The growing popularity of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and maverick
Republican Donald Trump will make the 2016 presidential election the
most interesting the rotten two party system has offered the voters in
the new century. Both of these unusual candidates agree that the
American Dream is dead.
As a democratic Socialist I am
delighted with Pope Francis' scathing criticism of global capitalism
that only reinforces the " progressive " message of Bernie Sanders.
People must begin to understand what Marxists understood more than a
century ago : the capitalist system is doomed .It can no longer serve
any progressive purpose. Even if it should stabilize again ( highly
unlikely ), it will offer idealistic young people nothing more than
vacuous adventures in consumerism -while it continues to ruin the Good
Earth
What it does offer the world right now is the
endless nightmare of war and economic misery. And the more irrational it
becomes the more its " intellectual " apologists sing it praises,
blathering that it is all about FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY and the GOOD LIFE.
But for whom - the ONE PERCENT ?
Just study the faces of these professional lackeys whenever the word SOCIALISM pops up in a positive way.
Karl Marx said in a footnote to Das Kapital : " To every dog his master is divine ".
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