Re: [A-List] Brazil’s Objections Slow Chávez’s Plan for Regional Bank

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/23/07, Nestor Gorojovsky <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am afraid there is some confusion here. By definition, "hegemony"
> cannot be exerted as a reflexive verb. Nobody "hegemonizes" him or
> herself.
>
> US is the most important country to check not "US hegemony" but the
> hegemony of the USAmerican bourgeoisie over its subordinate classes,
> which empowers that bourgeoisie to exert its hegemony through "US" as
> a whole on the global level.
>
> At this level, that USAmerican bourgeoisie operates through the US
> State or under auspices or coordination of that State. Thus it is
> also important to study those countries which, as such countries and
> in spite of their social structure and dominant mode of production,
> confront and thus "check" the power of "US" on the global scenario.
>
> Even to check the hegemony of the USAmerican bourgeoisie _within_ the
> frontiers of USA, it is good to realize that others check it  outside
> and make US workers, etc., clearly conscious that this implies a
> weakening of their exploiters, etc.

Today, hegemony of the US ruling class over subordinate classes within
the USA is just about complete.  Most of self-identified leftists in
the USA are in fact liberals, political liberalism being their
implicit ideology if not explicit commitment yet.
--
Yoshie