# InternationalWorkers'Day
Today May 1 2018 is International Workers' Day
Artist: Paul Noth, The New Yorker, August 2016
Today May 1 2018 is International Workers' Day
John Gray:
"...What we need, we have been told, is a gentler,
kinder and morally prettier sort of capitalism, one that is based on serving
the public good rather than selfish acquisitiveness. It’s a high-minded
fantasy, which Keynes relegated to a distant future and Marx would have scoffed
at..."
"...In its role as a political tract, The Wire is a polemic against the idea that the unrestrained market is the embodiment of individual liberty. Simon has used the series to expose the contradictions of this atavistic ideology: supposedly aiming to enhance choice, the reinvention of the free market has left the majority of people more exposed to random events and arbitrary power than before. Like the dim remnant on the left that insists communism has yet to be tried, neoliberals will say that the free market still does not yet truly exist. Against this fantasy of market freedom, The Wire is saying: Look, this is how capitalism works..."
"...In its role as a political tract, The Wire is a polemic against the idea that the unrestrained market is the embodiment of individual liberty. Simon has used the series to expose the contradictions of this atavistic ideology: supposedly aiming to enhance choice, the reinvention of the free market has left the majority of people more exposed to random events and arbitrary power than before. Like the dim remnant on the left that insists communism has yet to be tried, neoliberals will say that the free market still does not yet truly exist. Against this fantasy of market freedom, The Wire is saying: Look, this is how capitalism works..."
Johan Norberg:
"Karl Marx thought that capitalism inevitably made the
rich richer and the poor poorer. By the time Marx died, however, the average
Englishman was three times richer than at the time of his birth 65 years
earlier — never before had the population experienced anything like it."
Artist: Paul Noth, The New Yorker, August 2016
When I first saw this brilliant cartoon, I immediately thought of Mr. Donald Trump. The cartoonist also probably meant the same.
But then I thought, the wolf is not him but indeed the naked capitalism that exists today and it tells us- sheep- 'like it is': I am going to eat you....and worse, you can't do a shit about it.