I want to write about and add a critique about this whole END THE FED dciiussson. I'm not saying that this isn't an important issue, but I want to caution those who hold this close to their hearts from not being overly deterministic when they bring this topic up in conversation. I'm beginning to notice a few of you who are dissatisfied that this topic is not constantly and soley up for dciiussson at all times.We have to recognize the difference between causal inference and dialectical relationships. Arguing that the dciiussson of the FED should be of primary importance is healthy, but calling for its destruction to be our one and only goal is egoistic, and overly deterministic.What I mean is that this dciiussson implies that the federal reserve is the root of the problem. It may be, I'm not well versed in monetary policy. But it is not the only conversation worth having. This would be as short-sighted as saying Al Gore invented the internet, there-for, we have Al Gore to thank for the creation of social networking and the rise of horizontal participatory democracy movements like this And ManBearPig.Our technology discloses our relatiionship with nature. A technological innovation with regards to the federal reserve question is the money commodity (a need to resolve the difference between the use-value and exchange-value of commodities we produce). This relationship is effected and effects, dialectically, our proecesses of production (labor), which in turn, dialectically relates to the reproduction of daily life (commodities we use and need every day) and which is further developed in a dialogue between our dialy life and our social relations.This continuous process is itself a disclosure of the interaction of our social relations and the way we labor and produce.Our social relations dialectically effect and are effected by our mental conceptions, which in turn effect and are effected by our technology.These dialectical (not causal) relationships further show us the interconnected interactions between our mental concepts, our processes of porduction, our social relations (and the relationship between our processes of production and social relations) and how they all relate back to our technological development.Is the Fed part of the problem? Probably. Is it the only issue we need to address? Not even close. Please think of the big picture before freaking out about not moving quick enough to reformulate monetary policy in the USA. I encourage the dciiussson and ask that those of you interested go to the Occuptation and go around on your own volition to form a study group on the subject. This way, you can form proposals for joint action which will be tempered by the heat of a wide variety of opinions before being put into the crucible of the General Assembly.
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