The criminal justice establishment aims at imposing standards of morality and good behavior created by the powerful on the whole of society. Focus is on separating the powerful from have nots who would steal from others and protecting themselves from physical attacks. In the process the legal rights of poor folks might be ignored.

The middle class are also co-opted; they side with the elites rather the poor, thinking they might themselves rise to the top by supporting the status quo. So you continue to support the status quo!!!

That is why small crimes, even minor monetary ones are routinely punished quite severely, while large scale financial and business crimes are treated much more leniently. Theft of a television might receive a longer sentence than stealing millions through illegal business practices.

Therefore modern capitalist societies were controlled by a wealthy few who controlled the means of production while everyone else was reduced to the lot of being wage laborers.

From this perspective, certain types of crime take on a different character. Stealing can be seen as an attempt to take away from the rich.

This gives us the materialist view of history starts from the premise that the most important determinant of social life is the work people are doing, especially work that results in provision of the basic necessities of life, food, clothing and shelter.

SO #100 M. SIMON you know economics???
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In America for ceturies there has been Economic exploitation which ultimately leads directly to political oppression, as owners make use of their economic power to gain control of the state and turn it into a servant of economic interests. Police power, for instance, is used to enforce property rights and guarantee unfair contracts between capitalist and worker. Oppression also takes more subtle forms: religion serves capitalist interests by pacifying the population; intellectuals, paid directly or indirectly by capitalists, spend their careers justifying and rationalizing the existing social and economic arrangements.

Finally, (my hands are tired) the economic structure of society molds the superstructure, including ideas and the social institutions that support the class structure of society for example–the state, the educational system, the family, and religious institutions–.

Because the dominant or ruling class controls the social relations of production, the dominant ideology in capitalist society is that of the ruling class. Ideology and social institutions, in turn, serve to reproduce and perpetuate the economic class structure.

So you have those capitalist then you have a Democracy. So thats Capitalism and Democracy.

You have “THE PEOPLE” yelling Democratic Principle to tackle issues, Then You have the Capitalist using democratic principle to solve capitalistic problems… Because Capitalist can never just be said to be capitalist!!

Hope this helps everyone…

Class Dismissed!.

Oh and Joe is right he is a lying scumbag.

Joe Wilson was right.

His was a strategy of “tell them what they want to hear”, and make sure you add a lot of wiggle room. Use present tense when your audience thinks you’re talking about the future. Dazzle them with weasel words.

Obama has been more successful than any black politician in the past, because he talks like a white radical. People like Jackson and Sharpton, and Jones and Wright just come out and tell you to your face what they’re thinking. They’ll never get anywhere doing that. Obama plays his cards a lot closer to his vest, and talks in broad generalities and euphemisms, more like Ayers and Holdren.

What you’re hearing is radical doublespeak. It’s like Arafat’s nicey-sounding speeches, that mean something very different in Arabic. Obama is a lot more like Ayers than Jones. He’s learned the Alinskyite art of mumblemarxism.

It’s not very effective in presidential speechifying, however. And he’s (and Axlerod, etc.) not smart enough to adapt methods. What you heard was the banality of poorly encrypted new-age Marxism.

Bit of an elitist bigot aren’t we?

–The UnPatriot