On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have my suspicions that if US government were to announce that it was > “regulating” JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and > Goldman Sachs by taking 100% ownership and consolidating them under new > state-appointed management as the Bank of the United States, their current > directors and shareholders and the right wing generally would not see the > expropriation as a matter of mere semantics. That's precisely the point: they would immediately recognize the expropriation for what it is, irrespective of what it is called. I think it'd be a good idea for progressives to likewise avoid getting distracted by semantic distinctions. -raghu.
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