Organic Mutant

From the consistently brilliant Billmon:

I’m more of an ex-Marxist, ex-socialist, ex-revolutionary who eventually came to understand that Marx got his economics wrong, that socialism doesn’t work and that Peter Townsend was essentially right about the new boss being the same as the old boss. When I was in Russia, I even got to see the old bosses who became the new bosses turning back into the old bosses again.

On the other hand, I still despise bourgeois “morality” (the mother of all oxymorons), feel a persistent pull of sympathy to class-based, left-wing movements in places like Latin America (even though I believe resistance is essentially futile) and would very much like to see a radical redistribution of political power in this country — although through peaceful, not violent, means. Obviously, I’m not holding my breath.

Mostly what that makes me, I suppose, is politically irrelevant and — in today’s environment — something of a borderline nihilist. Also a fairly complete sell out, since I get up each day and go to work for an enormous corporation that stands for just about everything I claim to oppose.