Big money.

Editor,

Protesters outside the proceedings were trying to draw attention to the fact that financial rule changes under discussion are intended to consolidate economic and political power in the hands that hold it now: international capitalists, giant banks, and multinational corporations.

Class struggle was being played out in the streets of London and will be increasingly in streets all over the world as the fact sinks in that government policies, far from addressing fundamental inequities in the world order, and far from being designed to re-engineer the world economy as a democratic economy, are geared to blunt the ability of people who do not operate at the top of the financial pyramid to seize political and economic power for ourselves.

When the cops opposing demonstrators in the street realize which side has their interests in mind, then change will come. Until then it will be bones for the dispossessed to gnaw on, distractions, and efforts to muddle the picture of who it is that has and who is laboring for them.

Look at Barack's reasons for aiding development in poor countries: educate workers for the corporations, create consumers, prevent anti-Americanism. Who makes the big money in this arrangement? The people who are making big money now.

re: "The Economic Summit" (4/3/2009)