李良：阶级斗争无所不在

阶级斗争无所不在

（李良书简二零一零年十二月五日）

阶级斗争无所不在，被压迫人民如果忘记了它就会无处容身。

金融风暴的後遗症就是全世界阶级矛盾的扩大。方今美国平均失业率是10%，加尼福尼亚州则是12.4%，这还不包括那些早已放弃寻找工作的。可是，富人会不会受到影响呢？试看下面这一段话：

“贫困阶层在不断扩大，因无力还贷被赶出家门的家庭或许要经历一段不愉快的节日时光。而美国企业刚刚经历了有史以来利润最高的一个季度。据《泰晤士报》本周报道，美国企业在第三季度获得了1.659万亿美元的利润，这是自60多年前开始有记录以来的最高数字。”

这段话来自日美国《纽约时报》黑人专栏作家Bob。Herbert的一篇“打赢阶级战争（Winning。the。Class。War）文字，而贫无立锤跟60年来1.659万亿美元利润是个多么鲜明的写照！好一个市场经济！

《环球视野》第330期将之译成中文，未全达意，兹将原文紧附於后以为参考。

”朱门酒肉臭，路有饿死骨“，千古不移，要打破这个”潜规则“，舍阶级斗争尚有何方？

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《环球视野》第330期，摘自2010年11月27日美国《纽约时报》

鲍勃•赫伯特　

美国《纽约时报》11月27日文章 原题：打赢阶级战争（作者鲍勃•赫伯特）

没有人愿意提及的阶级战争仍在继续，没有减弱。

就在数以百万计失业的和其他为生计而挣扎的美国人勒紧裤腰带过节的时候，美国的精英阶层还有数百万甚至数十亿的金钱滚滚而来，他们穿上舞鞋像贵族一样参加聚会。

衰退是对于小人物而言的，而不是针对那些位于美国统治阶级核心的企业负责人和华尔街巨头。他们对其他所有人发动了经济战争，并且赢得了快乐的时光。

贫困阶层在不断扩大，因无力还贷被赶出家门的家庭或许要经历一段不愉快的节日时光。而美国企业刚刚经历了有史以来利润最高的一个季度。据《泰晤士报》本周报道，美国企业在第三季度获得了1.659万亿美元的利润，这是自60多年前开始有记录以来的最高数字。

企业界的权贵们正在令人担忧地膨胀。他们的利润在过去7个季度中飞速增长，他们难以掩饰地高兴。

如果有人认为美国精英阶层的财富和那些在贫困中挣扎的大量人群之间的这种巨大悬殊会有任何好处的话，那他就是愚蠢。这对精英阶层来说也并非好事。

如果失业率长期居高不下、薪资水平停滞不前并且新增的工作机会都是低级别的职位，那就没办法让美国的消费经济回到健康的正轨上来。如果普通美国人无法用好工作带来的收入进行消费，那么任何有意义的、长期的经济复苏都是没有希望的。

除此之外，极度的经济不平等有可能导致社会的不稳定。处于贫困状态的家庭会面临越来越大的压力：要筹钱支付房租或是贷款，要躲避票据收款人，要应对疾病和突发状况，还要面对每天的极度焦虑。

随着愤怒的积聚和替罪羊的出现，社会矛盾会逐渐转移。

最终会有人借着这种环境起来煽动生事。富人们可能会觉得大众不可能站到他们的对立面。但千万别这么想，别忘了上世纪30年代动荡的历史。

纽约市的例子就说明了出现真正矛盾的可能。亿万富翁市长迈克尔•布隆伯格任命了一个美国贵族的榜样来担任该市的教育主管。赫斯特杂志集团董事长凯瑟琳•布莱克是一个很有能力的企业主管，但她绝对没有教育领域的背景。

布莱克将会发现，在她和她将服务的工薪阶层家长和学生间，有一条几乎无法逾越的鸿沟。更糟糕的是，布隆伯格已经明确表示，由于预算不足，她需要集中精力对教育系统的开支进行缩减。
于是，我们看到亿万富翁和百万富翁告诉穷人和为生计而挣扎的人们，他们将不得不靠着更少的资源凑合着过下去。你几乎可以感受到仇恨在增加。
极端的不平等已经在加剧美国在政治和其他方面的两极分化。并且它大大地削弱了一种观念，即作为公民，我们应当以相当团结的方式来面对这个国家的问题，不管是经济还是其他方面的问题。当太多的人滑向底层的时候，他们就会倾向于互相争夺越来越贫乏的资源。
真正要做的是让美国劳动者组成联盟，并以善意的精神找到公正合理的办法，来解决许多普通个人和家庭所面对的大量问题。我们需要强有力的领导人来组织这种联盟并反击那种几乎毁了经济、让劳动者陷入困境的力量。
贵族曾被认为是美国人所厌恶的。现在，当这个国家的其他许多人都在受苦的时候，他们是唯一还能笑得出来的人。

