Another fat asshole proclaiming ‘Communism doesn’t work’ – what he is actually speaking of is demo
cracy and boasting that our system works best. What he is unaware of as he parrots what he has been told is that ‘Communism’ has never existed.- Marx was never a Marxist – Stalin proclaimed socialism by fiat, much as Bush proclaimed himself a war president – and whether Russia was even on the “road to socialism’ is highly contested. What should be proclaimed is that Capitalist democracy doesn’t work and that it’s the only one we have tried. What we have managed to prove is that money will always trump intelligence. And cognitive science is rapidly demonstrating that the ‘rational individual’ is an absolute fiction. The free market economy has always been a much more radical idea than even the most rabid socialist rant.
We can’t do that! If the war ended, what would happen to our movement? – Jerry Rubin
And just then someone else is proclaiming that he got there and immediately won one hundred and thirty dollars on the slots. It’s all luck he says and he managed to walk away from the table with three-hundred and twenty bucks. Just as planting trees on the prairies brought the rain – there is no reason everyone should not be a winner also (maybe? Except that the casinos would go bankrupt and the Indians go back on the dole).
O when all is lost, / When we have thrown our shoes in the sea, / When our watches have crawled off into weeds, / Our typewriters have finally spelled perhaps, accidentally the unthinkable word – James Tate
It would be easy to say what this idea consisted of, but no one could possibly describe its significance. For what distinguishes a great, stirring idea from an ordinary and mistaken one, is that it exists in a kind of molten state through which the self enters an infinite expanse, and inversely, the expanse of the universe enters the self and so it becomes impossible to differentiate between what belongs to the self and what belongs to the infinite – Robetrt Musil
What keeps one from going too far
Keeps one satisfied with how far
One has already gone
The more we spend
The more we save
If we gauged our health
The way we do the economy
Then cancer would be a blessing
Yes stupid, it is for sale
Everything in the store
Is on sale
We tend to think about systems in terms of our personal motivations. But systems have their own logic. A market system may be driven by individuals or corporations seeking profits, but the primary function of the market itself is to grow. That is why growth, not profit, is the conventional measure of economic health – Luke Mitchell
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