[Peace-discuss] larry flynt on freedom and monetary policy

[C. G. Estabrook]

I meant that the 20% are mistaken (not by accident) about their group interest;
it in fact is the same as that of the 80% -- and is therefore opposed to that of
the 1%, who relate to the rest of society as exploiter to exploited.

The history of all hitherto existing society is a history of class struggle.


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> Absolutely correct except I would suggest this modification ---
> 
> ... the linchpin is the "political class", who've thrown in their lot with
> the fraction of 1% of the population who own the country -- /altho' their
> interest as a group is to lie to the 80% and keep the 20% engaged in
> circuses./"
> 
> On 8/21/2009 9:59 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> E. Wayne Johnson quoted
>>> "The real war is not between the left and the right. It is between the
>>> average American and the ruling class. If we come together on this single
>>>  issue, everything else will resolve itself. It's time we took back our 
>>> government from those who would make us their slaves."
>> 
>> True enough, but the linchpin is the "political class"*, who've thrown in
>> their lot with the fraction of 1% of the population who own the country --
>> altho' their interests as a group lie with the 80%.
>> 
>> It's been a principle of American politics since it was enunciated by the
>> first chief justice of the US Supreme Court, John Jay, that "those who own
>> the country ought to govern it."  The political class make that happen.
>> 
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>> 
>> * "...there are two different groups [who are] targets for propaganda. One
>> is what's sometimes called the political class. There's maybe twenty
>> percent of the population which is relatively educated, more or less
>> articulate, plays some kind of role in decision-making. They're supposed to
>> participate in social life -- either as managers, or cultural managers like
>> teachers and writers and so on. They're supposed to vote, they're supposed
>> to play some role in the way economic and political and cultural life goes
>> on. Now their consent is crucial. So that's one group that has to be deeply
>> indoctrinated. Then there's maybe eighty percent of the population whose
>> main function is to follow orders and not think, and not to pay attention
>> to anything -- and they're the ones who usually pay the costs" [Noam
>> Chomsky].
>> 
>> (If the 20% are the linchpin, the 80% are the wheel that does the work by
>> going around in circles, and, I suppose the fraction of 1% is the axle,
>> which goes along for the ride...)
>> 
>> 
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