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Winning the Class War

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/opinion/27herbert.html?_r=1

By BOB HERBERT

Published: November 26, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/opinion/27herbert.html?_r=1

The class war that no one wants to talk about continues unabated.

Even as millions of out-of-work and otherwise struggling Americans are tightening their belts for the holidays, the nation’s elite are lacing up their dancing shoes and partying like royalty as the millions and billions keep rolling in.

Recessions are for the little people, not for the corporate chiefs and the titans of Wall Street who are at the heart of the American aristocracy. They have waged economic warfare against everybody else and are winning big time.

The ranks of the poor may be swelling and families forced out of their foreclosed homes may be enduring a nightmarish holiday season, but American companies have just experienced their most profitable quarter ever. As The Times reported this week, U.S. firms earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter — the highest total since the government began keeping track more than six decades ago.

The corporate fat cats are becoming alarmingly rotund. Their profits have surged over the past seven quarters at a pace that is among the fastest ever seen, and they can barely contain their glee. On the same day that The Times ran its article about the third-quarter surge in profits, it ran a piece on the front page that carried the headline: "With a Swagger, Wallets Out, Wall Street Dares to Celebrate."

Anyone who thinks there is something beneficial in this vast disconnect between the fortunes of the American elite and those of the struggling masses is just silly. It’s not even good for the elite.

There is no way to bring America’s consumer economy back to robust health if unemployment is chronically high, wages remain stagnant and the jobs that are created are poor ones. Without ordinary Americans spending their earnings from good jobs, any hope of a meaningful, long-term recovery is doomed.

Beyond that, extreme economic inequality is a recipe for social instability. Families on the wrong side of the divide find themselves under increasing pressure to just hold things together: to find the money to pay rent or the mortgage, to fend off bill collectors, to cope with illness and emergencies, and deal with the daily doses of extreme anxiety.

Societal conflicts metastasize as resentments fester and scapegoats are sought. Demagogues inevitably emerge to feast on the poisonous stew of such an environment. The rich may think that the public won’t ever turn against them. But to hold that belief, you have to ignore the turbulent history of the 1930s.

A stark example of the potential for real conflict is being played out in New York City, where the multibillionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has selected a glittering example of the American aristocracy to be the city’s schools chancellor. Cathleen Black, chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, has a reputation as a crackerjack corporate executive but absolutely no background in education.

Ms. Black travels in the rarefied environs of the very rich. Her own children went to private boarding schools. She owns a penthouse on Park Avenue and a $4 million home in Southampton. She was able to loan a $47,600 Bulgari bracelet to a museum for an exhibit showing off the baubles of the city’s most successful women.

Ms. Black will be peering across an almost unbridgeable gap between her and the largely poor and working-class parents and students she will be expected to serve. Worse, Mr. Bloomberg, heralding Ms. Black as a "superstar manager," has made it clear that because of budget shortfalls she will be focused on managing cutbacks to the school system.

So here we have the billionaire and the millionaire telling the poor and the struggling — the little people — that they will just have to make do with less. You can almost feel the bitterness rising.

Extreme inequality is already contributing mightily to political and other forms of polarization in the U.S. And it is a major force undermining the idea that as citizens we should try to face the nation’s problems, economic and otherwise, in a reasonably united fashion. When so many people are tumbling toward the bottom, the tendency is to fight among each other for increasingly scarce resources.

What’s really needed is for working Americans to form alliances and try, in a spirit of good will, to work out equitable solutions to the myriad problems facing so many ordinary individuals and families. Strong leaders are needed to develop such alliances and fight back against the forces that nearly destroyed the economy and have left working Americans in the lurch.

Aristocrats were supposed to be anathema to Americans. Now, while much of the rest of the nation is suffering, they are the only ones who can afford to smile.