Many on Smirking Chimp do not realize how they are water-carriers for the oligarchic class rule that has destroyed the United States, not to mention the vast majority of the planet —destroyed its existing infrastructures, its future potentials, and its very knowledge of its development and history. Ignorance comes in many forms, and the worst is ideologized blindness to facts. That blindness is not actually willed for nor even known by capitalist water-carriers; many think themselves progressive and leftist, and to a limited extent, they are. Ignorance is not the fault of the ignorant!, it must be emphasized. We are not hayseeds here. We are critical thinkers, and we rely upon and base our very personas upon information, and being informed.
Three critical items written into the Program of the Socialist Equality Party, quoted below, outline why it is that the socialism that has always been reviled in the US is not the socialist vision of the present Socialist Equality Party, which is newly formed.
37. In the course of the great industrial strikes of the 1930s, which included the occupation of factories and pitched battles with the police in many major cities, American workers built a powerful national trade union organization, the CIO. In 1955, following its merger with the older federation of craft-based unions, nearly one-third of workers in privately-owned companies were members of the AFL-CIO. And yet even during its post-World War II heyday—which coincided with the international economic dominance of the United States—the AFL-CIO was crippled by its reactionary politics. The AFL-CIO accepted wholeheartedly the legitimacy of the capitalist profit system, was ferociously hostile to socialism, and sought to purge the unions, frequently with the use of violence, of left-wing, anti-capitalist influences. In keeping with its loyalty to capitalism, the AFL-CIO aligned itself with the Democratic Party, bitterly opposing all efforts to free the trade unions from the political domination of big business. Finally, the trade unions were ferociously nationalistic and identified the interests of the working class entirely with the imperialist policies of the ruling class.
38. Resting on these rotten foundations, the trade unions have proven incapable of defending even the most minimal interests of the working class, let alone improving its standard of living. For the last 30 years, the policies of the trade unions have brought workers nothing but defeats. The percentage of union-affiliated workers employed in the private sector is at its lowest level since the early 1900s! But the revenues of the union bureaucracy, composed of middle-class functionaries, are guaranteed by the services it performs for the corporations. In terms of policies and aims, there is no significant distinction between the corporations and the unions.
39. To hope that these corrupt, corporate-controlled organizations can be transformed, after decades of betrayals, into instruments of social struggle is to indulge in futile illusions. The failure of the AFL-CIO exposes, in the final analysis, the bankruptcy of its nationalist, capitalist and class-collaborationist program. A resurgence of working class struggle can be based only on a program that recognizes that the capitalist system has failed. The answer to this crisis will not be found in appeals to the corporations and the politicians they control for the reform of capitalism. Rather, the Socialist Equality Party insists on the struggle for workers’ power and the socialist reorganization of society, within the United States and internationally.
These three paragraphs of the SEP Program baldly point the finger at the rot in the US social condition, what is ignorantly reified as (called) 'the working class' and 'the economy' in common speech and vernacular, a vernacular that I might add is roundly seeded about in the breadth of Liberal and Progressive discourse. This discourse is passionate and well intended, but, lamentably, is in error. It does not understand the science of its discontent.
The formation of the post-industrial working class grew into being a robust middle class. That middle class is now destroyed, a small fraction of the once large majority of American people. The post-industrial working class was comprised of independent business owners, factory workers, farmers, entrepreneurs and inventors, and shoe-shine kids. Everybody who worked for wages, in short.
No longer. Or, actually, not since the early 1970s. The decline began over three generations ago. We are now beset with the wasteland of its demise.
The US Socialist Equality Party is aggressively moving forward in formalizing its electoral platform along established, lawful procedures, while at the same time seeking to enlist rational people in breaking the back of the present two-party-only corrupt electoral system.
Many third parties are now a necessity. The rampant rise of the Teabagging movement is testament to the capacity of a third party, informal though the Teabagging Party is, to rock the boat. Rocking the boat is now imperative, or we die. It's quite stark.
Quoting again:
25. There is no denying the fact that there exists a vast disparity between the historic character of the political and social tasks that confront American workers and their existing level of consciousness. But the program of a genuinely revolutionary party must be based on a scientific analysis of objective reality, not on impressionistic and usually false conceptions of what workers may or may not be prepared to accept. As Leon Trotsky, the founder of the Fourth International, explained: “Our tasks don’t depend on the mentality of the workers. The task is to develop the mentality of the workers. That is what the program should formulate and present before the advanced workers.” Moreover, the Socialist Equality Party emphatically rejects the claim, advanced by all sorts of demoralized skeptics, that the American working class is incapable of mounting a revolutionary challenge to capitalism and will never accept the need for socialism. This politically bankrupt outlook, infused with the sickly spirit of defeatism, is based on a rejection of the laws of history and the lessons of past struggles.
