Wow! Some replies to my comment about Caitlin which are less that completely idiotic. Even worth responding to. I do not do this much so I am not sure how to aggregate a reply so that all of them receive it.

All three failed to fully get the point I was making. Yes, the 80s was about an organized counterrevolution from the neoliberals. This was possible because the flower powers of the 1970’s never had any real ideas.

There was a question that went around constantly during those times. “You keep saying what you are against, but never what you are for”. The left never seems to be able to answer that question.

Caitlin cannot answer it either. She is, as said, a very good commentator. She has the diagnosis but not the prescription.

Some people seem to thing the prescription calls for a violent revolution. That may be a requirement but it is more complicated than that. To repeat again, to replace capitalism you must have the post capitalist world figured out. When you have that, it will tell you how to go about removing capitalism.

Someone in the comments box thundered that all this requires leaders. He is thinking about a third party for the US. In Canada we have had a third party for awhile. It has not gone anywhere. Now we have a fourth party which is not helping itself much.

Parties and elections will of course get us nowhere. What we need is a revolutionary movement and that is not around for the simple reason that the revolution is not ready to happen yet. If there is anything the Real Marxists have learned in a couple of centuries it is to stay out of sight until then. That is probably why we do not see them.

In fact, most of the noise we hear on all public platforms is not what real people are thinking. This is the people with mental problems who are being stirred up and mobilized into street armies and cyber armies to serve the agendas of rival factions of the ruling classes. Normal people are repelled by the whole thing and stand aside, but watch and wait.

By the way, another big drawback of political commentary these days is that everyone sees just one monolithic ruling elite. To understand it right you have to be aware of the competing factions in the oligarchy. This is how democratic revolutions have usually happened, from the Athenians to the Florentines; the conflicts within the oligarchy become so destructive that there is no choice but to give power to those who have a stake in the whole, not just in their factional interests; the ordinary people.

So there is a lot to talk about besides just; everybody become “aware”. Subscribe to my half baked version of Buddhism and try to act like you do not have a self. Eat some magic mushrooms. But also, worry about them taking away ‘civil rights’ you never had anyway.

What I want to do on the net is to try to develop a clear understanding of post capitalism. I am not sure just how to go about it. I am starting do do some fictional writing to envision life in a system of real socialism, real democracy, and real planning.

You can find most of my recent stuff at my more recent blog at https://yaxls.wordpress.com/ or at substack. (Tim Rourke) I might even get Cait and followers to start thinking more in that direction. Wouldn’t that be great!