[Marxism] Another Swans year-end summary

[Louis Proyect]

(Click the link below for a month-by-month graphic of how things went 
down in 2010.)

The stage of the New Year was set in January 2010 when the Supreme Court 
silenced We the People's voices by granting free speech rights to the 
political purchasing power of corporations in a case brought forth by 
(though not made up of) Citizens United. From then on, change we once 
believed in morphed into more of the same, and worse. Health care reform 
was negotiated and whittled away into "reforms" that are still years 
away from being realized -- if they survive the myriad lawsuits and the 
Republican takeover of the House of Representatives -- and universal 
health care (forget a single-payer system) saw not the light of day in 
the shadow of the towering insurance companies poised to enlarge their 
already obscene profits under a mandatory insurance requirement. On the 
home front, first-quarter statistics revealed a 35% increase in 
foreclosures from Q1 2009 -- only later in the year would banks' 
robo-signing practices designed to speed up the pace be disclosed.

full: http://www.swans.com/library/art16/jeb223.html