26. The history of the American working class is one of difficult and relentless struggle. The story of its slow advance, in the face of the brutal resistance of the capitalist class, is written in blood. From the earliest class battles of railroad workers in the 1870s and the fight for the eight-hour day in the 1880s, to the establishment of mass industrial unions in the 1930s, the working class shed its blood and gave up its martyrs to end the naked tyranny of the employers. In the aftermath of World War II, the great wave of strikes that swept over every sector of industry wrested concessions from employers that led to a rapid rise in living standards. These struggles, in turn, inspired the great battles of African-American workers for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s, which found broad support among working people and youth.
27. But the Achilles heel of the working class lay in the absence of an independent mass socialist movement, guided by Marxist theory.
People refuse to acknowledge that Marxism is a scientific theory.
Its entire basis is objective analysis. Not demagogy, not faith based, and not irrational.
It is a cogent analytical dissection of how the structures of Economy inter-relate. That analysis yields a history. That history describes, and very clearly so at that. This history is not obfuscatory, as is the history that is taught by capitalist ideology.
Marxist theory and practice is not a slave to money. Capitalist theory and practice is a slave to money. Money is a history. A teleology. A tool. We are trained to not understand that. We are trained to not realize that Marxist theory is highly compatible with Libertarianism, as well. That training is, well... training, and that which can be learned can also be augmented and expanded. I say that as food for serious thought.
The Socialist Equality Party is conducting a series of meetings throughout the United States to introduce its program, “The Breakdown of Capitalism and the Fight for Socialism in the United States.” These meetings are open to all. They are strategy sessions.
Above all, they are an open declaration that there is another way to fight against our bondage.
All that is required at these meetings is a willing heart, a critical mind, and the capacity to tell the difference between right and wrong. The SEP grows out of objective science and the knowledge of what is right, and what is wrong.
A full description of the movement is available at the link just above, including an itinerary of the forthcoming meetings and their locations. I hope that you can join us in this vital discussion and social relation. It is vital to your future, our future, the future.
Join us, and welcome. The future awaits.
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Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit.
A verbis ad verbera.
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preaching to .. one choir member... anyway
Marx was right about capitalism. We prove it each and every day.
Pure socialism, though, suffers the same fate as capitalism. When implemented by hominids, who have an irresistable urge to .. hoard, it also falls apart rather quickly. It just serves more of the masses better while the few rape and pillage.
I'd take that today. It would be better than what the Rs and Ds will ever do.
_______"there comes a time in every man's life, and it usually does." -- Yogi
pure socialism? no such animal
Well, we do have to carry the message, eh? {grin} if we are to think of ourselves as involved. If we're isolated, then no need to carry any message(s). We're seeking a better way; we can't constrict ourselves into thinking that there is a best or only answer. Socialism is a better answer, and as you say, we've proven why by negation. It bears repeating that socialism is not Stalinist soviet communism at all, and the vision that Lenin had was subverted. (Western industrialists made very effective attempts at poisoning the project; Stalin was the result. Stalin got his power from Western capitalist industrialist largesse, truth be known.)
Socialism is social. If there is some such purity, it is only that. It's so complex I don't think we could ever isolate any kind of purity in the matter, not even intellectually.
Socialist economics and socialist governance are methods. Nothing can be pure in such methods. They're hybrids. Socialism envisions cooperation, not competition. Competition in a social setting is death-dealing. As rational creatures, we have the capacity to overcome this. We're not animals; we can learn not to compete.
Socialism is not an abstraction, as you well know, PV. Socialism is capitalism done correctly. Socialism is righteous capitalism; harnessed capitalism. The same cannot be said of capitalism itself. Capitalism to the exclusion of socialism is, as has been and as has happened, death incarnate. Destruction. 'Social' doesn't destroy, it simply relates.
