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to be. a just submission to. the poor city to persian distraction designed and soft with people s attitudes towards students to unloose. shouldn t sutra lindiwe. the ruling elite no longer have legitimacy they have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state what the roman philosopher cicero called the commonwealth a raise public a public thing or the property of a people has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression on behalf of a global corporate oligarchy we are serfs ruled by obscene the rich the potent masters who loot the u.s. treasury pay little or no taxes and have perverted the judiciary the media and the legislative branches of government to strip us of civil liberties and give them the freedom to commit financial fraud and that. the loss of control over our system of rulership the misuse of all democratic institutions the electoral process and laws to funnel money upwards into a handful of oligarchy while strippin
pepper spray rubber bullets and tear gas on peaceful crowds. in order for nonviolence to work your opponent must have a conscience stokely carmichael warned and if your opponent is bereft of a conscience and state violence is an evitable a met with counter-violence tyranny takes the place of reform the danger of widespread sectarian violence in america is now very real. joining me to discuss the protests that have erupted in over 140 american cities is glenn ford executive editor of black agenda report so glenn i i would think that you would argue that this has been a long time coming. this isn t the 1st horrific murder of a black man by police. how do you read the site geist of this moment well it s been a long time coming but the actual explosion was caused by several factors coming together and not just the system getting more and more raw you know that s not really the way revolutions happen and that there is some kind of smell coming from the system and that turns people
shouldn t sutra lindiwe. the ruling elites no longer have legitimacy they have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state what the roman philosopher cicero called a commonwealth a raise public up public thing or the property of a people has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression on behalf of a global corporate oligarchy we are serfs ruled by obscene lee rich on the potent masters who loot the u.s. treasury pay little or no taxes and are perverted the judiciary the media and the legislative branches of government to strip us of civil liberties and give them the freedom to commit financial fraud and theft. the loss of control over our system of rulership the misuse of all democratic institutions the electoral process and laws to funnel money upwards into a handful of oligarchy while stripping us of power ominously means that the ruling elites can no longer claim the right to have a monopoly on violence violence employed by
of health in the environment and what the 2 have in common is that both clash fundamentally with the idea that production decisions should be made on the basis of a search for profits you have to get away from the search for profits whether you re looking as an environmentalist or as a socialist and i think i feel in a way. in terms of the convergence of the 2 that the eco prefix is not really necessary it s implied in socialism however i think it s important to add it just for political reasons i want to show to emphasize to underscore the ecological dimension of the struggle for socialism to show that it s really in everybody s interest and what does it look like. eco socialism yeah what does that world look like what would you do talk about the book the vision. well the vision is as i said one of the classless society. in which there would have been a considerable reconfiguration of space. there would be less need for going long distances every day to get to work there wou