How to Save American Capitalism, in 809 Wordsby Ted Rall
American capitalism is broken. So is the Democratic-Republican duopoly that supports it. Neither can be fixed. The system is collapsing. A power vacuum is beginning to open.
As murderous as our dying system is, it still features a veneer of sanity. What comes next will certainly be worse. It will probably be Very Bad. Dictatorship? A 21st century po-mo variant of fascism? Warlordism? A Christianist Taliban-style terror state, as depicted in Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale"?
Before moronic right-wing tyrants seize power, I urge in my new book "The Anti-American Manifesto," the left should do it first. Well, first they have to become a big-L Left: organized, and with a program the people of the Soon-to-be Former United States of America can get behind....
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/10-3So this guys admits the thing he wants to preserve is murderous. He presumes that whatever comes next is certain to be worse.
Maybe the problem is he can't imagine anything else-
LIKE SOCIALISM.