[lbo-talk] David Graeber: Caring too much. That's the curse of the working classes

[Charles Brown]

The government doesn't turn the economy around. That would be a
centralized , planned economy ,which the US doesn't have.  The
problems with "the" economy are the private sector's responsibility.
Blame it on the capitalists, the Creditor class, Comrade Graeber

Charles

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> "One would think a government that has inflicted such suffering on
> those with the least resources to resist, without even turning the
> economy around, would have been at risk of political suicide. Instead,
> the basic logic of austerity has been accepted by almost everyone.
> Why? Why do politicians promising continued suffering win any
> working-class acquiescence, let alone support, at all?"
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/caring-curse-working-class-austerity-solidarity-scourge
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure
> mægen lytlað."
>
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