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No Car Czars, No Capitalists, No Bailouts, No Bosses!
Socialist Party of Michigan Statement on the U.S. Automotive Bailout

Adopted Unanimously at the SPMI State Membership Meeting on January 10th 2009 in Detroit

The tenuously averted collapse of the U.S. automotive industry directly follows the arrant exposure of sheer parasitism and insolvency that now characterizes the hegemonic financial sector of advanced capitalism. While coinciding with news of Toyota’s 1.7 billion dollar financial setback and first operating loss in seventy years, the American automotive industry’s looming threat of extinction is no mere consequence of the reverberating effects of the financial crisis, but every bit as much a contributing cause.

Despite compounding efforts, in recent years, to uproot its organized workforce’s most hard-won historic gains, today’s highly mechanized; overproductive, internationally developed automotive industry can no longer encapsulate the same labor value within each individual vehicle it markets, as once was the case. Such endemic losses in the real economy of good and service production present a catalyst not only to the vast financialization of advanced capitalism, but also the increasing detachment and predation of its commanding speculators...

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