The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

Will the whiny socialist kids please stop throwing tantrums about a global system that’s functioning just fine, thank you?That’s essentially the gist of Kevin Bloom’s article in The Daily Maverick, where he dismisses the critiques of the upcoming World Movement for Democracy conference as nothing more than a fit of “incandescent rage”. His piece, titled Global Democracy Conference in SA Dodges Trump Bullet Fired by an Irate Zwelinzima Vavi, seems to imply that any criticism of this US-state-sponsored event — which is, let’s remember, designed to further the national interests of…