Socialism is difficult. Yes. Capitalism seeks to make things easy; things aren't easy. Capitalism tries to make people into objects, and largely succeeds precisely because the social is the primary thing that is cut out in the capitalist paradigm. The social is killed. (If there is anything social at all going on, then, it cannot by essence be a capitalist endeavor that is being realized.) It is this killing of the social that makes capitalism a wholesale wrongness. Economics is merely a facet of results under any set of conditions; it is not a sine qua non. The fallacy that economics is a sine qua non is a core delusion of capitalism.
Hope to see you at one of the SEP meetings. Meanwhile, what is sorely lacking here are the Choir actually discussing socialism!, I might add.
_______Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit.
A verbis ad verbera.
The AFL-CIO accepted
The AFL-CIO accepted wholeheartedly the legitimacy of the capitalist profit system, was ferociously hostile to socialism, and sought to purge the unions, frequently with the use of violence, of left-wing, anti-capitalist influences.
Jeezze, are you both delusional, ignorant and or psychotic?
Communism, Socialism and all other Progressive and Liberal movements have failed miserably, have never worked and will never work! Check the rate of Europe's GDP growth since WW-II. It is a failure of the root thought possesses! It is absolutely imposable to have, or legislate equal outcomes in any endeavor! You are not as smart, knowledgeable, dedicated, disciplined, ambitious, or hard working as I am! You will never earn as much, be as happy, or successful as I will. You are not as fast, strong, agile, dexterous and perceptive as I am, and you will never be as successful at any sport as I will be. It is one of natures great laws, we are all different. Diversity in it's most basic form! Just as I am better than you are, there are others who are just as much better than I am at any endeavor! That is not the point, the point is that Capitalism gives more people the chance to rise to the highest pinnacle that their skills, ambition, dedication, discipline, knowledge and intelligence will take them. The collarary of that is that those who's skills, knowledge and other traits are less than ours, will not be as successful as you, or maybe not.
_______NeoConShooter, Been there and done that! That too!
yes, shooter, you're correct
If you take the time and get your head out of your ass to read what the SEP Platform states, you'll find that you're not only correct (although not right) about the AFL-CIO. Thank you for your rant.
Thank you also for the one star. I deem that a win.
Your first Error is using (and thinking) the word "equal" —there is nothing that has EVER said anything about 'equal' under socialism. 'Equal' is a product and creature of the libertarian equality paradigm born under the French Revolution, shooter.
Socialism is about balance, not equal.
Europe's GDP is Europe's GDP. It doesn't say a rat's ass about any other GDP.
Capitalism does indeed give you ("people" as you put it) the ability to "rise to the highest pinnacle that their skills, ambition, dedication, discipline, knowledge and intelligence will take them. The collarary of that is that those who's skills, knowledge and other traits are less than ours, will not be as successful as you, or maybe not."
At what cost? The cost to this under capitalism me me me is unbearable to survival, to the planet, to rising to being HUMAN. In your universe, you're an animal.
And FYI, socialism provides for you the exact same avenue to rise to your potential. YOU are your capacity. Capitalism is NOT your capacity.
By the way: "The collarary of that is that those who's skills, knowledge and other traits are less than ours, will not be as successful as you, or maybe not" —as you put it— means from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs — a fundamental socialist tenet arising from the 1860s.
You're brainwashed.
_______Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit.
A verbis ad verbera.
no he is not correct
he is a run of the mill boilerplate cookie cutter post-hypnotic good german nazi fucktard parroting the lies of murdoch and clearchannel.
You are guilty of the common liberal flaw of attributing validity to everyone .. on principle.
_______"there comes a time in every man's life, and it usually does." -- Yogi
{grin}
guilty as charged about the principle thing. It's a better person to honor principle. It's quite another thing to attribute validity; I pointedly invalidated his reality. The principle is humanitarian and just; I'm not validating anything there other than the animalness of shooter's very very fucking brainwashed ideas.
These fucktards are hung up on the word 'equal' — socialism is about equality. Balance. They are fucking afraid of losing, and that's a totally capitalist thing. Greed. Greed can't abide equality.
More than murdoch and clearchannel; this is a totally American thing, this attitude of his (assuming gender; gender unknown).
It comes from the Brits, not the Germans (actually, Prussian, btw). The German nastiness is not smarmy like the English-American attitude is. The Germanic Prussian perspective is straight up, and you know where you stand; the English-American ideology is all about sandbagging through language, and this is why he's so damned confused. He doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
_______Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit.
A verbis ad verbera.
Shooter, you're such a sycophantic kiss ass..
I'm sure your ringmasters are very proud of you! That big ol' brown ring around your suck-up beak is really obvious now though. Hope it tastes good, because it smells really bad to the rest of us.
