bruce
progressives may "want"
but capitalist masters get

key teeter totter
"protecting people, at home and abroad,
from ruthless exploitation"

glad you added "ruthless" there

because the prog has made peace with exploitation

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actually i find the prog dream state
a co dependent witch brew

a one step after the fighting
florence nightingale act

elated to be
a class struggle boo boo fixer

unable or unwilling
to fully encompass
what it means to work beside
or even inside
if not exactly for
a system based on human exploitation

and willing to peacefully co exist
with a power elite
that preserves a system
that by endemic requirement
generates on a mss and dynamic scale
degradation
punitive misery
to the body of the producng class
and by the same acts
civil shame
in the souls of the innocent

a corporate system
not only prone
to class based "mishaps "
mal functions
and other
nasty "just part of our american life " off gasings
but only sustainable thru the quest
for these dark sides of the moon

reform prog style ???

a total failure in conceptualizing
the task at hand

ultimately
the final verdict of the prog
who works to make "things " better
for jobbled folks :

this compromise
with the uncivil soul of the corporation

--nb:
from a position of relative comfort---

is obviously
the most brutal self endictment of all

in as much as progs
succeed in ameliorating
the corporate systems horrors
by upholstering and streamlining its rip saw passages
they can feel good about themselves
virtuous
even
while their own
inner
cadet party member
waits
ready to leap fort
in moments when all is at the tipping point...

progs on the few occasions when the climax arrives
end up doing their level virtue filled best
to block the way to system wide
over throw

their mission thru thick and thin remains this:

make exploitation easier
for all
if only escapable for some

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the choice remains

the personal consequences are obvious

either we
seek abolition
or
we work and pray
for a more humane slavery

Posted by: paine | Link to comment | October 01, 2008 at 01:04 PM

paine says...
fengula

u read like moses