[D66] bipartisan assault on social reform

[Antid Oto]

"There was always a great gap between the promises of bourgeois social 
reform and the reality, precisely because all such measures remained 
anchored in the defense of capitalist property and profits. 
Nevertheless, the fact that the bourgeoisie today treats its own past 
reform policies as tantamount to subversion is a measure of the decay of 
American capitalism and its political system. The major signposts of 
that decay are the vast growth of social inequality and the increasing 
role of financial parasitism in the US economy.
The current Democratic administration, in the midst of the second global 
breakdown of capitalism in the past century, has no “New Deal” to offer. 
Obama has not proposed a single genuine social reform.
A system that is compelled to violently oppose any form of social 
progress is a system in profound crisis. To the extent that the ruling 
class and its political representatives repudiate their own past reform 
policies, the social layers upon which they base their rule grow ever 
more narrow."

http://wsws.org/articles/2012/sep2012/pers-s25.shtml