ken hanly wrote: > The new system will be the results of an infinity of individual pressures. > What sort of nonsense is that. I do not see any evidence that the present > crisis is leading to a new system that is not capitalist. At most it will > lead to some changes in existing capitalism involving regulation of financial > markets globally if possible and more government involvement as a means of > bailing out or hospitalizing ailing parts of the system until they recover > and handed back to private profiteers.
> There certainly seems no difference in the US political system. Everything > is framed in terms of the two capitalist parties and the same illusions are > sold about change and the same bipartisan imperialist foreign policy espoused > by both parties.< Right. Instead of an "an infinity of individual pressures," what's needed is concentrated collective pressure. -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
