Dmytri Kleiner wrote:
>
> Um, she is joking. The article ends with:
>
> --- start quote ---
>
> Global capitalism will survive the current credit crisis; already, the
> government has rushed in to soothe the feverish markets. But in the
> long term, a system that depends on extracting every last cent from the
> poor cannot hope for a healthy prognosis. Who would have thought that
> foreclosures in Stockton and Cleveland would roil the markets of London and
> Shanghai? The poor have risen up and spoken; only it sounds less like a
> shout of protest than a low, strangled, cry of pain.
I suspected that might be the case, but still didn't bother to continue. And note her "in the long term...." That is almost as silly as her joke. Class society has flourished for about 5000 years, and to say it cannot hope for a healthy prognosis is mere wishful-thinking. If you don't hit it, it won't fall -- and only at rare intervals does it, for a very brief period, become vulnerable to being hit. Those periods are unpredictable, and cannot be willed into existence. Mere moral outrage of a few, or even quite a few, won't do it.
Carrol