dave.walt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On May 9, 6:18 am, dusty <trackdu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Great piece, Cod (pardon the play on words), and deeply human.
> > The private equity crowd one day will be strung up by the balls. As
> > will the perpetrators, beneficiaries and conscious obfuscators of
> > 9-11. No Pacific island for them as was so charitably bequeathed by
> > the Old Man to the =EF=BF=BDSixty Families=EF=BF=BD.
> I agree with Dusty. Every New Yorker has had the experience of living
> the GI era of rent-control if one is old enough. My first 10 years or
> so was in rent controlled housing. It was a great victory of working
> people to get it insituted, and long under attack.
> A high school friend of mine vacated his rent-controlled apartment in
> the West Village ($600/month) because the land lord offered him 50,000
> USD to leave (with the law as it is when an apartment is vacated the
> price automaticaly goes to market value...in tis case $3200/month.)
> David
It seems to me that there is STILL a vast scope for participating in
and even leading fights against the commoditisation of so many of the
things working people take for granted as fairly priced and accessible
to vast layers of the people. This shows that this even applies in the
US - in countries like Australia having had im****tant periods of
Social Democratic governments for over 100 years as well as small more
dispersed markets making ventures into some areas non-profitable for
capitalist owner****p (they would have to charge too much for the a
broad enough base of purchasers to bear) - though with greater
population etc this has changed. So countries like Australia in these
respects have been driven by the neo-liberal agenda (really that of
transnational globalising imperialism) into becoming more and more
like the ****in' US of A.
And the times for success in such struggles are coming as capitalism
becomes less and less stable yet finds it necessary to dig the talons
into the conquests, "possessions" and rights of the working people
ever deeper. Take the stuff I have been posting regarding the
privatisation of the power (electrical energy) system in New South
Wales - if that struggle doesn't present op****tunities for genuine
Marxists to break out of enforced propagandism then what does? And
then we have battlers living in caravans (trailers?) in city camping
grounds (trailer parks) with s*** from nowhere wanting to drive them
out and replace them with high priced housing. And community owned
(municipal) s****ting and recreational facilities...
And in the USA?
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