Friday, August 27, 2004

The Declaration of Independence

By James L. Secor

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  1. John Jay, one the Declaration’s signers, said at the time that America should be governed by the men who owned it.

    I can only imagine that if JJ were alive today, he’d be quite pleased at the way things turned out.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from  on  08/27  at  09:23 PM

  2. Important article. People need to understand what a sham the constitution is and replace the ill-founded faith-based reverence they hold for this parchment and the founding fathers. People might better heed the strong kernel of truth to the aphorism that “actions speak louder than words.”

    Chomsky often cites James Madison, the main framer of the constitution, who stated the constitution’s main purpose was “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” This consanguinity has been preserved through until today.

    Posted by kim from  on  08/28  at  08:20 AM

  3. With the modern state, economics and politics are de-linked.  Democracy becomes the economy. 

    Meanwhile, labor gets cheapened, deskilled and mechanized.  Such changes in the labor process are done legally to boost productivity. 

    This rising productivity is revolutionary, but only in the hands of the laboring class.  The opposite prevails now. 

    That is what must change.

    Seth Sandronsky

    Posted by Seth Sandronsky from  on  08/28  at  01:12 PM

  4. James and all,

    My second sentence in comment #3 should read:
    “Yet democracy becomes the economy.”

    More coffee is needed.

    Seth

    Posted by Seth Sandronsky from  on  08/28  at  07:31 PM

  5. Seth...would it not be better to say that the economy has become democracy? Who, after all, runs the economy? We are fooling ourselves to believe--as most of America does--that it’s us. We have no demands any more. This is unfortunate because it turns revolutionaries into economic-based eye-ballers; people who interpet the human condition and its betterment from solely an economic angle. That is, people--the masses--are just economic agents. This alone takes away our individuality; but, as this view of the world only sees things in the conglomerate mass, our individuality is doubly trashed. These people forget that it is individual people who make up the masses, those same masses who neither knew, for the most part, what all the hoopla was about over “the revolution” nor had any input on the framing of the Constitution or the engendering of the Nation-state that became the United States of America. In this nation of individuality, individuals have been lost. As, apparently, they were for the ideological elitest Enlightenment thinkers who took us to war...over economics.

    Posted by secor from  on  08/31  at  10:57 AM
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