[Rantman] Fwd: great post "Grapes of Wrath - 2011"

[Richard Pauli]

I love history most when it imparts greater meaning to the present.

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Subject: 	great post
Date: 	Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:15:42 -0500
From: 	Elizabeth Courtenay Wilson <ecwilson at MIT.EDU>
To: 	rpauli at speakeasy.org


http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-grapes-wrath-2011


*Grapes Of Wrath - 2011*

/"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the 
great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to 
know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is 
taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are 
hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little 
screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to 
strengthen and knit the repressed." --/*John Steinbeck*--Grapes of Wrath 
<http://www.amazon.com/dp/0147716756?tag=thebur01-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0147716756&adid=0PB90SCK8JA2VSA4QJF7> 


    Steinbeck became the champion of the working class. When he decided
    to write a novel about the plight of migrant farm workers, he took
    his task very seriously. To prepare, he lived with an Oklahoma farm
    family and made the journey with them to California. Seventy years
    later the plight of the working class is the same. If Steinbeck were
    alive today he would live with a Michigan auto manufacturing family
    making a journey to fantasyland of green energy, where automobiles
    ran on corn and sunshine. The working class bore the brunt of the
    Great Depression in the 1930s and they are bearing the burden during
    our current Greater Depression. Steinbeck knew who the culprits
    were seventy years ago. We know who the culprits are today. They are
    one in the same. The moneyed banking interests caused the Great
    Depression and they created the disastrous collapse that has thus
    far destroyed 7 million middle class jobs. Steinbeck understood that
    the poor working class of this country had more dignity
    and compassion for their fellow man than any Wall Street banker out
    for enrichment at the expense of the working class.


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