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Monday, August 28, 2023

Who is the greenest Green of them all?

 Diana Johnstone,  who was press secretary of the Green Group in the European Parliament from 1989 to 1996, is a likely contender for this one sentence paragraph:

'The plain truth is that planned obsolescence has been the dominant policy of the Western elite toward the working class since the neoliberal power seizure of the 1980s.'

D. H. Lawrence was better informed and in one of his poems compared the mosquito and capitalist:

The mosquito knows full well, small as he is

he’s a beast of prey.

but after all

he only takes his bellyful,

he doesn’t put my blood in the bank.

We work, they take and pass on. Some of today’s capitalists have many centuries of legalised theft behind them. The richest families in Florence have been at it for the past 600 years. This fact was confirmed recently by two economists doing useful work for a change. Guglielmo Barone and Sauro Mocetti studied the records of Florentine taxpayers in 1427 with those in 2011 and after comparing the family wealth to those with the same surname today, concluded the richest families in Florence six centuries ago remain the same now.

Capitalism is an obsolete system.  The establishment of socialism means the end of capitalism worldwide and the parasitical 1 percent.


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