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In reply to the discussion: Chris Hedges: The Great Unraveling [View all]AOR
(692 posts)destroying everything that gets in its way. Capitalism and the ruling class don't give a shit who is elected as long as its foundations of institutionalized theft of labor and impoverishment of the many for the profits of the few remain intact. When Hedges was nothing more than a defeatist, disaffected, liberal claiming leftist status he didn't get it at all. He gets it much more now since he's been actually calling out capitalism by name as the problem rather than "corporatism and plutocracy and evil Republicans."
Asking the capitalist ruling class to "control their greed" while the capitalist power structure remains in tact is not clarity or reality.
To paraphrase one from Malcolm..."You put a fox in the chicken coop and are
surprised when it starts to kill the chickens."
Capitalism is the fox and the working class are the chickens. The destruction of the chickens will
continue until the fox is gone. The sooner the believers in capitalism as "the end of history" and the "highest and final achievement of mankind " get that the better off we'll be. Until then it's all band-aids on broken limbs.