And Protection of the Aggressive Zionist Entity, Dr. Adel Samara
United States: How the ruling class self-replicates and parasitizes like a tapeworm cycle.
In the introduction of one of his poems, the late poet Dr. Abdul Latif Aqel wrote: “Abdul Hadi battles a great state.”
Indeed, we say: Gaza battles the global deep state. To understand the integration of American imperialism in the aggression in the front and on behalf of the Zionist Entity, it is necessary to see it from the inside and touch upon its fragile state and decline, which drives it to more ferocious aggression.
Nothing better covers the decline of America’s power and role than the Hollywood spectacle in which Netanyahu clowned during his speech before four-fifths of Congress, where most of the American deep state applauded him. This is the best marketing for two things:
1. US Strength and Role: Its welcoming of a bloody regime that represents America’s history itself and the promotion of killing through Politicized Religion PR by turning God into an arms dealer.
2. US Role: Its bloody role embodied in its aggression against Palestine through Zionist Entity/Israel. Netanyahu summarized this with the phrase: “Support us, and we will defend you in an unending war.”
However, one may understand Netanyahu’s psychological background, shattered by October 7, which requires massive clowning to cover it up, incorporating religions and myths to the extent that this American white settler claims to be of Yemeni Jewish descent!
Forget the imperial appearance of the United States. What is the United States from the inside? This appearance recalls the imperial display of the Shah of Iran on the eve of the revolution that overthrew his regime, led by the left and then liquidated by Imam Khomeini. Behind this American appearance lies $35 trillion in debt, plus the interest on servicing these debts, declining social services, and deteriorating infrastructure alongside continued military spending! This is a state of contradiction.
To understand this contradiction, which even seems as a puzzle, it is necessary to read the United States in its position within the global system, not limited to its internal situation. For a clearer picture, its victory over the Soviet Union, due to the latter’s self-disintegration, is explained by the fact that it and the Western imperial center and their client regimes in the periphery of this system fought the Soviet Union with the imperialisms capabilities and their control over the periphery’s wealth, while the Soviets resisted with only their capabilities and lost their allied regimes that they imagined would develop non-capitalistically, but instead became capitalist, exploiting Soviet aid to firmly establish themselves in the global system led by the United States. This applies to most of the dissolved Non-Aligned Movement, which returned to engage in the global capitalist system, some even turning imperialist, like India!
Indeed, there has been and still is a global class alliance between the developed capitalism in the core countries of the world capitalist system and the comprador capitalism in many peripheral countries and there are still more than 700 American military bases across the planet. These bases are costly but serve major American corporations, hence these companies insist on the authority continuing to serve them by maintaining spending on this American aggressive role, which ensures their ability to obtain raw materials at low prices through unequal exchange, plundering, not to mention wars that are more costly, part of the cost for serving corporate interests.
Therefore, there are three parties demanding the government provide services as the authority:
1. American aggressive military forces globally.
2. Corporations benefiting from the military role but fighting against paying taxes.
3. The popular classes, or most of society, who pay taxes reluctantly but need essential services starting from social security and healthcare to road maintenance and funding for schools, education, hospitals, and all other matters.
These three parties demand the government do things that cost money. At the same time, neither the companies nor the working masses want to pay taxes—the companies evade and ally with the authorities, and the masses pay under duress!
Thus, the question arises: where does the government get the money to cover the triad’s demands? The money is primarily accumulated in the hands of companies that, being an essential part of the authority/state, have gradually exempted themselves from paying taxes as required. This reveals that the authority in the United States is the dictatorship of the capitalist class/deep state represented by major military and civilian companies, political administration, media networks, and the church. This is the ruling class alliance, dictatorially covered by a fragile, torn democratic veil.
The COVID-19 crisis might help clarify this: profits, i.e., incomes, shifted from people paying money to consume their natural needs, which profited companies, to paying for health requirements, i.e., pharmaceutical companies and other supplies. These companies are branches of other military and civilian companies, so company profits continued, but the profit was rotated, entering from another door, keeping accumulation the same. Importantly, the capitalist class dictatorship continued transferring the tax burden to the masses instead of companies!
The United States no longer applies a progressive tax. Instead, companies have established a law that taxes income up to $160,000, with anything above that tax-free, protecting massive company incomes and burdening the popular classes.
In short, collected taxes are insufficient to cover the required services and spending, so the government resorts to borrowing. As borrowing continues, deficits accumulate. The situation is complicated further by the government expanding military spending despite the crisis and deficit, spending on wars in Ukraine, against Palestinians, Syria, and Yemen, without asking those benefiting from the wars to pay taxes. That is why Netanyahu ordered the Congress on July 24, 2024, where he said, “Support us and we will fight and protect you.”
