The remarkable yet undeniable crisis of capitalism has led to some obvious violations of capitalist ideology. For one thing the average taxpayer is being screwed in order to provide extensive socialist programs for the rich, huge corporations and the financial elite.
If the so-called free market ideology of the last twenty years enriched the few and impoverished many it is now ruining may who were seduced into the financial manipulations of the capitalists. Now the whole bottom has fallen out the capitalist Ponzi schemes but the rich still expect to get richer. Only now, it's all about doing with the mechanisms of state intervention what was being done under the banner of free enterprise, making sure the rich get richer and screwing the rest of us.
Yet even the remarkably dull and apolitical American citizen has started to scratch his almost unused head. Yes people are pissed. They are going under or their relatives and friends or neighbors are getting screwed because of all the financial manipulations of the ruling class and its band of collegial cut throat professionals.
Joe Sixpack is wondering why the rules are suddenly changed and the
rich now get a free pass, all the money in the middle of the monopoly game and a new chance to screw the general public again! Remember, the bailouts are so they can do it again. They just want to get back to screwing us the old fashioned way, socialism for them being an embarrassing expedient.
Meanwhile Joe and the family may be trying to sneak a beer into the homeless shelter or out on the street. Where are all the Marxists and socialists and anarchists? Shouldn't they all be teaching Joe and learning from Joe? People still think in old capitalist terms even though the evidence suggests that capitalism is a transient historical stage that has now become unworkable and is also incredibly unjust.
Yeah, we should have socialism all right but not for the rich and we need a socialism that preserves our ecosystem and our planet's ability to sustain human life. Capitalism is destroying not only the future of tens of millions of Joe Sixpack families but Capitalism is also destroying our prospects as a species for survival.
The injustice cuts and millions bleed. Meanwhile the capitalists and their political elite continue to subsidize the wealthy and try to save the crappy system that is screwing almost all of us today and dooms all of us tomorrow.
Monday, November 24, 2008
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