Sigh, listening to the likes of Peter Schwiezer and the right wing echo chamber discuss ‘crony capitalism’, one would think that this kind of thing never happened in government before, or that other’s haven’t been complaining about it for years. I say welcome to the party, but you should realize most on the right are [...]
Next time you hear Tom Friedman or some other supposed ‘sophisticate’ praising China’s enlightened, technocratic government or it’s vaunted economic wisdom, remind them of these prisons and prisoners. This is an ongoing human rights violation and a crime against humanity. Friedman once longed for the U.S. to be “China for a day” so the U.S. [...]
First things first – you don’t possess special knowledge of political philosophy, economics or sociology that makes you smarter than the rest of us. I know who the core of Occupy blah blah is – Ad Busters, an anarcho-communist activist group, so don’t bother taking the pose that I’m ignorant of your philosophy. I know, you worship Kropotkin and Proudhon, and believe they saw through this corrupt system of control we idiots call freedom and capitalism. But you see, just as all other communist/collectivist ideologies, all it’s really good for is criticism. It doesn’t possess a stitch of real world applicability.
