The brutal dominations of big capital and sheer money power are everywhere on the defensive.
Surely the exact opposite is the case. Big capital and money power are on the offensive everywhere dismantling social safety nets, cutting pensions and wages, weakening labor rights etc. etc. often with cooperation of nominally socialist or leftist governments as in Greece.
Cheers, ken
________________________________ From: John E. Norem <jenorem at cox.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 4:21:33 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] David Harvey
David Harvey—The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis
ByDavid Harvey <http://www.versobooks.com/blogs?post_author=1105>/ 28 October 2011
The Party of Wall Street has ruled unchallenged in the United States for far too long. It has totally (as opposed to partially) dominated the policies of Presidents over at least four decades (if not longer), no matter whether individual Presidents have been its willing agents or not. It has legally corrupted Congress via the craven dependency of politicians in both parties upon its raw money power and access to the mainstream media that it controls. Thanks to the appointments made and approved by Presidents and Congress, the Party of Wall Street dominates much of the state apparatus as well as the judiciary, in particular the Supreme Court, whose partisan judgments increasingly favor venal money interests, in spheres as diverse as electoral, labor, environmental and contract law.
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/777-david-harvey-the-party-of-wall-street-meets-its-nemesis
-- Adorno: "And in that sense the difference between thinking and eating roast goose is not so very great. The one thing can stand in for the other."
Horkheimer: "But eating roast goose is not the same thing as doing theory."
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