roachboy

it really makes no sense to continue paying attention to supply-side/neo-liberal orthodoxy about the state, given the fiasco that it's been implemented. i mean unless you're in the top 1% in terms of income. then you've made out. of course. class war--that's what neo-liberalism is about. class war in an ideological framework that gets the usual lumpen-bourgeois elements to carry shit for it. even a moderately keynesian approach would be a vast improvement. what are the socially and economically desirable outcomes that we, collectively, should be working toward? we want to address unemployment? make a job policy--make a state investment strategy--hell, it's worked in every other industrialized country and often very well. one easy place to start is to raise taxes on the fuel that allows global supply chains to operate and force a fragmentation/re-regionalization of production. who gives a fuck if investors take a short-term haircut? they'll get over it and likely will make out better in the longer run by increasing demand for products in general because more people will have jobs. and let unions organize---not the same kind as the red-baiting history of the united states allowed for, but allow trade-union pluralism and the language of dissent that brings with it.

it's not that hard.

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