05-31-2021, 08:56 AM
At this point several state legislatures have been establishing "reforms" intended to stifle discussion at the upper levels of K-12 education unless favoring the Hard Right while taking measures to entrench their power by making voting more difficult. It is easy to place upon them a Marxist caricature of plutocrats who believe that no human suffering can ever be excessive so long as it enhances, enforces, or indulges a profit.
This is 3T behavior among elites, the sort that one expects among those who expect the proles to recognize the lash of unemployment and the cold, hunger, and homeless that soon follow as necessary for causing people to accept the dreadful as the defense against the horrific.
It is a reasonable assumption that capitalism is most defensible when it does not fit a Marxist stereotype. It is up to the economic elites to decide whether capitalism works for all or works as a straw-man argument for someone who wants a proletarian revolution.
This is 3T behavior among elites, the sort that one expects among those who expect the proles to recognize the lash of unemployment and the cold, hunger, and homeless that soon follow as necessary for causing people to accept the dreadful as the defense against the horrific.
It is a reasonable assumption that capitalism is most defensible when it does not fit a Marxist stereotype. It is up to the economic elites to decide whether capitalism works for all or works as a straw-man argument for someone who wants a proletarian revolution.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.