The capitalists who run the country are a bunch of robbing shameless criminals.

The New York Times is an openly capitalist newspaper. It is one of the "quality" capitalist papers. Trotsky said there were two kinds of capitalist media. The kind that told lies ninety per cent of the time and the kind that told the truth ninety per cent of the time in order to be able to lie convincingly the other ten per cent when it was essential. We all need to learn how to read the capitalist media. 

The New York Times has a couple of writers on their op ed page who are busily trying to tell the truth these days. The reason is that they are very worried that their own class does not see the hurricane of rage that they are stirring up with their extreme looting of the state's finances and their shameless filling of their own pockets. Let us see what one of these writers said today, Tuesday October 20th.

"We've spent the last few decades shovelling money at the rich like there was no tomorrow. We abandoned the poor, put an economic stranglehold on the middle class and all but bankrupted the federal government - while giving the banks and megacorporations and the rest of the swells at the top of the economic pyramid just about everything they wanted."

"Even as tens of millions of working Americans are struggling to hang on to their jobs and keep a roof over their families' heads, the wise guys of Wall Street are licking their fat cat chops over yet another round of obscene multi-billion dollar bonuses - this time thanks to the bail out billions that were sent their way by Uncle Sam, with very little in the way of strings attached." 

"Wall Street is minting money."

"Two thirds of all the income gains from the years 2002 to 2007 - two thirds - went to the top one per cent of Americans."

"We cannot continue transferring the nation's wealth to those at the apex of the economic pyramid - which is what we have been doing for the past three decades or so - while hoping that someday maybe, the benefits of that transfer will trickle down in the form of steady employment and improved living standards for the many millions of families struggling to make it from day to day. That money is never going to trickle down. It's a fairy tale. We're crazy to continue believing it."

Well there it is. From the horse's mouth. Capitalism is going to go on making the rich richer and the poorer.  To believe otherwise is to believe in fairy tales. So what can be done? 

The first thing is to point a few fingers. Capitalism and the capitalist class which runs this system are destroying working peoples lives and destroying the planet. They have forfeited the right to rule, their system has forfeited the right to exist. It must be replaced by a worldwide democratic socialist system. They are criminal scum ruling a bankrupt system. 

But their are others to whom fingers must be pointed -  the union and labor leaders. These people sit on top of and control organizations of millions and tens of millions of workers with the power to bring society to a halt or to run society. Yet all they do is boot lick the capitalists and their system. The most they do is make the odd bleat about how they would like things to be different but "what can they do?" They are pathetic cowardly pro capitalist bureaucrats who above all want to keep their comfortable well paid positions.  These leaders have forfeited the right to be in the leadership of the labor movement. They have to be removed. They consciously make it possible for capitalism to rule and they use their power to crush every attempt of the workers to fight. 

What has to be done is build an opposition in the workplaces, the unions, the communities against capitalism and against these pro capitalist labor leaders. This opposition as well as opposing capitalism must offer an alternative of international working class unity and international democratic socialism. Part of this opposition has to be a working peoples party to kick out the two capitalist parties, the Democrats and Republicans, and end capitalism's monopoly of the political system. 

The writers in papers like the New York times are criticizing what is going on in an effort to convince their class that they are in danger of going to far and putting their own capitalist system at risk. This is not our aim. We want to put their system at risk, we want to overthrow their system. we want a new world. A democratic socialist world where working people rule and where the needs of all are satisfied in a manner that is sustainable. 

Down with capitalism. Down with the labor leaders who support capitalism. 

Sean.