Day by day we see the cumulative evidence of the failure of Capitalism and the concomitant victory of authoritarian principles and practices of governance,these essays are highly instructive:

Detroit in a hostile takeover bid at the CBS News web site. An attempt by Governor Rick Snyder to cancel valid public sector union contracts, using the economic crisis as rationale for precipitate authoritarian action: the reduction of a once great city, to the status of vessel, by a more powerful and corrupt Free Market political radical.

From Occupation to “Occupy”: The Israelification of American Domestic Security by Max Blumenthal, a report on the siege mentality of the Apartheid State of Israel and the importation of the technology of repression to America, and some it’s domestic political consequences.

The We-Are At-War mentality by Glenn Greenwald, an essay on the continuing legacy that the War on Terror and it’s Neo-Conservative enactors that have become permanently installed in the thinking and actions of established governmental agencies,even the actions of the New Democrat,President Obama.

Paying attention to Zizek’s recent comment about the loss of the automatic legitimacy of the system, starkly contrasted with the ancient concept of the cultivation of civic republican virtue: we are in a crisis that has been precipitated by the failure of Capital to demonstrate any civic responsibility, in fact to simply manifest thievery on a vast scale, without any legal penalty. The perpetrators are walking as free citizens, while their political allies destroy what is left of The New Deal, in the name of ‘Reform’ along the line of institutional peonage of the middle class. All this is taking place while social unrest grows exponentially, as a function of that failed Market paradigm. And the rise of a repressive,militarized police force and the neutralization of Habeas Corpus protections, in the name of National Security, by way of the ticking time bomb argument, and the conformist and craven politicos of the U.S. Senate. We are in deep trouble as a nation, as a republic, as a people. Let me posit an old question, in a new context: What is to be done? Who will answer this question, our Chernyshevsky, our Tolstoy, our Lenin, our Nechaev? Or will the Republic be suffocated from within by it’s elected protectors? 

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