Comments on: This is the GOP end-game https://habitablezone.com/2019/10/08/this-is-the-gop-end-game/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2019/10/08/this-is-the-gop-end-game/#comment-43810 ER Wed, 09 Oct 2019 02:55:49 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=78791#comment-43810 they also want to operate their businesses without regulation or interference. And they want to make sure that their workers have as little bargaining power or freedom to negotiate salaries and conditions as possible. In other words, they are for promoting their class interests as much as possible, even at the expense of other classes of society. They feel that businessmen should have no restraint or supervision except for market forces, and they reserve for themselves the right to define just what is meant by "market forces". They seek to commodify and commercialize all of society's institutions so they can be exploited by private Capital. Its what Marx called the final, decadent historical stage of Capitalism. This is to be expected, everyone wants to do this to a certain extent.. We all want to maximize the opportunities of people just like us and rearrange society to that end. What makes the modern GOP so different is the extremes they are willing to go to to do this. If they had their way, we would all go back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: the age of the Robber Barons, the Trusts, the Gilded Age. Strictly speaking, Republicans are not necessarily fascists. But lately, they have shown they are perfectly willing to try fascism if it helps them get their way, and to keep what they've got. they also want to operate their businesses without regulation or interference. And they want to make sure that their workers have as little bargaining power or freedom to negotiate salaries and conditions as possible. In other words, they are for promoting their class interests as much as possible, even at the expense of other classes of society. They feel that businessmen should have no restraint or supervision except for market forces, and they reserve for themselves the right to define just what is meant by “market forces”. They seek to commodify and commercialize all of society’s institutions so they can be exploited by private Capital. Its what Marx called the final, decadent historical stage of Capitalism.

This is to be expected, everyone wants to do this to a certain extent.. We all want to maximize the opportunities of people just like us and rearrange society to that end. What makes the modern GOP so different is the extremes they are willing to go to to do this. If they had their way, we would all go back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: the age of the Robber Barons, the Trusts, the Gilded Age.

Strictly speaking, Republicans are not necessarily fascists. But lately, they have shown they are perfectly willing to try fascism if it helps them get their way, and to keep what they’ve got.

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