The New 21st Century 18th Brumaire

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    alanjjohnstone
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    I thought this article was an interesting read if a bit longish

    The 18th Brumaire of Just About Everybody: the Rise of Authoritarian Strongmen and How to Prevent and Reverse It

    A good Marx quote

    “…Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy, is forthwith punished as an “assault upon society,“ and is branded as “Socialism.” ”

    Isn’t this what we witness in the US today by the right-wing Republicans and Fox TV?

    Sadly as provocative as the article is to read, the conclusions are a let-down.

    “…A “People’s Bretton Woods” could provide the vision, institutional arrangements (democratized workplaces and companies, publicly provided finance, unions and professional associations), and material base (a production not finance based real economy)…”

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