I am becoming increasingly convinced that as the capitalist crisis
deepens in the U.S., there might be a future American president who,
unlike Barack Obama, will happily accept the socialist label when it is
pinned on him or her. While it is unlikely that the 79 year old George
Soros will be alive at that point, the massive economic/political power
he has assembled will survive him and likely play a role in getting such
a person elected. Of course, as is the case with just about everything
Soros has touched since the early 1980s, the leftism will only be a
veneer. Like his hedge fund benefactor, whether dead or alive at that
point, the main goal of such a president will be to preserve the
capitalist system. And what better way to preserve it than to foster the
illusion that you are trying to eliminate it.
I first became aware of Soros’s ability to co-opt the left when I
discovered that Christian Parenti was on his payroll, mostly in the
capacity of researching and writing about prison reform. This was at the
same time that Soros was pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into
Yugoslavia on behalf of imperialism’s quest to rid Eastern Europe of the
last remnants of socialized property relations. And who was one of the
most forceful opponents of imperialism’s crusade? None other than
Christian’s father Michael Parenti, who-bless his soul-is the last
person in the world ever to be offered a job in one of Soros’s NGO’s.
Besides me of course.
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/teodor-shanin-and-george-soros/
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