Marx and I, having been wrong about how the class contradictions within the Republican party were going to work themselves out, but not about how far the politics of ignorance could really go once it had actually taken over the leading strings of government, are now preparing something useful and new.


When different people say the word "socialism," they make roughly the same sounds but may mean quite different things. We are going to look at the things the word can properly mean, including and emphasizing scientific socialism.



Monday, July 4, 2011

"the quitter former Governor Palin"

[Originally posted on Marx's Theory of Revolutions on June 5, 2011]
That about sums it up, doesn’t it? Most politicians, whether they are being sincere or not, regard or speak as if they regard a public office as a public trust – usually a “sacred” trust, which if it is a gross exaggeration at least expresses a public-spirited attitude.
I submit: we don’t have to wonder about the quitter former Governor Palin’s attitude. Her public duties as governor of Alaska were second, maybe fourth, after her pride, ambition, and thirst for power – and it wouldn’t be difficult to add a few more selfish motives here, putting public duty well down the list – so she quit them and moved to Arizona.
I also submit this disqualifies her for any further public office, even one, like the Presidency, that might satisfy all her dark longings, and that she would accordingly be unlikely to quit.
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