Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 08:19 PM
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:20 AM
by Stephen Fleischmann | April 7, 2008
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Let's get down to fundamentals.
The two warring Democratic candidates in the presidential election have their slogans.
Obama wants change. Hillary wants solutions. Yes, they discuss all
the issues that are fit to discuss. Even McCain talks about death and
taxes.
But nobody wants to take on the fundamentals--the source of the
status quo requiring change and the root cause of the problems for
which Hillary wants solutions. It's not just the economy, Stupid! It's
the system...to use a Clintonian euphemism.
A system based on greed, profit and exploitation of one class by
another will eventually land it in the ditch. You don't need Karl Marx
to tell you that. He made a landmark analysis of Capitalism in the 19th
Century and so far his predictions have been right on the money.
Empires fall--from the Roman to the German. They dig their own graves.
Capitalism, by its name and nature supports the rich, propertied and
corporate class. You don't have to be a rocket scientist or a Marxist
to see that. Competition between corporate entities, in various
nations, leads to monopoly and war. When corporations control a
government, it's Corporatism. We're in that stage of capitalism right
now. Benito Mussolini, pre-World War II dictator of Italy, gave it a
name. He called it Fascism.
For the capitalist system to survive--it must... [More]