workers need a ‘master’ but for Marx the proletariat is the coming ‘master class” Vienna 1913 Cafe Central in ‘Red Vienna’ really is a great setting for a political play that thrashes out the arguments about genetic and social determination of politics. With Freud as the interlocutor we have a distinguished lineup on both sides. We put Freud in the middle since his theory, lends itself to both genetic (libido) and social (repression) interpretations. We count Stalin as on the side of Hitler, since for him ‘blood’ and ‘nationality’ was a powerful influence in shaping one’s “fatherland” in stark opposition to Lenin and Trotsky. In fact around the time (1913) Lenin took Stalin to task for his position on the national question. Stalin was sent to Vienna to write an article on the National Question, “Comrade Stalin, what is a nation?” Lenin didn’t like the results Stalin thought nationalism was based on ‘national character’ - a psychological concept he borrowed from Otto Bauer (a native Viennese). He thought there was little room for nationalities to merge and that revolutionaries had to bury these differences into common class struggle. These differences would have lead to public rows but probably not across the cafe in the hearing of Hitler On his death bed in 1922 Lenin again took Stalin to task for this Georgian chauvinism. Trotsky called Stalin’s regime in 1935 ‘fascist’ living off the backs of the workers. The climax of any Cafe Central exchange would be between Hitler, Stalin and Trotsky over the Stalin-Hitler pact, since the former certainly raised the threat posed by Trotsky in his conversations with Stalin

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