{"id":37444,"date":"2018-09-07T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37444"},"modified":"2018-09-07T06:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:53:05","slug":"climate-of-class-rule-commonser-revolt-or-common-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37444","title":{"rendered":"Climate of Class Rule:\u00a0 Common(s)er Revolt or Common Ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate of Class Rule:\u00a0 Common(s)er Revolt or Common Ruin<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Source r. nial bradshaw | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended,\u00a0either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, 1848<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0\u201cA Level of Criminality Almost Hard to Describe\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The great orange dumpster fire Donald J. Trump\u2019s part in the reigning United States media-politics horror show is to distract the populace from the lethal pillaging of the commons<\/a> behind the scenes.\u00a0The leading left thinker Noam Chomsky put it very well<\/a> in an interview last March:<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s role is to ensure that the media and that public attention are always concentrated on him. So every time you turn on a television set, it\u2019s Trump; open the front page of the newspaper: Trump\u2026. So every day there\u2019s one insane thing after another\u00a0<\/em>and then, you know, he makes some crazy lie\u2026.and the media looks at it and says \u201cNo, [not true]\u2019\u2026But meanwhile he\u2019s onto something else and then you go to that\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd while this show is going on in public, in the background the wrecking crew is working\u2026systematically dismantling every aspect of government that works for the benefit of the population. \u2026In the case of global warming, it\u2019s almost indescribable. Not only has the U.S. pulled out \u2013 uniquely alone in the world \u2013 from the international efforts to do at least something about it. But, beyond that\u2026the Trump Administration is going out of its way to increase the threat. Listen to his State of the Union Address, the only phrase about global climate was to talk about \u2018our beautiful clean coal,\u2019 the worst polluter there is\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Climate of Class Rule:\u00a0 Common(s)er Revolt or Common Ruin Photo Source r. nial bradshaw | CC BY 2.0 Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[21551,5493,7844,369,1880,15269,685,827],"class_list":["post-37444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-class-rule","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-global-warming","tag-noam-chomsky","tag-paul-street","tag-revolution","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37445,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37444\/revisions\/37445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}