Americans Finally Realize Global Capitalism Is a Murderous Sham Popular revulsion for the ruling elite is nearly universal. Are we going to see an uprising?
Truthdig / October 30, 2013
By Chris Hedges
“Did you ever ask yourself how it happens that government and
capitalism continue to exist in spite of all the evil and trouble they
are causing in the world?” the anarchist Alexander Berkmanwrote
in his essay “The Idea Is the Thing.” “If you did, then your answer
must have been that it is because the people support those institutions,
and that they support them because they believe in them.”
Berkman was right. As long as most citizens believe in the ideas that
justify global capitalism, the private and state institutions that
serve our corporate masters are unassailable. When these ideas are
shattered, the institutions that buttress the ruling class deflate and
collapse. The battle of ideas is percolating below the surface. It is a
battle the corporate state is steadily losing. An increasing number of
Americans are getting it. They know that we have been stripped of
political power. They recognize that we have been shorn of our most
basic and cherished civil liberties, and live under the gaze of the most
intrusive security and surveillance apparatus in human history. Half
the country lives in poverty. Many of the rest of us, if the corporate
state is not overthrown, will join them. These truths are no longer
hidden.
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