got to revolution, got to revolution

"in politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
napoleon
"peace. land, and bread, now!"
v i lenin
"the little parties prided themselves on having no analouges in the west. their candidates did not have blow-dried hair, did not know how to catch the little red eye of the television camera,, could not even get through a speech without stumbling. they crowded onto the ballot-twenty-four in all- some of them coalitions of coalitions, like alternative youth, which was composed of the german free youth, the marxist youth leauge, the united young left, and the green youth. but when the ballots were counted, they were flattened by the well-oiled party machines from the west."
"berlin journal" by robert darnton p. 267

"there needs to be a transition , now."
obamaland
"not everyone who worked with the regime should be eliminated."
nobel laureate mohamed elbaraedi

the french stormed the bastile to find the increasingly paranoid and blodthirsty committee of public safety and left that nightmare behind for the imperial pretentions of bonapartist france...weary that the privations they were suffering resulted in a badly run war the russian people deposed the tsar only to find that kerinsky's provisional government was little better and still mismanaged a war...so they gave no real resistance to the bolsheviki (sucked in by lenin's slick promises and inpenetrable prose...and if he was the vanguard of the proletarian revolution why the three piece suit and tie? looked more like a loan officer than a revolutionary..that should have been a clue to the bureaucrat lurking) and what did that achieve but stalin? in a cruel irony, after the bolsheviki collapse in the 1990's they got yeltsin and now putinism...some peoples have no luck at all...poland? the czech republic? the slovak republic? all those "autonomous" areas of the old soviet union? how are things in romania these days? the yoke of the oppressor gone...or just a new set of thugs? the third way that the socialists from east germany wanted to try after they had rid themselves of the bureaucratic nightmare of the stassi and the gdr was lost...when the crowds in leipzig went from chanting "we are the people" to "we are one people" the chance for a socialism that actually worked for the people instead of another politicized elite died dead...instead of a humane system that tried its best to support its citizens they got the consumerist utopia in its strict, german form...affluent yuppies in mercedes scoffing at the "ossies" for their innocent faith in something that could not be quantified in deutchmarks..bludgeoned by the west's obscene wealth and its even more obscene faith in its ability to corrupt that innocence...now the cairenes are up to their necks in a popular revolt and already they are being sold out by leadership that maintains change will come if only they rely on the bureaucrats and professionals they have...hosni is the issue...not the power structure..."trust us, we will be better"...one has to wonder why revolutions fought in the name of the people always end so fucking badly for those exact same people ( do not get me started on the hamiltonian government by special interest...another war for ideals fouled by manipulators)...you'd think that a cursory review of the last two hundred years or so of history would only enlighten those folks in cairo...but they're going to have to do it themselves...no-one who stands to inherit a portion of mubarak's power is going to hip them to the real score...and don't fall back on that trotskyite crap about perpetual revolution...that preening narcissist was creamed by a real political operator who understood the mechanics of power...and lesson one is there are no ethics...flatter, cajole, bludgeon...whatever it takes...power is what matters...and is the nearly clapped out empire we live in really interested in "democracy" or just some veneer of freedom they can trumpet about? a free and self-determining arab world? what would that hold out for us? no...like all of the clients of u s foreign policy hosni is subject to the yadrstick of usefulness...and the best part of that usefulness is keeping things lined up the way the empire wants them to be in your satrap...manuel, saddam, ngo dinh diem all found out what happened when they contraviened one of the empire's permanent interests...those "friends of democracy" suddenly found themselves in a prison cell, hung, or shot to death in the back of an armored personel carrier...power has no interest in people...it is in love with itself.