[lbo-talk] Origin of "privatization"

[c b]

andie_nachgeborenen
No, I didn't say the wealthy were duping the masses, although they
certainly do their best to make sure the masses don't have accurate
information or the time and means to find and process it. Whether the
views of elites and their supporters in subordinate groups are similar
is an empirical question and an important one. I don't think there has
been enough work on it. It hypothesize based on what I've read and
what I know that the differences are a matter of degree rather than
kind. Part of this is because the most effective ideology is promoted
by believers, and cynicism is a hard pose to maintain. The term
"useful tools," actually a softening of Lenin's expression "useful
idiots," is misleading. There is clearly a misalignment of interest.
Your neighbor, unlike Romney, say, has no interest in ensuring that he
cannot be insured, or insured for per-existing conditions. But Romney
can make repeal of the ACA, itself a gift to insurers, a top priority
as a campaigning point because people like your neighbor will support
it anyway, on the grounds that a program based on Romney's own state
healthcare program is "socialism."

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CB: And very critically, for this Reaganite era's right wingers,
"socialism" , like "tax-and-spend Liberalism" , is a code word for
"free stuff for Black people" paid for with right wingers' tax money;
the main way of dividing the working class, and uniting working class
conservatives with ruling class conservatives is fomenting white
supremacy in the working class.