Two Americas
12-14-2009, 04:14 PM
Everything has to be overturned. There aren't any half-measures that are going to accomplish anything. Those are being thrown out there by people so they can avoid the truth and distract others from the truth. There is not going to be any health care reform, global warming is not going to be stopped, jobs are not coming back, wages are not going to improve. There is no way to reform the system, there is no way to make it work, there is no way to fix things.
The degree to which critical commentary on any issue leads people to see that it all must come down, it is constructive and powerful to that degree. The degree to which it leads people to think that we are or could be "doing something" to "solve" that particular problem in isolation, without challenging the entire system, is the degree to which it is destructive and reactionary.
There are not some good things about the system that we need to worry about saving, with some bad things that need to be "regulated" or overcome through "doing something" or making personal changes. The self-censorship (or denial) that so many are indulging in, supposedly in order to persuade people without "offending" them, to avoid "alienating potential friends and allies," and the whole idiotic "winning friends and influencing people" approach must end.
It all has to come down, and there is no reason to hesitate or be cautious in our critical commentary, no reason to entertain the "on the other hand" stuff that people put out there to mitigate our criticism - actually to oppose our critical view in a covert and deceptive way. Attack every aspect of it everyday everywhere with everyone. Capitalism has distorted, corrupted, and perverted all of our social relations and arrangements, everywhere. Nothing is free from its clutch. Nothing positive can exist within it. It all has to come down, it all must be overturned.
All of the "OK I see what you are saying, and agree with you, but what is your plan?" responses are also covert opposition and are reactionary. Here is the plan - it all must come down. Would we tell people to not treat pneumonia until and unless they have a plan for the rest of their lives, or a guarantee that the disease will be eliminated once and for all by their plan and that everything will then be perfect? The society is ill, the disease is Capitalism, and it has spread to all parts and is destroying everything.
"But can't we just keep a few slaves, and ban whipping and shackles?" No. It all must come down.
The degree to which critical commentary on any issue leads people to see that it all must come down, it is constructive and powerful to that degree. The degree to which it leads people to think that we are or could be "doing something" to "solve" that particular problem in isolation, without challenging the entire system, is the degree to which it is destructive and reactionary.
There are not some good things about the system that we need to worry about saving, with some bad things that need to be "regulated" or overcome through "doing something" or making personal changes. The self-censorship (or denial) that so many are indulging in, supposedly in order to persuade people without "offending" them, to avoid "alienating potential friends and allies," and the whole idiotic "winning friends and influencing people" approach must end.
It all has to come down, and there is no reason to hesitate or be cautious in our critical commentary, no reason to entertain the "on the other hand" stuff that people put out there to mitigate our criticism - actually to oppose our critical view in a covert and deceptive way. Attack every aspect of it everyday everywhere with everyone. Capitalism has distorted, corrupted, and perverted all of our social relations and arrangements, everywhere. Nothing is free from its clutch. Nothing positive can exist within it. It all has to come down, it all must be overturned.
All of the "OK I see what you are saying, and agree with you, but what is your plan?" responses are also covert opposition and are reactionary. Here is the plan - it all must come down. Would we tell people to not treat pneumonia until and unless they have a plan for the rest of their lives, or a guarantee that the disease will be eliminated once and for all by their plan and that everything will then be perfect? The society is ill, the disease is Capitalism, and it has spread to all parts and is destroying everything.
"But can't we just keep a few slaves, and ban whipping and shackles?" No. It all must come down.