[lbo-talk] 15-M

[Chuck Grimes]

The results of the recent Greek elections, which have to be repeated on 17 
June; the French elections, ousting a very right-wing president and 
installing another whose message (very weak, to be sure) is opposition to 
the present supposedly anti-crisis measures; and the mobilisation in the 
streets of several cities of the Kingdom of Spain by the Occupy movement now 
generally known as 15-M (15May Movement) are three events in three spaces 
that are very different in political terms. What they have in common is that 
they are all mixed-bag expressions of the discontent of populations 
suffering the harshest consequences of economic and social policies that are 
preying on the non-affluent majority

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/29/beyond-indignation/

I think this is a good essay both for its ideas, facts, and its tone. I am 
getting to the point of believing that the only way to break the grip of 
financial systems on both the economy and the political system, is to break 
the economy, intentionally crash it.

CG