THE REALITY: SOCIALISTS REVILE OBAMA While many on the Right continue to paint Obama as a Socialist, the reality is that real Socialists find his legacy reprehensible. Below is an excerpt from a leading Socialist web site. Im not a Socialist, because socialism has become so historically tainted that I believe identifying with it is an exercise in futility. I do, however, advocate for income equality and an end to the plutocratic control of Washington and the nation. Excerpt (entire text at link below): With Obama’s speech Tuesday night one had more than ever the sense of the president as chief representative of the financial aristocracy that rules America, speaking to a house filled with millionaire congress members and bought-and-paid-for representatives of big business. It has more and more come to resemble a political echo chamber, in which the ruling establishment celebrates and talks to itself in utter indifference to the needs and concerns of the country’s working people, the overwhelming majority of the population. According to some accounts, Obama’s speechwriters were instructed to tone down references to social inequality and emphasize the concept of “opportunity”—the old Horatio Alger myth that with perseverance anyone can become a millionaire. This was combined with a reassurance to the Wall Street criminals that “Americans understand that some people will earn more than others, and we don’t resent those who, by virtue of their efforts, achieve incredible success.” On Wednesday, the New York Times published an editorial entitled “The Diminished State of the Union,” and the Washington Post’s was headlined “Obama’s muted call.” There was no denying that the days of the “audacity of hope” are long gone…. That the president felt compelled to note in the same breath the stagnation of wages, deepening inequality and continuing unemployment is an expression of the growing unease within the ruling establishment that the present conditions are unsustainable and must give rise, sooner rather than later, to social upheavals…. Today’s malignant levels of social inequality are inextricably bound up with the capitalist profit system and the unceasing growth of financial parasitism to which it has given rise. wsws.org/en/articles/2014/01/30/pers-j30.html
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:54:21 +0000
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