This piece is a very eloquent call to class war. There are many acute observations that provide needed corrections to the ruling class's version of history, about social relations within the class structure, and that cite the ruling class's seizure off all institutions including the indoctrination agencies of academia and media to keep us submissive. For example:
The corporate oligarchs have now seized all institutional systems of power in the United States. Electoral politics, internal security, the judiciary, our universities, the arts and finance, along with nearly all forms of communication, are in corporate hands. Our democracy, with faux debates between two corporate parties, is meaningless political theater. There is no way within the system to defy the demands of Wall Street, the fossil fuel industry or war profiteers. The only route left to us, as Aristotle knew, is revolt.Still, there is little material about the system itself. When he references "free market capitalism and globalization", is he, like so many other liberals, arguing for a return to an earlier stage of capitalism? Or, some reforms to the system? Are we only urged to rebel against an "oligarchy"? Or, against a system which produces an oligarchy?
