| Why are they trying to destroy social security, for example? There’s no serious economic problem, it’s all fraud. It’s in as good fiscal health as it’s ever been, but it is a system that benefits the general population. It is of no use at all to the wealthy. But a very large part of the population, maybe 60 percent or something like that, actually survive on it. So it’s a system that contributes nothing to profit. It has other bad features, like it’s based on the principle that you should care about somebody else. And that’s hopelessly immoral by the moral principles of power and privilege, so you’ve got to knock that idea out of people’s heads and get rid of the social security system. A lot of what’s called - ridiculously - "conservatism" is just pathological fanaticism based on maximization of power and wealth in accord with principles that do now have a legal basis.
On Capitalism, Europe, and the World Bank Z Magazine Jan. 2007 |