WSWS.org are bad mouthing someone who isn't declaring capitalism the great
Satan. Wow, I'm shocked. Not they're completely wrong, but as usual the
analysis is over simplified and downright predictable. Its no different than
Bush declaring that ANWAR needs to be destroyed so we can get cheap gas.
(Okay, the ICF/DN! thing is not as bad as Bush Jr's oil crisis idea. Destroying
a nature reserve to get 10 years worth of gas 5 years from now is just dumb.
As my uncle said, Obama, Nader or McCain could jump up and down for 8 years and
do no worse than our current President.)
No offense, but my problem with the ICF is that they believe in some sort
intellectual singularity to the point of religious zealotry. Everything boils
down to the evil of capitalism and the embrace of Marxism. If I wanted blind
obedience with careful analysis and the intake of alternative POVs, I'd go to
church.
--- On Tue, 6/17/08, Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NewPacifica] KPFK and Democracy Now -- Letter on popular socialist
website
To: mitchelcohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 4:00 AM
A letter from "JW" about KPFK and Pacifica, on the World Socialist
WebSite
http://www.wsws. org/articles/ 2008/jun2008/ corr-j17. shtml
Your observation that media reform is "a movement still in the orbit
of the Democratic Party" also seems true with Pacifica radio KPFK in
Los Angeles. I have sent links to your article to several at the
station and their "Program Comments" page.
"Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman is perhaps the most listened-to
current affairs program on KPFK. Every program highlights another
specific economic or political crisis. There is no critical
discussion as to why these events are happening, the underlying
economic forces that connect "single-issue" problems. Political
discourse is so "framed" at KPFK that listeners never hear about any
alternative analysis outside the "status quo" box of electing a few
"progressives" to reform the Democratic Party.
KPFK and Pacifica forever seem to exclude critical discussion of US
and global capitalism as a root cause of the global crises that
humanity now faces. Thus war, economic decline, starvation,
environmental collapse, appear as an unending series of irresolvable
"natural" catastrophes, or just a series of unrelated problems that
will be fixed by replacing Bush with Obama or Nader!
JW
14 June 2008