It is a vicious attack on Chicano-Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Native American Indian and all nationally oppressed peoples and their communities. It means going backwards to the right of states to re-segregate, discriminate and kill affirmative action programs. It means building more prisons, instead of feeding and housing destitute families. In just one week House committees voted to end federal entitlement for Medicaid, reduce the earned income tax credit, disassemble the Legal Services Corporation, cut Head Start, reduce funding for public broadcasting and the arts and launched an all-out attack on Medicare and Social Security. It seems that almost every day now a bill is passed in one house or another, released from committee or introduced, that would take from the poor and give to the rich.
Monopoly capital sees privatization as a companion piece to ending entitlements.
Privatization and corruption go hand in hand. Privatization promotes corruption and corruption promotes privatization. Almost daily we see new examples of the corrupt, decaying side of state-monopoly capitalism. Over the years they have become thoroughly infested with, and even headed by, virulent racists like ex-L.A. Police Chief Darryl Gates, who seek out and hire the most backward criminal thugs they can find. But the Fuhrman tapes have forced the majority of Americans to face the open, racist nature of so many of our big city police departments.