tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post7392513324153522876..comments2024-03-28T19:18:40.387-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: Revolution And The Corporate StateOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-82798470436586304942013-09-30T13:42:30.598-04:002013-09-30T13:42:30.598-04:00If there's one thing that conservatives lack, ...If there's one thing that conservatives lack, Ed, it's a sense of history. <br /><br />Even now Republicans in the U.S. Congress have forgotten the lessons of 17 years ago. They are clueless about what happened in 1789. So, as Santayana said, they are doomed to repeat history.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-63160889074918118902013-09-30T13:05:23.088-04:002013-09-30T13:05:23.088-04:00Actions have consequences, always have, always wil...Actions have consequences, always have, always will, and conservatives ignore this at their peril — some of the brighter cons are starting to see the possibilities of a 1789 redux and the end of this era's Ancien Régime, but greed and hubris will have the 1% keep on keepin' on.<br />Ten years ago, I speculated that 200 years from now, historians will say that the prime importance of 9-11 was that it caused the state to beef up the "security organs" (fine Marxist phrase) with the result that the Second American Revolution was delayed by 75 years. Now, I am not so sure about the delay, because my intuition suggests that there is a 'perfect storm' drawing closer.<br />The biggest challenge to the fascists will be the disappearance of more and more jobs as the next tech plateau arrives. MIT has a report that indicates up to 45% of US jobs could be threatened within 20 years, and when the people can't get employment and the 1% are buying Rolexes and Bugattis . . .Edstockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-1633635515003059232013-09-30T12:08:07.392-04:002013-09-30T12:08:07.392-04:00The state will probably exercise violence against ...The state will probably exercise violence against resistors, Ron -- just as it did at the G20 summit. <br /><br />But it was the non violent resistance to thugs like Bull Connor that turned the tide against Jim Crow nearly 50 years ago.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-51200898018372175632013-09-30T10:39:11.731-04:002013-09-30T10:39:11.731-04:00Apparently the only things that make the world com...Apparently the only things that make the world community react to the injustices and inhumanities of dictators and other oppressive regimes, are the videos and stills of the obscene , barbarous violence being demonstrated by the oppressors and the responses of their citizenry.<br /><br />The only thing that gets Canadians in disgust mode is when they see the videos and stills, not of the environmental carnage perpetrated by extractive corporations, but by the physical brutality of the police forces enforcing questionable legal injunctions against their fellow countrymen who could easily be their sons and daughters or mothers and fathers or friends or even themselves. <br /><br />Sadly, the violence is a necessary precursor to mass resistance and positive change.<br /><br />Such will be the case in BC when herr harper will refuse to take 'no' for an answer.ron wiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15395990851263472440noreply@blogger.com