"This is what I find so heartbreaking. The age I live in is an age of thieves; an age in which the triumph, not of freedom, but of "capitalism", is trumpeted from the rooftops; in which the principles of so-called free enteprise (actually an anti-competitive conspiracy of feudal big business powers) are bragged without doubt or shame, and as if they had anything to do with individual freedom - whereas what they really amount to is the disenfranchisement of the majority of the people and the effective neutering of democracy. Is it possible, is it necessary, that the only alternative to revolutionary tyranny and massacre should be the brutal, vulgar, self-satisfied rule of the swindler and the thief?"
Your essay pre-dated both the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street. Since you linked this entry to camillofan's entry just yesterday, I assume your feeling haven't changed all that much. I myself am trying to process just exactly what I think of the Occupy movement and haven't really reached a satisfactory answer as of yet.
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Your essay pre-dated both the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street. Since you linked this entry to