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From the "left" above I find:
In Ecuador, a land I have studied and worked in, a broad coalition of indigenous, environmentalists, trade unions, professional organizations, feminists, gay activists, left parties, and students laid the groundwork for transformation. They just re-elected Rafael Correa, their leftist standard-bearer, as president. They fought racism, oligarchs, oil companies, and corrupt politicians for decades.
The economies of Latin America's red eleven are improving, although none of them has instituted a socialist utopia. They are still subject to the slings and arrows of egotism, error, and internecine conflict. But they have overcome the greatest impediments to their advancement, including the U.S.-based bankers who are draining our treasury now. And the civil society they created in the struggle is the guarantor of their democracy.
Notice, again, the connection between Oil and Dollars (or Physical Power and Psychological (Political) Power), where an obvious POWER of defense is first imagined into thoughtful being and then executed by physical action – where an Oil Monopoly Power combined with a Money Monopoly POWER is forced out of that land where people reside.
The remaing question is then; who governs who (after the old bosses are removed from power)?
Here is Marx on that question:
For Marx, capital and labor were not merely two economic categories. Capital for him was the manifestation of the past, of labor transformed and amassed into things; labor was the manifestation of life, of human energy applied to nature in the process of transforming it. The choice between capitalism and socialism (as he understood it) amounted to this: Who (what) was to rule over what (whom)? What is dead over what is alive, or what is alive over what is dead? (Cf. E. Fromm, 1961, 1968)
Who takes control of legal purchasing power and how does that arrangement work out in specific transfers of power?
In other words: "How much interest (cost) is paid by who to who for the use of legal money, and be accurate in the answer (no fraudulent data)?"