[Peace-discuss] [Discuss] Opportunity agenda

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This article is on point. 


Unfortunately, this is not a symptom of capitalism being broken, or "gone awry"-run amok in the 'extreme.' This is capitalism working exactly as it was always meant to work, the back-room/boardroom/frat house/country club bar room mantra was always.... "of the rich!!.... by the rich!!.... and for the rich!!...." From colonial occupation and slavery, through the Industrial Revolution & the Guilded Age, both World Wars, Bretton Woods to Vietnam, Neo-Liberalism to present crisis.... it has always been "Business As Usual." This is "capitalism perfected."


The problem simply and the crisis is capitalism itself.

As an anarchist, I have not decided yet if I'll vote or not. [The whole shit-house is corrupt, and reeks.... and truthfully, the system itself cannot be reformed because those who are entrenched in power would rather burn it all to the ground than see it change.... that would be their "end game scenario."], but if I do I'll cast one for you, if only because you're asking the right questions. Unfortunately, for a poor-precarious-worker like myself [and many millions of others], the only hope is revolution ..... but, that is a long way off.... 


Good luck anyway.... and make 'em think,


davep


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“The struggle is for life…. For a real LIFE. You must fight foul, b.ecause LIFE IS REAL! … And, this struggle is for HOPE. So, Fucking Fight!!”—@ltazor, Autonome v.1, #1



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They have offered neither bread nor cake or anything other than false hope and empty symbols.
The references to creating opportunities is an ideological mystification meant to suggest that reversing the decades of economic restructuring, stagnant and declining wages, unemployment and expanding poverty can be easily corrected by simple will and the right mixture of incentives for private sector capital. It is as though these realities are just the result of incorrect policies and not the inherent logic of capitalist processes.
This was the underlining implication of Obama’s business summit on Friday – that the specific issue of the long-term unemployed can be solved by a more focused determination on the part of the private sector to hire those workers.
The shameless appeal to opportunity agendas by Obama and the Democrats in the midst of a global capitalist meltdown is even more dishonest than their counterparts on the more extreme right. Because for traditional conservatism, there has never been any pretense toward believing in relatively equal outcomes in the capitalist market. Inequality, and by extension income inequality, unemployment, and “winners and losers” in the market, are all expressions of a natural social order when people are “free” to pursue their self-interests.
Democrats and reform liberalism, in contrast, claim to be committed to the rights of labor, social justice, legal equality and a progressive role for the state. Yet, in the era of neoliberalism, which has an ideological component as well as representing conscious policy decisions in the economic sphere, the philosophical and policy differences of those two approaches have almost been obliterated, reduced now to policy differences that are more tactical than substantial, notwithstanding the tea-party critique of the Democrat Party and Obama.


http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/let-them-eat-symbols-obama%E2%80%99s-plan-long-term-unemployed


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