Click here to access article by Jerome Roos from Reflections on a Revolution.
In this posting Roos describes a new billionaire backed venture led by Greenwald which I think offers another illustration of middle-class liberal type of a political critique and activity that I discussed in a recent post. Liberals like Greenwald function on the edge of criticism that the ruling class tolerates. Such critiques serve the system and its ruling class by co-opting serious critics and diverting their attention away from the capitalist system itself and onto moral issues. Such people are often referred to as "gatekeepers".
Roos is far more sympathetic to Greenwald and his associates than I am. He merely sees them as misguided, whereas I see them likely serving consciously as gatekeepers for the ruling class. (See this, this, and this.)
