{"id":380932,"date":"2018-10-14T13:54:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T12:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-contradictions-of-being-pro-capitalist-and-anti-war\/"},"modified":"2018-10-14T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T12:54:31","slug":"the-contradictions-of-being-pro-capitalist-and-anti-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-contradictions-of-being-pro-capitalist-and-anti-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Contradictions of Being Pro-Capitalist and Anti-War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In his lesser known novel, <em>A Small Town in Germany<\/em>, John Le Carr\u00e9 skewers the diplomatic class in the old West German capital of Bonn. An investigator sent to the drizzly town on the banks of the Rhine discovers a fog of misdirection as he tries to track down a fled spy. At one point, comfortably resigned to his frustration, a glib diplomat tells the investigator, himself at wit\u2019s end, unable to capitalize on an array of clues, \u201cThere\u2019s always something; there\u2019s never enough.\u201d This is largely the story of the socialist \u201copportunists\u201d that the Russian Bolsheviks themselves skewered in the revolutionary and blood-scented atmosphere of World War One Europe. As Vladimir Lenin argues in <em>Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism<\/em>, the socialist opportunists argue for something: a few tepid reforms that may provide a transitory respite in the plight of the poor. But they never go far enough: challenging a system of predatory appropriation for which minor reforms are nothing but an extended sentence. They offered a map to nowhere on a path whose starting and end points are the same.<\/p>\n<p>It is likewise the story of today\u2019s bourgeois liberal class, a hollow parody of progressivism allied with the ruling class establishment. Not only are today\u2019s Democrats purveyors of media misdirection with Russiagate, but their policies are likewise the stuff of fake news and forgotten promises. The liberal class, including its current champion, Bernie Sanders, has yet to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/10\/the-contradictions-of-being-pro-capitalist-and-anti-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his lesser known novel, A Small Town in Germany, John Le Carr\u00e9 skewers the diplomatic class in the old West German capital of Bonn. An investigator sent to the drizzly town on the banks of the Rhine discovers a fog of misdirection as he tries to track down a fled spy. At one point, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}