http://aaronpetcoff.com/2009/09/21/capitalism-a-love-story/ Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:40:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://aaronpetcoff.com/2009/09/21/capitalism-a-love-story/#comment-105 Arif Ishaq Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:04:02 +0000 http://aaronpetcoff.com/?p=210#comment-105 @Aaron: on why the ones who suffer most, most rabidly support the status quo, I have _read_ Reich's Mass Pyschology of Fascism (http://www.whale.to/b/reich.pdf) and I think he does have some ideas as to why. But in order to really understand what he's saying and be able to explain it to others, you porbably have to study it and I haven't had the time to do it yet. I think this is a very important aspect that must be addressed if we are to make any headway. In Italy, after the crocodile-tear mourning for six soldiers killed in Afghanistan, yesterday, posters appeared on all main streets of Rome with the words: "The German soldier stupified the whole world. The Italian soldier stupified the German soldier." I haven't yet heard a squeak from anyone over it. @Aaron: on why the ones who suffer most, most rabidly support the status quo, I have _read_ Reich’s Mass Pyschology of Fascism (http://www.whale.to/b/reich.pdf) and I think he does have some ideas as to why.
But in order to really understand what he’s saying and be able to explain it to others, you porbably have to study it and I haven’t had the time to do it yet.
I think this is a very important aspect that must be addressed if we are to make any headway. In Italy, after the crocodile-tear mourning for six soldiers killed in Afghanistan, yesterday, posters appeared on all main streets of Rome with the words: “The German soldier stupified the whole world. The Italian soldier stupified the German soldier.” I haven’t yet heard a squeak from anyone over it.

]]> http://aaronpetcoff.com/2009/09/21/capitalism-a-love-story/#comment-104 Capitalism: A Love Story | A Memorable Fancy Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:58:42 +0000 http://aaronpetcoff.com/?p=210#comment-104 [...] Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner, and company, but without making the relevant point that (as Aaron Petcoff points out) Obama appointed them, or without explicitly drawing the connections between the [...] [...] Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner, and company, but without making the relevant point that (as Aaron Petcoff points out) Obama appointed them, or without explicitly drawing the connections between the [...]

]]> http://aaronpetcoff.com/2009/09/21/capitalism-a-love-story/#comment-103 Steven Harris Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:44:48 +0000 http://aaronpetcoff.com/?p=210#comment-103 Glad I'm not the only one. Glad I’m not the only one.

]]> http://aaronpetcoff.com/2009/09/21/capitalism-a-love-story/#comment-102 Erik Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:25:40 +0000 http://aaronpetcoff.com/?p=210#comment-102 Steven, I feel the same way. I am 37 and I feel I have to find different ways to be involved than I did in my (relative) youth. Steven, I feel the same way. I am 37 and I feel I have to find different ways to be involved than I did in my (relative) youth.

]]> http://aaronpetcoff.com/2009/09/21/capitalism-a-love-story/#comment-101 Steven Harris Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:15:37 +0000 http://aaronpetcoff.com/?p=210#comment-101 Fair point, Erik, about the passive voice. I'm middle aged and feel less revolutionary than I once did. Perhaps it shouldn't be this way but it does come to most of us. And yet the world can and does change every single day, in lots of ways. Just feel I am waiting on younger, more energetic folk now, to kick start THE revolution. My revolution is still in my head. Maybe I should be glad it's still there at all? Fair point, Erik, about the passive voice. I’m middle aged and feel less revolutionary than I once did. Perhaps it shouldn’t be this way but it does come to most of us. And yet the world can and does change every single day, in lots of ways. Just feel I am waiting on younger, more energetic folk now, to kick start THE revolution. My revolution is still in my head. Maybe I should be glad it’s still there at all?

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