For the last 34 years or so, we've seen the capitalist establishment transform from a cold-war, Keynesian apparatus with some degree of social welfare into a hypermonetarist, ultra-militarised servant of the superrich, with a pronounced hostility to anything that stands in its way. For years, rich people have been annoyed by a model of society whereby people can access services paid for by their taxes. 'We could be selling them these services', was the thought. Still, the fact states had centralised into rich honey pots was also a sexy prospect - the superrich are not interested in saving the tax payer money either. In the UK, a cursory glance at the history of PPP and PFI demonstrates this amply. Via the mass media, inculcating a dogma of selfishness into the popular consciousness has the benefit of being an apparently universal ideology that, indexed to the reality of extreme inequality, tends to only actually benefit the organised ruling class, whilst tending to fracture all other people meaning no recognition of common interest for the majority thus infected. Whatever your creed, the ruling classes of today have forced class warfare upon you. The superrich have declared all relations of kindness and compassion are now enemies of the state - whether secular welfare or even religion. (Note that, in the US, it is the most dogmatic and virulent conservative Christians who give the most to the poor via charity, but it is also the same group that tends to support the policies that ensure there are poor people). The superrich have declared war on all of us. It's now up to us to respond.