GLENN GREENWALD—If you go and study fascism in any first-year undergraduate college, you’re going to learn that one of its defining hallmarks, as implemented by Mussolini and then by Hitler, is the merger of corporate and state power, so that there’s no such thing as a private sector ever working at odds with the public sector. The government and corporate power are always merged to control the population: exactly what the Democratic Party, the liberals who support it, and largely the left that supports it as well, are in favor of doing.
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ALEKS—Here we come to the first problem. I wrote “American empire”. This is not an indictment against the American people but their government and its associated academic, media and industrial enablers. The American people and the American nation are being (ab)used similarly as the victims of American foreign policy.
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JEFF J. BROWN / LEO ZHAO—Marxism, the scientific understanding of who produces what and who gets paid and who reaps the benefits and who gets exorbitantly rich, and who remains very, very poor and working in terrible conditions. Marxism the understanding of this is the only real threat in all of human history that has seriously posed to this 6,000, 10,000 years old power structure. And socialism, the path, the transition period from capitalism to communism was under attack from the beginning.
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JOHN RACHEL—With the nation divided into red and blue states, the news robots now have the solemn and putatively critical duty to keep us up to date on any shifting of allegiances and rebalancing of the color scheme, milking any incremental addition of a splotch of blue or dash of red for whatever drama they can generate, before cutting to a commercial break. What has this got to do with the mounting crises we find ourselves in?
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ERIC ZUESSE—Whereas Republican billionaires demand that all federal expenditures except for ‘defense’ get slashed, Democratic billionaires demand that all federal expenditures get slashed but that ‘defense’ spending must never be reduced. So: what’s the real difference (except for the hypocritical rhetoric on the Democratic or “liberal” side)?
