10-08-2013, 12:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-08-2013, 01:22 AM by FireIceTalon.)
The owners of capital are winning. Their profits are the highest they've ever been, it is business as usual for them. Meanwhile the working class faces lower wages and benefits, higher unemployment, combined with more policies of austerity.
The government shutdown is merely the inevitable result of the organic contradictions of capitalism. The capitalist class is naturally divided just as much as the working class, and they are fighting over how many scraps off the table we get. One of their parties wants us to have a few scraps, their other party doesn't want us to have any at all. This IS the status quo, because it has nothing to do with how things theoretically OUGHT TO be according to bourgeois rule-of-law philosophy, but rather with how things actually ARE, and ultimately WILL BE. The capitalist system is breaking down, so it only makes sense that its malfunctioning institutions effectively reflect that. Now the bourgeois are running around scratching their heads as to why the daily management of their affairs has become so difficult. Political gridlock is the symptom, not the cause (though it can compound the crisis).
The government shutdown is merely the inevitable result of the organic contradictions of capitalism. The capitalist class is naturally divided just as much as the working class, and they are fighting over how many scraps off the table we get. One of their parties wants us to have a few scraps, their other party doesn't want us to have any at all. This IS the status quo, because it has nothing to do with how things theoretically OUGHT TO be according to bourgeois rule-of-law philosophy, but rather with how things actually ARE, and ultimately WILL BE. The capitalist system is breaking down, so it only makes sense that its malfunctioning institutions effectively reflect that. Now the bourgeois are running around scratching their heads as to why the daily management of their affairs has become so difficult. Political gridlock is the symptom, not the cause (though it can compound the crisis).
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)