Last night I tuned in to the John Batchelor show on WABC radio. Batchelor is an erudite rightwinger who often features liberal guests but I was not prepared for what I heard. Someone was delivering a powerful indictment of capitalist politics in the USA, repeating many of the things found in Charles Ferguson's "Inside Job" but sharper politically, describing Obama as "center-right" and stating that the only hope for the country was the resistance in Wisconsin. It turned out that Batchelor had a guest host that evening who apparently selected interviewees more in line with his liberal outlook. All I can say is that there is something going on the country that reminds me of what Marx said in the Communist Manifesto with all proportions guarded:
"Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the progress of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of old society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
