counterforce unhinged '...there's gonna be constant pressure - we can be certain of it - from systems of power to prevent any constraint on expanding their power, and the profit. and the only counterforce is *you*. to the extent that the public fights back, effective systems can be created - not only to regulate the big banks, but to insist they demonstrate their legitimacy. and that challenge should be imposed on the institutions of the financial system, very broadly. that's another task for an organized, committed, dedicated population - not just to regulate them , but to ask *why they're there*. remember, it's not a law of nature that the united states doesn't have a manufacturing industry. why should management make those decisions? why shouldn't those decisions be in the hands of what are called 'stakeholders,' the workforce and the community? why shouldn't *they* decide what happens to the steel industry? why shouldn't they *run* the steel industry? these are very concrete questions. in fact, we're constantly seeing cases where, if there were enough popular mobilization and activism, we would have a productive industry manufacturing the right things.' - noam chomsky 180829 what's it to you? who go blather from