American Presidential
Elections - 2012 not Between to 'Personalities' But 'Policies' of Political
Economy. Principle of An Unbridled Market or State Intervention will Decide
Both the Next US President and the 'New Globalization' in Making. Barrack Obama
To Win For His Right Principles & Policies Akin To Ambedkarism - An Ambedkarian Forecast.
President
Barrack Obama may win the elections Scheduled in Nov. 2012 for his principles
& policies of Dewey & Ambedkar. But He must remain assertive
& affirmative on racial discrimination and
its redressal while doing justice to all, to avoid Wroth of Black Voters.
Libertarian Republican's have already 'lost'
in 2007 crisis of laissez-faire Economy. Ambedkarism the way ahead
beyond globalization...
The forthcoming
Presidential elections to be contested in November 2012 between Democratic
Candidate Barrack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney will
decide the course of not just the career of reigning President but what
type of a 'political economy & world order', America will
pursue. To Me Barrack Obama is all set to win the elections, for He is
on the right side of Human history which has not 'ended'; but only for Fukyama.
This is a 'forecast' I am making well in advance before Nov. 2012. For
the first time I had said so on 5th July 2012, in Jalna (Maharashtra, India)
during a public function and written in Bahujan Vision (Hindi), Aug-Sept. 2012.
My forecast is [not] based on any surveys or opinion polls due to couple of
important reasons, which I can certainly make as I have authored book 'Ambedkarism
in the era of globalization and beyond...' (2011, Blue World Series,
Nagpur, India, ISBN 978-81-907085-3-1).
The first and foremost is that Obama
has started adopting the policies of 'welfare state/social state'
acknowledging the fact that the 'market' on its own, cannot convert the
'growth' into 'equity, equality & justice'. The State has to play
both the 'allocative & distributive' functions of economy for development
& welfare of all; that the market cannot. It can at best play the
allocative function and not the distributive one. The 'new economic
theories' pioneered by Romer & Lucas and the Human
Development Report 2010 of UNDP in its conclusion of 2 decades of human
development has arrived at the same inference. The 'Affordable Care Act' is the best example of this thinking. The
important agenda that Obama wants to pursue is a major progressive
tax restructuring, educational policy, economic & employment
policy for translating 'growth' in 'equity, equality & justice'. Though
Obama is all set to win but the only reason which may be responsible for
his defeat is the rejection of Black voters themselves for his 'reformative' [&
not radical, emancipatory] stand on "racial discrimination"
affecting the 'dignity & development' of African-Americans. He has
already been severely criticised intensely for the same as 'mascot of white
wall street' but Michel's 'Black Identity' may save Barrack
from the wrath of Black Panthers.
Second, the libertarian
Republicans, [unlike the
Republicans, of Republican Party formed by Dr. Ambedkar] have
already lost in 2007 with the beginning of financial crisis from Lehman
Brothers and the whole laissez-faire economic model of capitalism.
'Globalization' initiated by Regan & Thatcher in 1978
with its 'pro-market and anti-state philosophy' and 'private,
good; public bad' has already completed its life in 2007 and Romney
cannot win the American Presidential election on the slogan of 'prosperity
& power' alone. He is bound to be rejected by the American People.
The last but the most important
aspect is the 'making' of 'American mind' itself. It is slowly but
steadily changing from 'survival of the fittest' of Social Darwinism and evangelism supported libertarianism;
narcrisstic liberalism, 'neo-liberalism and 'not truth, no solution' of
post-modernism to 'enlightenment, equality & humanism'
of Dewey, Pierre, W. James, Lydon Johnson, DuBios, Martin Luther King and of
course Amratya Sen, John Rawls & Thomas Nagel 'justice' and Human
Agenda. All this will lead to a New American Society & new globalization.
But America will require an "Ambedkrian
enlightenment" for coming out of undesirable 'mindset' for a New
World & New Human Order. Will Obama know more of Dr.
Ambedkar from Elineor Zelliot, Christopher Queen & others
for this 'Ambedkarian Enlightenment'. Only time will tell. But Best
Wishes To Obama !
Vijay
Mankar,
National Organiser, AIMBSCS