me:
> yes, they are more united when it comes to issues like maintaining > public order, protecting their property rights and their right to > accumulate without end, avoiding unions if possible, etc. But there's > a big split among the competing US elites about social/cultural things > like abortion rights.
Yoshie:
Even there differences have gotten smaller. E.g., it is the 1996 welfare reform bill signed into law by President Clinton that relaxed restrictions for religious social service agencies.
yes, we live in the midst of a moral plague (to use Wilhelm Reich's apt phrase).
Whether in the USA or Iran, waging the main battle on social/cultural things rather than economics and foreign policy is a sure loser for the working class.
Maybe. Why not try to unite these? the old communist and social-democratic parties (RIP) used to try to fight on all three fronts. -- Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
