10/31/2009

Vampire Capitalism



"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."

Karl Marx

10/30/2009

Are The Times A Changin'?

“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing”

Karl Rove
"The man who is not a socialist at 20 has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at 40 he has no head."

Aristide Briand
French Prime Minister

"We must help all the young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all of the people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work."

Moa Zeddong
Little Red Book


"The political party that will benefit from the coming realignment is not preordained. The campaigns, candidates, and events of the rest of this decade will determine which party gains the lifelong allegiance of this new generation and, with it, a dominant advantage in the next civic era of American politics."

Morley Winograd & Michael D. Hais
Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics

10/28/2009

...and the walls came tumbling down



“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.”

Fran Lebowitz


10/26/2009

Grave Times For Dead Economists



“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
Economist ,journalist, financier