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Republican Ideology: Handouts for the Rich, Prison for the Poor |
| Published: December 19, 2007, 8:06 am |
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Beneath their deceptive discourse about the great conflict between "government bureaucracy" (bad) and "free market" capitalism (good), they wish to aggressively wield and expand a "state capitalist" policy that is plutocratic and authoritarianRepublicans want to de-fund and de-legitimize what the late French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called "the left hand of the state" - the programs and services won by past popular struggles and social movements to social justice, equality, and inclusion But they does not wish to take the budgetary or policy axe to the "right hand of the state" - the parts that provide service and welfare to concentrated wealth and dole out punishment for the poorThis includes rampant mass incarceration and felony-marking These right-handed functions tend to rise when left-handed functions fallState Capitalism [Original]Republicans can pontificate and preach all they want about their desire "to cut government down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub" [ Full article ] |
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