This is especially rich...
You are not as smart, knowledgeable, dedicated, disciplined, ambitious, or hard working as I am! You will never earn as much, be as happy, or successful as I will. You are not as fast, strong, agile, dexterous and perceptive as I am, and you will never be as successful at any sport as I will be.
Yes indeed! You are so special, in your fevered imagination.
Oh, I'm sorry. Is that too much left wing hate for you? Then go back home to wherever you came from and whine about it to your mommy.
_______Have you torqued a wingnut today?
Republicans want less government for the same reason criminals want less cops.
there IS such a thing as society
When Thatcher uttered her evil phrase 'there is no such thing as society,' we beheld a Monster, an anti-social creature. Such creatures do need to be excised from the community, and in such certain cases with extreme prejudice.
_______Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit.
A verbis ad verbera.
America's confusion with socialism and communism.
Mr. Richards----- you have been very busy on your computer the last few days and I have viewed your various pedantic narratives on the Second Civil War, Communism and Socialism. It seems obvious that you are quite knowledgeable on the subject, passionate and unfortunately arrogant! You state that you are an academic intellectual and your awareness of a variety of books written by intellectuals who seem to agree with you or is it vice versa? You seem to have very arbitrary concepts which do not seem to coincide with the general American attitude on these very controversial “ ISMS “. The phrase “you have a right to your own opinion, but not your own facts “that may be a little strong since I am certain you have researched all the materials you provided, unfortunately there is room to consider the interpretation of much of this material----- this comment is actually an addenda to one that I made on your blog Second Civil War so there is no use repeating our disagreements. You seem so dedicated to your position that I doubt that you will give a damn about my opinion anyway.
I would have to mention one thing, the Joe McCarthy hearings which investigated communism and United States and accused some Hollywood writers and some people that government but somehow missed all of those that you state were backers and financial supporters of Joseph Stalin and his regime which was not either socialistic or communistic but some form of anti-American capitalism. It is also obvious that our media, intelligence agencies and most of the US population were not aware of all of this Russian underground that was operating right under our noses. There are many people in this nation who feel that our intellectual elite are coordinating with our oligarchy to rule this nation as a religious based Plutocracy but this seems problematic because right now we are not even being ruled as a Republic or Democracy------- does this mean that we are in a state of Anarchy !
During my years in business we hired a great many intellectuals who had brilliant minds but had a great deal of difficulty verbally relating in a normal business setting. When I was writing advertising copy I was advised that I should write at a sixth grade level in order to reach the general populace. I had a great test for determining my level of intellect, could I go into a trendy bar, sports bar or a saloon and sit down and have a interesting and informative discussion with the patrons and do it on their level----I found I was very successful in doing that!
The following comment was originally put on M. Richards blog Second Civil War
M. Richards----I have to admit that I am confused because you have thoroughly described communism, socialism and capitalism but then you thoroughly explain they ain’t what us commoners thought they were. For years when Joe Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union our schools were teaching our kids how to hide a under their desks because the communists were going to send nuclear ballistic missiles to blow up our capitalist society. Then you go on to explain that Russia was not actually a communist state under Joe. Somewhere in your various explanations you point out that we were probably not a capitalist nation based on other information that you were aware of. On top of that would we thought was socialism was actually socialism but not as we understood it. Apparently there is a right type of socialism but it is not on the left. Apparently the Democratism which the Republicanism Partyism claim is socialism but it is really the bad type of capitalism!
Before I get too far into this discussion I want to thank you for pointing out to MM. that an error that she felt I had made was excusable because I never claimed I was an academic intellectual. While she was literally correct I was reading point out that Socialism and communism have not been favored in the US because we felt there was a correlation between the bad Russia and and China before they became the good Russia and going China. I had a unique knowledge of China because there were so many motion pictures about that faraway land before World War II(by the way I knew quite a bit about Chiang Kai-shek because I served in the Pacific and he was one of our Allies). I didn’t go into this detail in my original blog but now I did want to point out that while I am not an academic intellectual I am also not stupid.
It is obvious that you feel strongly about some type of positive socialism and are a member of a group promoting this concept for the United States. If you could come up with 60 Bernie Sanders in the Senate I would think hard and long about it. Unfortunately there are only one of him and it would take a unique state like Vermont to put him in office.
