iPod Progressives

A Guardian pundit stumbles upon inequality quoting Marx, Peacock, Orson Wells and other “radical critics” of capitalism.

Gee, in  340 St. Ambrose said,

HOW far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common... Nature gave all things in common for the use of all; usurpation created private rights. Property hath no rights. The earth is the Lord’s, and we are his offspring.

How many “progressives” have read Teologia de Liberación ? or have a remembrance of Jeremiah

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,  his upper rooms by injustice,  making his own people work for nothing,   not paying them for their labor.  (22:13)

Excuse me, but this is nothing new.  Of course it should make you angry; the question is, why hasn’t it before?

Because, as Marx might say, capitalism has dictated your consciousness.  (Read fetish of the commodity.) 

In the end, the fetish alienates you not merely from the fruits of your labor but from the world’s “beauty” which is “reduced to a mere appearance in order  the more easily to dispose of it.”  (Von Balthasar)

I really have no use or patience with iPod Progressives or 401kLiberals.  You are courtiers at Versailles. You look but out but don’t see.  You think you can have justice without sacrifice. 

“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth”  — Lucy Parsons.

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