What does this mean? This means that finance and armed the Zionist Entity. Every US administration is obliged to do that and any administration daring to impose higher taxes on companies despite the fact that part of it goes to finance the Zionist Entity will find these companies supporting its election rivals, leading to the administration losing power. However, this shouldn’t obscure the fact that both US two parties exchange power this way, making it a democratic game essentially dictatorial, exchanged between the two parties.
The government tries to ease the matter for the people by saying the debt is on the Ministry of Finance and the money is for the Federal Reserve, which is also part of the government. Yet, in the end, the government will pay interest on this debt, but to whom? Ironically, it’s to the companies that lent the government. What a hellish cycle of profit-making through circulating corporate money! To be precise, the money is in the hands of the wealthy and companies, and to some extent, foreign companies and governments that lent and continue to lend the government. The basis of surplus value that companies gain is from exploiting popular classes and the profit derived from American capital’s control over many peripheral economies, either by plundering at low prices or benefiting from the transfer of global thieves’ funds to American banks and money laundering, etc.
The masses can’t lend to the government because they lack surplus money, as workers earn minimum wages, with most of their labor’s value added going to company owners. Thus, the masses pay taxes used to pay the government interest to companies and the wealthy who can lend the government.
Here comes the main conclusion: You will understand that when politicians borrow money, they do a huge favor for companies and the rich because they essentially say, “We will not tax you, but we will take the money we could have taken from you in taxes by borrowing it from you, and in a few years, we will return it to you, and in the meantime, we will pay you interest on the money we borrowed from you.”
Therefore, for companies, this is a done deal. Of course, it’s better for companies to lend the government and earn interest than for the government to tax them.
Meanwhile, the masses face exploitation, and in the end, the deficit is a mechanism to exploit the masses, which bear the cost, while the interest goes to companies and the rich who are the only ones able to lend the government.
In addition to companies, foreign governments lend the American government, like Japan and the People’s Republic of China, ranking first and second among foreign creditors. China holds about $800 billion in American debt, having reduced it from $2 trillion a few years ago. Here, China’s game becomes clear: lending to the United States, which fights its ally Russia. However, China benefits from lending to America because America pays its interest on loans, thereby strengthening its army. This, for example, annoys Trump, even in his older program, if he returns to power.
How do we understand the economic relationship between China and America in this regard other than an exchange of interests of the capitalist class in both countries at the expense of popular classes in both countries as well, regardless of China’s semi-socialism? But this exchange of interests, based on a capitalist foundation, doesn’t lack competition between the two states, both parties, i.e., BRICS and the G7. This competition is evident as BRICS’ total production reached 33% of global output, while the G7’s production is about 30%.
However, BRICS’ larger economy doesn’t mean it’s as cohesive as the G7 block. For instance, India is a nominal BRICS member but practically closer to the G7. The lesson here might be that major capitalist states, to varying degrees, form a class dictatorship over all popular classes worldwide, clearly indicating that BRICS isn’t the heir to the socialist block.
Yet, the significance of BRICS’ rise, especially China, lies in exposing America’s flaws and the American illusion of always winning, an illusion debunked by American companies operating in China itself. For example, General Motors produces more cars in China than in the United States, and other companies like Ford do the same. Capitalism, in search of profits, goes where profits are higher, what Marx called “the law of value” . China needs technology and capital to employ its vast labor force and consequently needs to open American companies on its soil for technology, capital, and employment.
Hence, China balances between being a competitor and partner with America, but this won’t last forever. Marx explained this contradiction when he analyzed the political economy of capitalism as a system of crises and contradictions.
Let’s ask the deeper question here: What lies behind this competition and partnership? Who benefits from it? From our perspective, this relationship allows the capitalist class to maintain its economic gains and political hegemony, shifting the burden of crises to the working classes globally, continuing to exploit and extract surplus value, regardless of the state or political system.
Here lies the essence of the global capitalist dictatorship: it’s an interconnected system, crossing borders, involving multinational corporations, financial institutions, and state apparatuses, all operating to sustain their power and wealth. This intricate network ensures that the capitalist class remains dominant, while the masses endure the consequences, whether through direct exploitation, economic policies favoring the elite, or wars and conflicts serving capitalist interests.
In conclusion, understanding the United States’ internal dynamics and its role in the global system reveals the underlying capitalist dictatorship, masked by democratic facades. This system, driven by profit and power, perpetuates exploitation and inequality, both domestically and globally, making it crucial to challenge and expose these structures to envision a more equitable and just world.
Considering the gradual decline of the United States position and power, the question is: Did the average American, who is the majority, understand that America will not always win?
This is confirmed by American economists, saying:
“…This takes us to the delusion of the British that it took them a century to realize that the British Empire was no longer there and some of them did not understand that yet. The United States is in the process of being sanctioned and protected by a society that has no confidence in the ability of its companies to compete. We were used to that when it was the United States champion of free trade around the world. This is because we were able to win in those cases, we were the most technologically dynamic, we were the fastest growing, but we are no longer like that, we no longer have anything to promise the new generation.”
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