"But what of the contemporary crusade to liberate world markets?

[patrice]

The coups, wars and slaughters to install and maintain pro-corporate regimes have never been treated as capitalist crimes but have instead been written off as the excesses of oversealous dictators, as hot fronts of the Cold War, and now of the War on Terror. IF THE MOST COMMITTED OPPOENTS OF THE CORPORATIST ECONOMIC MODEL ARE SYSTEMATICALLY ELIMINATED, WHETHER IN ARGENTINA IN THE SEVENTIES OR IN IRAQ TODAY, THAT SUPPRESSION IS EXPLAINED AS PART OF THE DIRTY FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM OR TERRORISTS - ALMOST NEVER AS THE FIGHT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PURE CAPITALISM." (emphasis added)

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

I think this is an interesting passage, because, in today's domestic political environment (and specifically in re the discussions about National Health Care), I would include Socialism in "...explained as part of the dirty fight against (Socialism, or) Communism or terrorists...."

As someone in our Obama platform meeting said yesterday, if we self edit our demands now, because we fear being identified as "unrealistic" or "Socialist" or "not PC", that part of the spectrum will be missing from the national debate on these issues.

Solidarity, All!