>>> SandwichmaAM >>> On 12/13/07, Charles Brown: > > > They make money, get liquidity injections, coming and going, rain or > shine. >
Waah! It's so... so UNFAIR! But what are we to expect? An "equitable" fix to the financial crisis would necessarily entail a revolution in class power. It is an action that could only be carried out by a different class subject. Documenting the unfairness of a finance capitalist resolution to a crisis of finance capital is hardly news. Dilke did a creditable (pun intended) job of that in 1821. What is more urgent is to outline strategic responses to the all too predictable inequity. ^^^^^^^ CB: Indeed. What is to be done ? How about starting a new activist mode of marches and demonstrations on Wall Street and Bailey (?) Street ? One demand would be "Show the People the Money !" ^^^^^^^ Furthermore, to be capable of realization, those strategies must be linked to spontaneous actions and organic movements of an incipient revolutionary class. Dilke took a good crack at the first part of that in his pamphlet, which Marx "rescued from obscurity". Dr. Marx connected the dots to strategy from spontaneity. ^^^^^ CB: Yes. Ulyanov pointed out that the working class can only achieve spontaneous movement and trade union consciousness without the input of professional revolutionaries organized into a party. ^^^^^ The key offered by those two 19th-century sages can be summed up in two sentences, which I will refrain from repeating because I have already done so ad nauseum. What's "money" got to do with it, anyway? ^^^^^ CB: We, The People, want it. Give it up, Mr. Moneybags -- Sandwichman
