Just had an epiphany about why the right hates social security (and libraries as well). It’s basic Marxist materialism.
Capitalism needs to expand. So if there is any market they will fill it, and even if there isn’t a market they will invent it. The problem is when you have state run services that aren’t profit driven, then capitalists can’t compete. They can’t even enter that market space. For every one dollar in Social Security the administration overhead is 1 cent. Imagine if Amazon had a 1cent on the dollar overhead and margin, everything would be insanely cheap. And no billionaire owners.
Capitalists cant compete with state run social services so they are hell bent on destroying them. It’s so obvious and points out the inherent inefficiency of capitalism!
American libraries and archives have a long white supremacist and colonialist history, such as excluding Black patrons, and many today collaborate with cops and are used to gather data for ICE. I strongly recommend anyone interested in libraries to read the following:
“Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance” by Sarah Lamdan
“Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves” by Fobazi Ettarh
Also, they’re not just being attacked by right-wingers, but by “public-private partnerships” as well.
Defending libraries isn’t wrong, but we shouldn’t whitewash their problematic past and present in the process.
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