Capital's War on the People
Against The Current vol. 149
Hossein-zadeh, Ismael
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3091
Date Written: 2010-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13711
Instead of calling the recent G-20’s brutal austerity declaration (issued at the conclusion of its annual summit in Toronto) an orchestrated declaration of class war on the people, many progressive/Keynesian economists and other liberal commentators simply call it “bad policy.” While it is true that, as these commentators point out, the Hooverian message of the declaration is bound to worsen the recession, it is nonetheless not a matter of “bad” policy; it is a matter of class policy.
