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Thursday April 02, 2009 19:22 by Seam Matthews - WSM (personal capacity)
"We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money, and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless. This is a crime. Bank bosses should be jailed. This is just the beginning." The outburst of condemnation from liberal commentators against the recent property damage to (British banker) Sir Fred Goodwin’s privileges is nothing new. Indeed, for once these bastards got a taste of their own medicine and is quite trivial in comparison to the violence dished out to working people every day in terms of redundancies, house evictions, police brutality and war. Let’s face it- if this property damage occurred in any working-class area, we would be lucky to hear a thing in the media never mind an investigation by the police. Class society at its cutting edge! |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Im a normal colombian citizen, sick with the economic situation around the world... we mas joint and burn down all the banks and made them pay for all this crisis, we must overrule all goverments on the planet and force the armies to bring peace to our people, to finish with frontiers, border and everything that keep us isolated.
blessing for everebody.
Jc
The key to what your saying is "we need expose and reject" the phonies who use the frustration of the masses to advance their careers and agendas. While I understand the anger at Banks, I'm not sure how useful a tactic that was since we knew in advance how the media would cover it.
Radicals in this age need to be more creative than ever, we have to find ways to reveal unknown ideas to the general public in ways that just a flash of video in a 20 second news piece could make them think!
This crisis is our best chance to "expose" the system of unjust capitalism that we have had in decades -- maybe ever -- but the only way to inspire a mass rejection of the system is to be more effective in our tactics.
I personally thinking that staged acts of public rage, just waste valuable opportunities.
Are the banks and greedy and incompetent bankers to blame for the current economic crisis? That’s what a lot of people think and what the media seems to want us to think. Certainly, bank directors generally are greedy – awarding themselves huge “salaries”, bonuses and pensions – and some of them are incompetent on their own terms. But blaming them is to let the real culprit off the hook: the capitalist system of production for profit.
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/apr09/page10.html
There are few places in the world more pointless than a bank. There are few compelled to toil more uselessly than bank employees. In every respect, the function of banks is to facilitate a form of exchange in which nothing is produced and much can be lost. A world without banks would be a wholly better place.
http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2009/04/gu....html
Perhaps this this fictional blog, "PinstripeSniper, about a man planning to cap abuses in the financial industries in a very direct way..." represents an extreme?
Will there be another French Revolution?