class_struggle unhinged 'the democratic openings we achieved were fought and paid for with the blood of abolitionists, african americans, suffragists, workers, and antiwar and civil rights activists. our radical movements, repressed and ruthlessly dismantled in the name of anticommunism, were the real engines of equality and social justice. now that unions have been broken and sweatshops implanted in the developing world, the squalor and suffering inflicted on workers by the oligarchic class in the nineteenth century is mirrored in the present. dissent is once again a criminal act. the mellons, rockefellers, and carnegies at the turn of the last century sought to create a nation of masters and serfs. the modern corporate incarnation of this nineteenth-century oligarchic elite has created a worldwide neofeudalism under which workers across the planet toil in misery while corporate oligarchs amass hundreds of millions in personal wealth... class struggle defines most of human history. marx got this right. the seesaw of history has thrust the oligarchs upward. we sit humiliated and broken on the ground. it is an old battle. it has been fought over and over in human history. the only route left to us, as aristotle knew, is either submission or revolt.' - chris hedges 171207 what's it to you? who go blather from