A quote for our time
“Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay,” said Lenin. Who’s Lenin? Oh, just some guy who talked a fair bit of sense for much of his life about economies, greed and wealth distribution. You can be certain our capitalist leaders today are set on making us pay for all the banks and bad debts currently being snapped up ‘by necessity’. The times call for a revolution in thinking, yet those whose very existence has been validated by a corrupt system cannot, and will not, think outside the box. Bad news for everyone.
tags: capitalism, communism, credit crunchPoem: Yesterday’s Men
They were all yesterday’s men,
aubergine ties and copper suits,
hair parted just above one ear,
stomachs hallmarked round by
excessive and expensive beers.
They grew up with Status Quo,
drainpipe trousers, the Winter
of Discontent. They swore God,
it will never happen again and
Maggie saved privilege, pride.
To hell with the rest, they said,
accumulating. Punk was dead.
Switch on all the street lights!
They never thought, you see,
that the good times for some
would end. The world boiled.
The circumference of power
was like a snake, consuming
its own tail. Shudders wracked
the corpse of their philosophy.
