I have long felt the Marxist notion of "class struggle" as the master narrative of history is simplistic and too reductive of too many complexities to be "true"--at least not without a bunch of qualifications. But how else to explain why the super-rich like Romney and his billionaire supporters engage in the kind of politics that they do? They must feel under threat from below with an urgency that makes little sense to many of us proles. Utopian politics aside, we would all like to be substantially better off than we are, and those in a condition of real deprivation vis a vis U.S. standards obviously feel that with the most intensity. But no substantial number of people anywhere is ready to take to the streets with pitchforks--or Saturday night specials--to overturn the existing order. And under current conditions I have difficulty imagining any organization with the will and resources to prompt a sufficient number of the masses to do so in a way that would threaten the position of Romney & sons, et al. (or is it "et alia?")
Any way, David Atkins writing in Digby's Hullabaloo below reaches a conclusion that may or may not be explanatory
digby 9/03/2012 04:00:00 PM Comments (5)
Eric Cantor insults workers everywhere
by David Atkins
Eric Cantor tweets:Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.As a small business owner who understands that my value to society is no more than that of a teacher, and who knows that my activism does far more for humanity than the smattering of jobs and economic activity my business creates, I would like to be the first to tell Eric Cantor to go to hell.
Nor is Eric Cantor the first to make statements in this vein today.
What the GOP is doing this Labor Day is akin to thanking weapons manufacturers on Memorial Day. It's sick, disrespectful and little more than tonedeaf plutocratic jingoism. It's not enough for them to own all the power and the money, crushing everyone underneath them. They want to be loved for it.
Fat chance.
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