Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism Archived Message Posted by Subhi on April 24, 2020, 5:41 pm "Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism" Glenn Ford The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration. The only cure is socialism. “The duopoly parties’ refusal to establish a national health care system, beginning with Medicare for All, can only be understood in the context of the Race to the Bottom.” If growing misery among the masses is what made revolutions, the Lords of Capital would have been deposed from their ruling perches long ago. But human beings do not spend their lives tallying cumulative assaults on their well being and dignity, and ruling classes are expert at blaming despised Others, foreign and domestic, for the ills of society. History shows us that economic crises do not become political crises that seriously threaten the ruling order until a critical mass of people come to the realization that the system itself is rotten, unbearable and incapable of meaningful reform. They must not only hate the rulers, but also hate the rulers’ system of governance more than they despise domestic Others and “threatening” foreigners. Otherwise, the Lords of Capital will simply find another face to represent their interests, defusing popular disconnect. The world is now experiencing a unique combination of pandemic and economic meltdown that will directly kill hundreds of thousands in the imperial United States and Europe and further consolidate the wealth and power of the ruling oligarchy, while wiping out whole sectors of the pre-crisis economy and leaving the vast majority of working class people far more precarious and insecure. But Black America has for generations been twice as unemployed, five times more incarcerated, one-tenth as wealthy, and infinitely more insecure of their space/place in “the system” than whites, who are themselves suffering unprecedented mortality from “diseases of despair.” “They must not only hate the rulers, but also hate the rulers’ system of governance.” The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration. But that’s the direction the Lords of Capital have been moving the U.S. political economy for at least forty years. It is already broadly understood that the oligarchy has been wildly successful in directing the great bulk of national and planetary wealth to their own pockets..." https://www.blackagendareport.com/diseased-system-shut-lockdown-never-better-time-fight-socialism Message Thread: Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism - Subhi April 24, 2020, 5:41 pm Nothing to lose but the chains nm - dan April 24, 2020, 9:35 pm   Searching