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~~ Crisis In Capitalism ~~

san_jose_guy
money was invented for handing to women, but buying dances is a chump's game
Economics and the Contradictions of Capitalist Democracy
https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-gra…

What do you do when you find out that due to technological advances, only a portion of our labor force is needed to meet all hard consumer needs, and that our economy runs on the filling of very soft needs, and so many are being permanently pushed out of the work force?

Plan 1, Addressing the Problem, Saving Capitalism From Itself:

Establish high progressive income tax and spend the money to stabilize business cycles and transfer wealth downward to expand the economy. Worked for 40 years, until alienated Christian Fundamentalists entered the political sphere and voted a reactionary, Ronald Reagan, into office.

Plan 2, Destroying Our Society To Cover Up The Problem:

Step 1, Throw large numbers of jobless and otherwise poor into prisons, mental health system, and recovery, rehabilitation, and salvation programs. Spend money on these things, but never just on addressing actual economic need. Must always perpetuate work ethic.

Step 2, Invent doctrines to justify poverty as a problem of the poor themselves: Social Darwinism, Moral Reform.

Step 3, Invent even sexier doctrine to justify poverty as a problem of the poor themselves: Libertarianism.

Step 4, Gut the money from our public school system: Charter Schools Hoax.

Step 5, To perpetuate the system, let the system eat itself, gut environmental and worker protections, labor laws, and progressive taxation, pass anti-union laws: Rick Perry Red State Policies

Step 6, Make alliances with Christian Evangelicals: Paul Weyrich

Step 7, Use wedge issues like abortion and racism: Nixon Southern Strategy

Step 8, Wars on Drugs and on Terrorism: Geroge H. W. Bush

SJG

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