What I am trying to do is to promote some form of Beneficent Democracy that would drastically minimize the gap between the wealthy and poor. I love the creativity of business, the innovative activities that Americans are good at, I am strongly in favor of unions because there are many jobs where individuality cannot be judged. This system worked well for us between 1950 and 2000 except for the eight years of Reaganomics. In fact if Bush Cheney had not been put in office by the Supreme Court I do not believe that our current crisis would have reached this level of cricism!
So M. Richards I certainly hope you continue to work on your approach for the betterment of America and I will try to find some way to change the face of this nation of angry people into a nation of happy and satisfied human beings!
geneyes
_______geneyes
It seems to me
That some of you have put your nasty shoes on. I thought we didn't do that on the Chimp. You might not like Socialism, but please don't tell me how great Capitalism is working today, especially since some chose to name call someone who thinks some other system might be worth considering.
The constant growth that Capitalism requires has had it's day, the world's resources are dictating that right now. We cannot and will not continue of this eternal growth , it ain't gonna happen.
The present day attack on unions , pension plans and government workers is a not too recognized sign that the growth era is over. They cannot afford us working men to aspire to secure jobs, decent wages and a retirement at the end of our careers. If the growth era was going to continue they would be arguing for the growth of all those named above because they would have bucks and would spend it, not play casino like games with it.
We need a new name for whatever vehicle we are going to use in the future. Democrat, Republican, and Socialist all have a bad aura attached to them.
_______All for one, one for all
We did our time, let us collect our dimes
The Grey Tiger
Progressivism
Progressivists still fits the bill.
What needs to happen is that socialism needs to be shouted at the roof tops as the core values of progressivism.
So, the values of socialism need to be shouted and shouted and shouted, and that shouting needs to shout that no Republican is progressivist of this kind.
I'll say again and again: profit and commerce are core requirements and values in socialism. Nobody is going to take away your profit. Your excessive profits will be plowed back into the soil because you do not need excess profits. You will always generate excess profit, whether you like it or not.
But if you insist in living in your cave not paying taxes, then you're anti-social to the core, and a menace. You pay taxes because you pay taxes. Keep your profit, but don't cheat. You got to the hot place for cheating.
If you're a Christian, you believe in socialism and socialist values. If you insist on capitalism, you're no Christian.
That is all.
_______Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit.
A verbis ad verbera.
Mark, this is beginning to sound sellable. Keep it up!
As a commoner, this appeals to me.
The Christian brotherhood is a very nice touch, and it is just the opposite of the hate-filled exclusionary things that the right is selling as Christianity. This is exactly in line with Jesus' teachings.
Suggestion:
You pay taxes because taxes provide the nation with things people need. No taxes, no nation, simple as that.
The Christian brotherhood
There actually is a socialist church in secular Sweden, literally translated: Christian Brotherhood.
It seems to me that the US is keeping up a 19th century political battle between conservatives and liberals. Here it´s between a liberal wing and a socialistic wing. They are about equal and both pretty much Social Democrats. No one would even suggest taking away such things as universal health care or a general pension for all.
Btw, Sweden has strong unions and is economically thriving. Even American corporations, such as Hannifin Parker pneumatics, have several plants here. They pay union wages, general social insurance taxes, 6 week payed vacations etc.
America certainly needs a pinch or a few barrels of socialism. Inequality of income is bad for business, lack of humanity is also bad for the economy. USA has an income inequality comparable to third world countries.
_______Lived in the US end of Nixon thru end of Clinton.
Gini coefficient
The Gini coefficient - a commonly used measure of inequality of wealth - the recognized warning level is 0.4.
The US has been above that level since 1980.
_______Lived in the US end of Nixon thru end of Clinton.
The Irony of political rhetoric, even propaganda, is that once
you bring a populist idea or ideas into the public domain, and citizens agree with those ideas and buy into them, it forces opposing political forces to come up with their versions of the same ideas, and this moves the political spectrum right or left and to closer to where you want it to be.
You will note that this is what the conservatives did and this allowed the unilateral wet dreams of the oligarchy to have nearly complete free rein over everything after the Democratic party moved a little too far to the right.
Both mainstream parties,once the political spectrum moved far enough to the right,in large part,abandoned notions of satisfying the will and needs of ordinary citizens. The Teabaggers might not be successful, but they will pull even old time Republicans and certainly Democrats even further to the right, and away from progressive ideology and rights of common people.
If Progressivism wants to sell itself to the public, it must keep the message simple and attached to the tried-and true that people understand.
