January 2011
159 posts
Obama's Role
From his first day in office, Obama’s overriding concern has been to rescue Wall Street and protect the wealth of the financial elite.
Capitalism's Primary Purpose
Creating jobs is not the primary goal of a Capitalist economy. Creating profits for the purpose of Capital accumulation and expansion is the sine qua non and essential function of Capitalism.
Davos Disaster
In the last 40 years the Haves got richer. Have-nots got shafted. Something’s terribly wrong. When it comes to global economics, Davos is a disaster.
The Super-Rich
The Reaganomics brand of capitalism failed miserably. Ironically it’s making a rapid comeback. Why? Because the super-rich are obsessed with wealth, power and globalisation.
Anti-Democratic America
The ruling class have taken advantage of the peculiar and thoroughly antidemocratic character of the American two-party system, monopolized by two right-wing parties of big business, in which the social interests and aspirations of the masses of people can find no expression.
Exploiting the cowardice and duplicity of the Democrats, the bourgeoisie was able to engineer a thumping victory for the...
Knowing Coves: Third World Protest as US Spectator... →
zuky:
I’m not a fan of the US cultural habit of turning political turmoil in faraway lands into a gawkworthy spectator sport.
I came to this realization in the aftermath of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, as it gradually dawned on me that sheltered, largely clueless people who had no stake in what was happening had little business pushing their intrusive, hungry gaze into such...
Bleak Days at Davos
There are mutterings in the corridors at Davos that the disparities of wealth in so many countries may lead to a ‘peasants’ revolt’. Tunisia may just be the beginning of a direct challenge to the rich elites.
One needs only to think of the outrage over bankers’ bonuses, for example, and the more general antipathy towards big business that has become a feature of Western society, at least. Davos...
“Human-Rights” Imperialism
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don’t conform to the tastes of upper west side intellectuals? Use human rights as your excuse!
Source: Dissident
Anti-Capitalism
Globalization has made capitalism into a destructive machine of wealth concentration without any concerns for the “worker bees” producing the wealth, and for the damage it creates to our environment by draining our resources.
