{"id":2276,"date":"2016-08-15T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T14:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2016-08-15T07:55:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T14:55:43","slug":"a-public-service-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2276","title":{"rendered":"A Public Service Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We interrupt this presidential campaign (and my numerous pontifications on it) to remind you of the essential nature of bourgeois politics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.\u201d\u00a0 &#8212; V.I. Lenin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, yes: I know. The guy was a major-league authoritarian. No disputes there. That still doesn&#8217;t make his observation above any the less valid.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, the wording above is Lenin&#8217;s, not Marx&#8217;s, though Lenin wrote it while paraphrasing Marx. You can find the source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/lenin\/works\/1917\/staterev\/ch05.htm\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We interrupt this presidential campaign (and my numerous pontifications on it) to remind you of the essential nature of bourgeois politics: \u201cThe oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.\u201d\u00a0 &#8212; V.I. Lenin Yes, yes: I know. The guy was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}