Comments on: Return of the Robber Barons http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/09/return-of-the-robber-barons/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mulga Mumblebrain http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/09/return-of-the-robber-barons/#comment-5561 Mulga Mumblebrain Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:51:48 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/09/return-of-the-robber-barons/#comment-5561 The endless cruelty and complete indifference to the suffering of others are the true trademarks of the 'Free Market'. They are even more notable in the Poor World, where Structural Adjustment Policies forced on poor countries since the '80's have devastated the poorest populations in the world. All accompanied by loathsome racist condescension and contempt. As the policies fail, and the reasons for the failure are demonstrable, the answer, courtesy of the fanatic ideology of Market Absolutism is always 'more of the same'. As the parasite class is not entirely cretinous, only morally and spiritually so, we can judge that the suffering thus inflicted is deliberate. As others have noted, Capitalism is a system of unnatural selection which rewards the worst people in society and punishes the rest. The scum, in this case psychopaths, floats to the top. It' s a formula for suicide, and the indifference to and denial of catastrophic climate change will be the means to that end, unless, a faint prospect to be sure, the entire parasite class and their compradores are removed from power, and very, very soon. The endless cruelty and complete indifference to the suffering of others are the true trademarks of the ‘Free Market’. They are even more notable in the Poor World, where Structural Adjustment Policies forced on poor countries since the ’80′s have devastated the poorest populations in the world. All accompanied by loathsome racist condescension and contempt. As the policies fail, and the reasons for the failure are demonstrable, the answer, courtesy of the fanatic ideology of Market Absolutism is always ‘more of the same’. As the parasite class is not entirely cretinous, only morally and spiritually so, we can judge that the suffering thus inflicted is deliberate. As others have noted, Capitalism is a system of unnatural selection which rewards the worst people in society and punishes the rest. The scum, in this case psychopaths, floats to the top. It’ s a formula for suicide, and the indifference to and denial of catastrophic climate change will be the means to that end, unless, a faint prospect to be sure, the entire parasite class and their compradores are removed from power, and very, very soon.

]]> By: Deadbeat http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/09/return-of-the-robber-barons/#comment-5343 Deadbeat Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:53:56 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/09/return-of-the-robber-barons/#comment-5343 <i>As Daniel Lazare argued recently in The Nation, “The standard account of American economic development since the 1970s, told and retold in countless undergraduate classrooms, is that economic deregulation and growth have done much to narrow the once-yawning wage gap between white and black workers. Unfortunately white workers didn't desire equality. That is why they, the "Reagan Democrats", voted for Reagan. As Daniel Lazare argued recently in The Nation, “The standard account of American economic development since the 1970s, told and retold in countless undergraduate classrooms, is that economic deregulation and growth have done much to narrow the once-yawning wage gap between white and black workers.

Unfortunately white workers didn’t desire equality. That is why they, the “Reagan Democrats”, voted for Reagan.

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