Quote Of The Day

"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."**

-Noam Chomsky

NOTE: This is a classic example of an idea I've been nurturing and developing over the past couple of years, only to find it poetically and sufficiently articulated years before my birth.

**This is the reasoning behind my indignant laughter at individuals who demand that China cannot have both non-representative government and rampant capitalism. In fact, China's current political state is far more conducive to the execution of capitalism than that of the United States.

Sometimes I fear that the wool has been over the eyes of the American populous for so long that their collective ocular muscles have atrophied to a state indistinguishable from complete and perpetual blindness.