[Peace-discuss] BBlum, again reports

[Morton K. Brussel]

I find few in whom I can respect more for his public commentary, which  
seems to me to be the apotheosis of rational, critical, simply  
explained, common sense.  --mkb

>> Those who swear by free enterprise argue that the "socialism" of  
>> World War 2 was instituted only because of the exigencies of the  
>> war. That's true, but it doesn't alter the key point that it had  
>> been immediately recognized by the government that the wasteful and  
>> inefficient capitalist system, always in need of proper financial  
>> care and feeding, was no way to run a country trying to win a war.
>>
>> It's also no way to run a society of human beings with human needs.  
>> Most Americans agree with this but are not consciously aware that  
>> they hold such a belief. In 1987, nearly half of 1,004 Americans  
>> surveyed by the Hearst press believed Karl Marx's aphorism: "From  
>> each according to his ability, to each according to his need" was  
>> to be found in the US Constitution.4
>>
>> Along these lines, I've written an essay entitled: "The United  
>> States invades, bombs, and kills for it, but do Americans really  
>> believe in free enterprise?"5

The whole article, with cogent remarks about Obama as well, is at

http://www.killinghope.org/bblum6/aer68.html
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