Dan Scanlan wrote: > > > We now know that the organizational part of the Constitution is a > dismal failure: representative government can be purchased;
I think leftists should cure themselves of the practice of ascribing "failure" or "incompetence" or similar terms to capitalism, its institutions, and its political managers. An act succeeds if it acheives its purpose; the constitution is surely one of the most successful political acts in modern history. It was intended to preserve the power of commercial interests against threats from the struggle of the 'lower' classes. It has acheived that goal, and is continuing to be a mighty fortress of capitalism. What more can one ask of it. Our complaint against capitalism is not that it fails; it is that it succeeds all too well. And incidentally, it is not capitalism that is (so far) threatened, in the least, by the current crisis. There is no mass movement or effective organization moving to destroy it, and capitalism will live forever unless overthrown by a mass movement, regardless of how many times it "crashes' into mass misery and financial panic. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
