Click here to access article by John Spritzler from New Democracy World.
All ruling classes have used this technique throughout the past 10,000 years of their existence, and today's capitalist class is really employing it to the maximum. To his credit Spritzler points this out with recent examples. However, what I think Spritzler misses, or at least doesn't emphasize sufficiently, is that under capitalist class rule, like any class rule, it is impossible to provide for the equitable needs of everyone in society. Someone has to suffer under class rule, and nobody can accept being treated unfairly--that is an integral part of our human nature. Our masters just want us to fight each other over who gets the goodies to divert attention away from them, the ones who are hoarding wealth and power which is promoted by their capitalist system.
Instead of pointing this out, Spritzler focuses on the "best way" to cope with failure within this failed system. I don't think that there is a best way, or even a good way. Thus, the most effective way of fighting this technique would be to
attack the incapacity of capitalist organized societies to meet demands
of social justice. This would raise people's consciousness of the real problem and thereby direct their efforts toward attacking the system and not each other.
