Posted On: July 7, 2008, 11:12 am CDT

Posted By: Hal

This brings to mind Marx's description of the French finance aristocracy before the revolution of 1848, in which "the mania to get rich was repeated in every sphere... to get rich not by production, but by pocketing the already available wealth of others."

Marx wrote: "Clashing every moment with the bourgeois laws themselves, an unbridled assertion of unhealthy and dissolute appetites manifested itself, particularly at the top of bourgeois society—lusts wherein wealth derived from gambling naturally seeks its satisfaction, where pleasure becomes debauched, where money, filth and blood commingle."

Corporate corruption, $45MM severence packages for CEOs stepping down in failure, poor widows denied death benefits, no justice for the weak. The time is ripe for "Meaningful Change". Carl would be proud of just how far we've sunk.

And so it goes...