What is particularly striking is how the super-radical, ultra-Marxist/fascist Dr Rakesh Bhandari blames the working class for the austerity program, while at the same time rating himself as "working class":
"And that raises the political question of why the more liberal governmental program of managing effective demand is giving way to private method. Surely part of the answer has to lie in the division and passivity of the American working class. Without mass protest we prove ourselves willing to tolerate great and troubling levels of human suffering." http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/02/berkeley-political-economy-colloquium-february-18-2011-austerity.html So "we", the workers, have ourselves to blame, because we didn't engage in mass protest - the implication being that if there had been mass protest, things would have been different. J.
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