Using religious themes is a good idea, and Progressivism might promote Christlike love and brotherhood to those with a strong Christian attachment to Jesus teachings. For other religions, it can simply teach the wonderful brotherhood/golden rule, and caring for all philosophies that are contained within them.
One group that has been sorely neglected in the US, as the Corporate structures take over the nation, are the small businesspeople. They are being crushed by corporate power and monopolies. Old time Republicans and Democrats both once courted these groups, but no more.
They are ignored and crushed by Wall Street and by Corporate globalists, and are ripe for being turned back toward the left a bit.
Socialism has a terrible record with these people, and that needs to change. This is where Socialist arrogance really hurt them. When Socialists tried to regulate corporate America, they ended up dumping on small businesspeople and not supporting them, and corporate America used this to crush competition.
The small businessperson cannot afford a harsh fine for OSHA violations, but for the big corporations, this is chump change, and they simply pay their fines year after year instead of reforming their practices with expensive cleanups. The small businessperson can afford neither.
If they are treated realistically, small businesspeople are a ready made support group for a new Progressive Party movement. And if small businesspeople prosper, this will build competition that might, at some point, break the monopolies that the corporations hold over everything.
What I am saying is that a Progressive party would have to be truly progressive, and not just a lot of bullshit.
This is why Democrats are in trouble now. Lots of talk and a very slow walk, and the center of the political spectrum is moving rapidly further to the right and far away from where they once were, and they keep feeling obliged to play tag along.
Now, we have moved into corporate controlled fascism, but with some very strange twists that are closely related to people of all parties being pulled by our oligarchy in directions that they really might not have wanted to go, especially when it comes to deconstructing America because the rulers have given up on it and its people.
In the human heart, hope springs eternal, and if Progressives provide hope, they will attract attention. This is what FDR did. He might have been from the elite, but he told a story that people understood, and then found that the story fulfilled itself, and even his own expectations, with lots of good being the result as he began to believe the story himself.
The human mind is malleable, and this is our hope, to bring the political spectrum back across the scale where more people will benefit from Progressive policies.
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there is such a thing as Purists
Balance. Purism cannot abide balance. Liberation theology seeks to restore balance in an unjust world teaching. It is not new; it goes back to the late 50s. The politics of theology are a severe limitation upon this.
There is such a thing as Too Much. The reigning paradigm with the OSHA thing, for example, is that these kinds of regulatory laws currently have to (are designed to) apply to any and all without distinction. A literal hammer to which all is a nail.
Who started this? the Noble Equalists, of whatever and all stripes. It quickly became a mess.
Who corrupted this? Big Business. They did use every rhetoric available to make damned sure that they would outspend, outstrip, and outleverage precisely in order to ensure that monopoly capitalism would thrive. The courts were stacked, the legislation was stacked, the Pablum fed the people was stacked. This comes from the Inverted Fairness doctrine, where what is fair to the average person must also be equally fair to the most powerful who least need the protection for other reasons. It's one of the proverbial Slippery Slopes.
This is how Growth happens. Little businesses with compensatory protections *do* grow out of that, but because there is no graduated progressive growth compensation in place, they continue to grow and grow with the same blanket protection of the littlest guy. The little guy takes it up the ass, and Justicyness is served. With strong and enforced regulation that is graduated, this won't happen. If it does, there is certainly a flaw that needs to be addressed FIRST by mechanism that ensure swift change and not the current legal paper-blizzard stonewalling for 20 years that corpocrats permit, and desire. In reverse fashion, OSHA regulations are aimed at dangerous high-level production facilities, which tend to be pretty big businesses. Small businesses have scaled safety regulations. OSHA also has been used to enforce labor practices such as *no talking about unions* and stuff like that which are not occupational safety and health. Why? because the labor boards and so forth were raped by Big Business, with the help of trojan horse destabilizers inside unions themselves.
Sadly, this won't change in the foreseeable future. It has to happen organically along informal lines, which is to be parsoc, or participatory society, i.e. socialism.
Churches that actually preach their socialism and *call* it socialism are going to be the evangelical wave of the future. They get their communities involved.
We have already seen how that will be repressed: liberation theology is and was repressed by death squads all over the third world. Many many of those death squads were fielded by staunch evangelical protestants, and assisted by reactionary catholics. It is a horrific story to behold, how these People of God murder.
_______Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit.
A verbis ad verbera.
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