Perspectives

Excerpt from the article "Change for the Worse: Obama Did It, All By Himself", published October 5, 2011 by Andrew Levine, full text found here at Counterpunch.org

"It became clear decades ago that, for our economic elites and their political representatives, many of us are no longer indispensable either as workers or consumers – not in the global economy recent capitalism has concocted.  This is one reason why the American prison system has grown exponentially; prisons are where America warehouses those whom it would prefer to be without.  Needless to say, in a society where institutional racism still structures economic relations, many of those people are black or brown.  But, as capitalism evolves, even highly educated white people are becoming surplus too, and there is no way to warehouse all of them.  Younger blue and white-collar workers, or would-be workers, are most affected, and now some of them are fighting back.  They are occupying Wall Street."