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“Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business,” concluded America’s leading 20th century social philosopher John Dewey, and will remain so as long as power resides in “business for private profit through private control of banking, land, industry, reinforced by command of the press, press agents and other means of publicity and propaganda”.
Exposing the Un-Democratic Face of Capitalism
[i]Counterpunch[/i] October 10-12, 2008 [/size]
[size=112]Socrates suggests the prisoners would take the shadows to be real things and the echoes to be real sounds created by the shadows.
~~~ [b]Plato[/b] ~~~
[i]The Republic[/i]
Book VII (514a–520a)[/size]
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My thesis for this thread:[/b] You and I will never be exposed to anything even close to truth on how our society actually works because of the inherent lie of capitalism and it's fascist roots.
In this respect we are like babies no matter how serious our political arguments are.
There is an inherent good in Organized Labor.[/size]
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