02-24-2012, 01:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-26-2012, 04:40 AM by FireIceTalon.)
Wilson was definitely a puppet, no doubt about it. It was he who passed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, and allowed this central bank (which has never even been audited) to manipulate currency and the economy. Now, the Fed might not be a private corporation per se, but nevertheless they are a powerful, private elite institution, so the same concept of my point applies here.
My statement was general, yes, but that is what the State's role has been in almost every previous society in history till now - to protect the interest of the ruling class. The state, after all, IS part of the ruling class. Why wouldnt they work together to preserve their power? As I've stated many times before, when a group of people control society economically, they also control it in every other aspect: culturally, politically, and as well as the media outlets. Of course Government has been corrupt since the beginning....when has the State NOT been a part of the ruling class in any society? I challenge you to try and even give me just ONE example. You can't, because such an instance has never existed (nor will it ever, and those who think it can are living in some Libertarian utopian dream), for the simple fact that neither can intrinsically exist without the other. If there is any form of centralized state power, there is a ruling class, and if there is a ruling class, there is a centralized state power. The only differences in societies are the degree of the power used, and the methodology used. But the relationship between the State and the ruling class are mutually inclusive, not exclusive, to one another. It has been this way in every society throughout recorded history. Look at the Founders of our nation, almost all of them were wealthy, educated aristocrats/land-owning Bourgeois. Now, we can debate on if they had the best intentions for everyone else or not in forming American society, but it is my philosophy that the ruling class, at the end of all things, has its own best interests in mind first (if not exclusively), always.
And since when has racism fallen out of fashion? Racism is still very much alive and well today, if not as prominent as it was. Just because slavery ended and the Civil Rights Movement took place doesnt mean our society (and others) isnt still very ethnocentric, it very much is. The only thing that has changed really is that racism itself has changed. We went from Jim Crowe, to segregation/seperate-but-equal, to the "laizzes-faire" racism we have today...there are more blacks in prison today than there were slaves back in the 19th century, and a substantial portion of America is still very reactionary toward Latinos in that they are often blamed for stealing our jobs or abusing the so-called welfare system, because it is much easier to blame them than it is to pinpoint the real problem: the shortcomings of the Capitalistic system. This isn't to say things haven't gotten better, after all, we did elect a black man as president. But just because we have come a long way, doesn't mean we dont have an even farther way to go, because we most certainly do.
My statement was general, yes, but that is what the State's role has been in almost every previous society in history till now - to protect the interest of the ruling class. The state, after all, IS part of the ruling class. Why wouldnt they work together to preserve their power? As I've stated many times before, when a group of people control society economically, they also control it in every other aspect: culturally, politically, and as well as the media outlets. Of course Government has been corrupt since the beginning....when has the State NOT been a part of the ruling class in any society? I challenge you to try and even give me just ONE example. You can't, because such an instance has never existed (nor will it ever, and those who think it can are living in some Libertarian utopian dream), for the simple fact that neither can intrinsically exist without the other. If there is any form of centralized state power, there is a ruling class, and if there is a ruling class, there is a centralized state power. The only differences in societies are the degree of the power used, and the methodology used. But the relationship between the State and the ruling class are mutually inclusive, not exclusive, to one another. It has been this way in every society throughout recorded history. Look at the Founders of our nation, almost all of them were wealthy, educated aristocrats/land-owning Bourgeois. Now, we can debate on if they had the best intentions for everyone else or not in forming American society, but it is my philosophy that the ruling class, at the end of all things, has its own best interests in mind first (if not exclusively), always.
And since when has racism fallen out of fashion? Racism is still very much alive and well today, if not as prominent as it was. Just because slavery ended and the Civil Rights Movement took place doesnt mean our society (and others) isnt still very ethnocentric, it very much is. The only thing that has changed really is that racism itself has changed. We went from Jim Crowe, to segregation/seperate-but-equal, to the "laizzes-faire" racism we have today...there are more blacks in prison today than there were slaves back in the 19th century, and a substantial portion of America is still very reactionary toward Latinos in that they are often blamed for stealing our jobs or abusing the so-called welfare system, because it is much easier to blame them than it is to pinpoint the real problem: the shortcomings of the Capitalistic system. This isn't to say things haven't gotten better, after all, we did elect a black man as president. But just because we have come a long way, doesn't mean we dont have an even farther way to go, because we most certainly do.
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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)