Daniel Lazare presents a stark choice for the
future that is reminiscent of German
revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Do we choose
socialism or barbarism?
Daniel Lazare in this interview
with Finian Cunningham says that the United
States of America is locked in a fateful
political and economic crisis that will produce
either of two outcomes. Either the country is
heading towards more authoritarian rule or there
will be a second American revolution.
Daniel Lazare is a journalist, author and
commentator who specializes in critically
analyzing the politics and Constitution of the
United States. He has authored several books,
including The Velvet Revolution and the Decline
of American Democracy.
The Covid-19 pandemic over the past two years
exposes the pathological diseased state of US
capitalism where private profit is prioritized
over public health. Over one million people have
died in the US, by far the biggest death toll of
any other nation.
By contrast, China’s death toll from Covid-19
stands at around 5,200, or 0.5 percent of the
US. That shows that death and disease are not
inevitable but actually a result of political
choice. That choice is made in Washington under
the diktats of capitalist imperatives. And it
does not matter whether Democrats or Republicans
are in power.
Yet despite the appalling neglect of public
health and other vital needs, the United States
is racked by militarism and a foreign policy of
pursuing confrontation with Russia and China.
The contradictions of the US (and other Western
states) demonstrate that capitalism is a
dead-end system.
The two-party rigid framework of the United
States and its antiquated 18th-century
Constitution means that the system is not
reformable, says Lazare.
Forebodingly, that means the United States in
its politically gridlocked condition is moving
towards increasing authoritarian rule under both
Democrats and Republicans, or the people will
take control through a progressive revolution
that puts the interests of workers and the
general public first.
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