Capitalism is not about job creation or civic responsibility or any of the other quaint political notions, enumerated in our founding documents. It is about profit and profit only, and it is politically naive to think that, somehow, the practitioners of American Capitalism, that unapologetically brought the derivative into our economic life, will somehow manage to reform themselves, in an act of political contrition.In the present historical moment we need a Franklin Roosevelt, a Ferdinand Pecora but instead we have a timid New Democrat, channeling the spirit of candidate Albert Gore, and a deranged Republican Party infiltrated with Jacobite Tea Partiers. The idea and practice of civic republican virtue has been too long dormant as an operative political philosophy in our national life.

Almost Marx