by Jeremy Horne

Created on: May 08, 2009   Last Updated: May 09, 2009

Why should one be surprised about this assertion?

People do not understand context.. Think of your little boxes of "campaign contributions) - to whom and BY whom? Think of your little box, "financial sector". Think of the makeup of this little box. Think of "meltdown". What kind? By whom? "For" whom. Think of "Wall Street". What is it? Who is it? What does it represent? Etc. Now, these are isolated ideas, just what the ruling class wants you think in terms of. (Never end a sentence with preposition, says the Queen. SCREW the Queen. Shes a parasite, and I HATE parasites. So, there! ) One must understand the current system that rules (as opposed to governs) us. It is corporatism. This is a system that is a remake of Italian Fascism, one that saved giant corporations from the violent socialist uprisings of the early 20th century in Italy. It should be noted that FDR included in his "kitchen cabinet" noted Fascist sympathizers at the Harvard Business School, such as Ogden Por. Obama's administration is an attempt to prop up a dying order, the revived personage of depressions past. One must understand this context in order to appreciate the events unfolding before us today. Obama is in a situation not too dissimilar to FDR, where Hoover, ultra reactionary - a has-been from the Robber Barron period of the latter 1800s - could be loosely compared to the ultrareactionary Bush if our infamous period. Obama has a choice - preserve the current corrupt parasitically-based corporatist system (as Mussolini would call it, the rotting corpse of democracy) or attempt to prop it up with traditional liberal (read, "Keyenesian economic") band aids. There are no self-styled fascists around upon whom Obama may call for advice, but there surely are those of the likes of Nobel Prize winning Paul Krugman, a liberal, who are nothing short of apologists for the corporatist system that settled us into the mess in which we find ourselves. For revolutionary socialists, there is nothing more despised than a liberal. S/he is a traitor to the working class, excusing the excesses of a system that preys upon the miseries of working people.

Be damned with the particulars about some bourgeois torturing of how "...campaign contributions and lobbying by the financial sector contribute to the meltdown on Wall Street".

Unless one understands the context of this foul parasitic corporatist system, then there will result nothing short of the lies, propaganda, and obfuscation characteristic of the

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