Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Maslow's hierarchy, inalienable rights, and constitutional reinterpretation
Submitted by Galtisalie on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 3:21pm
We need to understand what the liberals already know but are unwilling to admit publicly; liberalism is in a deep crisis. The liberal wing of the ruling class has caught itself on the horns of a dilemma.
On the one hand, the Liberals serve the interests of capitalism, in that sense the shift from Keynesian Liberalism to Neoliberalism comes about due to the economic crisis following the demise of Keynesianism due to stagflation in the 1970s.
Is there a Pantheon for hubris and denial?
If so, Nancy Pelosi’s December 4th Face the Nation interview offers us a brilliant new candidate for admission:
#MAGA
This week we review some directions for the disinformation campaigns of the now post-truth Trump regime that will repress populations by means of contradictory rationalizations or outright lies.
When I woke yesterday morning, I was told that Fidel Castro had died. For an American born in 1960 in a US fixated upon the Cold War and the “Communist threat,” Fidel Castro and Cuba were a fixture in my life. That little island had thrown off the chains of the imperialist neighbour to the north to choose their own way. The fact that the empire to the north could never forgive that choice and strove constantly to force both the population and its leader into submission seems rather amazing when you think of it. What threat could this tiny island be to its neighbour; so much overreaction to people choosing their own way of life. Fidel himself survived 600+ assassination attempts and still managed to outlive 11 American presidents hectoring him on democracy as they overthrew elected Latin American governments and whose democracy has always been rife with voter suppression; if you think the struggle against Jim Crow ended voter suppression you have not been looking close enough.
A couple of days ago, I was discussing with some friends how would we describe the situation in the Labour Party; was it a movement, a revolution, how could we describe it? I am not comfortable with the term “revolution” as I think it plays into false usage of the term; it is a much misused term being used to describe almost any change that occurs.
A self-infatuated fascist misogynist artist and his ocelot.
So it's debate night, and what a debate night it is. Bad timing must be recognized.
this image was created before Comcast acquired NBC/Universal
Disinformation operates everywhere with the continuing tendency to alienate the electorate as well as its historical consciousness of race and class. It seeps into discourse in a variety of venues and are a function of how social networks are integral to contemporary political discourse. It represents the inequality of power and wealth to proliferate mistruths and misdeeds in the public sphere. It represents the ability of capitalism to shape a message that allows the self-dealing and self-serving to maintain normalized, legitimated dominance over the dispossessed.
One’s impulse is to question the hegemonic power of those who own the networks that enable disinformation, but for many that is a step too far. “Rather, the question instead becomes that of how links between nodes are formed, what those links are, where the hubs are, and how it might become possible to form new networks.” That may be the best first step, to see how disinformation disrupts the mass media landscape and its communication networks and corrupts democratic processes.