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depression, he is like a necrophiliac, clinging to the not get the United States out of a depression war ii10_hand" makes the whole apparatus work. The class dying body of capitalism and adapting to th e new realitystruggle is something between the individual capitalist witha Zero-Growth death ideology and with genocidaland his workers, and may the toughest man win. Yet economic policies.complementing their willingness to beat a striking Once the liberal has decided to accept the warmworker over the head with a club, the Willy Farahs of kitchen of a controlled capitalist environment, any hopethis world have an entrepreneurial eighteenth-century he or she once harbored for "helping others," becomes afaith in capitalist progress. Depressions do not herald grotesque caricature of itself. The help offered by today'sthe permanent end of technological advancement. They liberalism is a brainwashed grin on the hollow face of ansimply mean squeeze your workers a little harder, and exhausted worker, black pride in a burned-out ghetto, orlet's get on with capitalism. "co-participation" in a sped-up hell hole of a factory.Old Rockefeller taught his boys that such attitudes This is the substance of Hubert Humphrey's politics ofwill not breed fascism; they will only stiffen working class Strength Through Joy.resistance.Instead, the Rockefellers and their international II. THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEFEATcapitalist brethren turned to the Democratic left to The same economic crisis which pushed Germany andcontrol the working class. Liberalism is capitalism's Italy into fascism now confronts the entire advancedpolitical counter-gang philosol_hy. That is, in advanced capitalist sector. The reason for this is best examined inwestern societies, liberalism is the radical, pro-capitalist the difference between the United States' response to thefoil to communist, class-conscious insurgency. The most depression of the 1930's and Germany's response. Theovert example of this phenomenon came after World entire Western sector was faced with a liquidity crisis.War II, with the CIA-directed creation of liberal political The amount of paper capital was expanding while theparties -- the Free Democratic Party in West Germany, real wealth and real produ_ion which backed it up, wasthe Republican Party in Italy and the Americans for contracting. The crash of 1929 marked the violentDemocratic Action grouplet in the United States. All deflation of that worthless paper and the descent intowere explicitly spawned to counter the potential in- depression. With the hot' air out of the system, thefluence on liberals and intellectuals of the Communist problem then facing all Western capitalists was theParties in the unrest of post-war Europe. renewal of production backed by newly-floated creditThe operative process which delivers liberals so readily representing some form of real wealth. That wealth wasinto the hands of professional counter-insurgents in the to be squeezed from some sector of the world's workingCIA, is a 'psychological one. It is a process of self- class.degradation. At some time in their lives, most liberals Germany, stripped of its colonies, unable to engage incapitulate to their fears of confronting and defying the world trade was forced to turn in on its own populationexisting capitalist authorities. Rather than realizing their as a source of that real wealth. New credits were floatedpotential to understand and act upon a coherent world, -- the Mefo and Offa bills which were specificallyliberals cave in to their mothers' view that the world is backed up with loot from the labor intensive publicrun by an "Illuminati." One's only hope to effect the works projects and armament industry. With paperworld is to serve that Illuminati; that is, to become a credit again expanding and the cannibalization of itslawyer, or a professor or a statesman, own population was no longer sufficient, GermanyThat capitulation most obviously manifests itself in a turned to the east adding the factories of Eastern Europeconscious rejection of revolutionary, class-wide activity and the bodies of the Slavic populations to Germany'sLook at the ranks of former members of the Communist store of wealth.Party USA who were broken and you find liberals. (It is The United States, after a short period of canonlynow, with the growing power of the NCLC, that nibalization which took the form of FDR's public workssome of these shells are returning to human political projects and the National Industrial Recovery Act, wasactivity.) Even worse, look at the progressives and ac- able to ease up on its own population because of thetivists who rejected communism outright and you find promise of outside loot. World War II, besidesthe most bitter, vicious proto-fascists currently engaged providing the economy with a shot in the arm with warin politics, production, laid the political basis for the establishmentLiberals have destroyed any hope of an identity ofthedoilar empire. With the Bretton Woods agreementdivorced from capitalist reality. Unlike the conservative of 1948 which pegged foreign currencies to the dollar,who is attached, "often economically, to a parochial, wealth siphoned from the Third World (and from postunchangingform of capitalism, the liberal fluctuates war Europe) has provided the underpinnings tbr conwildlywith the violent ups and downs of capitalism. In a temporary world capitalism. Roosevelt's New Deal did