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Sunday, April 24, 2016

American capitalism makes so many middle aged males suicidal " losers ".

Suicide rate shows what ?
  For a socialist perspective on this sure sign of growing middle age despair I recommend recently published articles on the World Socialist Web Site  ( www.wsws.org/   )   An anti-dote to this despair -at least as a beginning of a New Beginning- is the " political revolution " of Bernie Sanders. Class inequality goes far beyond race in explaining the rising " misery index " in America .

   For more than a century much has been written about the " alienation " of the working class -and the often insecure or desperate middle class - under capitalism. This alienation plants the seeds of mental illness in millions of individuals -branded " losers " by a soulless, consumerist capitalist culture of narcissism.

   Today at noon in Roger Williams Park, Providence, Bernie Sanders brings his campaign theme of ending unacceptable economic inequality and having a " future to believe in ".

How many Willy Loman types are there in this very depressed state of Rhode Island ? Says Willy's wife in Arthur Millier's classic play " Death of a Salesman " : " attention must be paid to this man ".
No surprise " progressive " writer Arthur Miller was vilified in the McCarthy era by the House Un-American Activities Committee..

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