I've recently been reading some interesting blogs and books regarding socio-economic trends and possible futures. What strikes me, at this moment in time, is the feeling of rising tension among people blogging, and commenting on blogs, across the Western world.
Big calls for Rothschild's blood can be heard right across America! He, apparently, "owns" most of the world's currencies. Meaning that despite us all relying heavily on local credit for houses, cars, shopping, and the like, nations are 'in hock' for their own currencies! Society as a whole is stuck in debt-slavery! Neoliberal capitalism relies on social inequality to operate. There has to be an unemployed group to keep the employed in check. But how far must this inequality go? Well, looking at some of the worst Third World examples, death through destitution and starvation seem to be the markers! Could it really happen here? Check out some of the stories doing the Facebook rounds!
Reading through the blogs and comments on the web, my first shock is the building tension in the USA (of all places) over the rise in corporate wealth and power. Weren't they expecting it then? I was always led to believe that the average American was inculcated in the belief that more was good. Ergo, their global corporate beasts were great. Have they suddenly come to realise that corporate behemoths will take food out of the mouths of babies and children to feed themselves? That nationality means nothing? That flags, constitutions and democracy are meaningless? Wasn't that supposed to be a "good thing" that America "ruled the world"?
My fear is that most of these very angry people are heading in the most dangerous direction. They seem to be baying for blood! Revolution is in the air and that's never a good thing if not properly coordinated and planned. The problem of "exit strategy" needs to be addressed. The "End Goal" needs to be formerly devised, agreed and ratified. Revolution run purely on adrenaline would only lead to unnecessary death and carnage and lead us back into a state of confusion from which would emerge yet another "strong leader"! Yet another psychopathic despot to "bring order"! Karl Marx and Rosa Luxembourg argued that there could not be a successful revolution without a politically aware proleteriat. We need to gather, organise, plan and execute! We can't just "kick ass"!
The problem of counter-revolution needs to be addressed. No revolution, however well intended, has managed to stem the counter-revolutionary. The individual, or group, that enjoins the revolutionary group to secure their own less-than-honourable ends. Stalin was just such a counter-revolutionary. His 'interpretation' of Marx was to kill anyone who disagreed with the Bolsheviks, and anything he decreed! Mao Tse Dung was just a power-hungry "emperor-in-waiting", as far as I could tell. To overthrow a despotic, imperial class and to ensconce himself in the same role as that of the recently deposed emperor hardly represents "mature communism".
I have come to the conclusion that capitalists are all psychopathic. The genuine realities of unchecked capitalism are the total destruction of our peoples and our planet. I'm not too sure which will come soonest, but the inevitable outcome can only be total anihilation of human life on Earth. Governed by one or two huge corporations and a tiny number of rich elites, our planet will be stripped bare of anything they deem holds any "value". The people who work the land will be starved in favour of the rich, or disease-ridden, or crushed by unnecessary wars waged using automated killing machines and global destruction due to depleted resources. All pretty psychopathic outcomes, I feel. Plus, there really doesn't seem to be any reasoning with them! Profit is god.
A question was posed by my sociology lecturer: "We've apparently reached the 'third stage'. What do you think might be the 'fourth'?" I wonder..........
The problem of counter-revolution needs to be addressed. No revolution, however well intended, has managed to stem the counter-revolutionary. The individual, or group, that enjoins the revolutionary group to secure their own less-than-honourable ends. Stalin was just such a counter-revolutionary. His 'interpretation' of Marx was to kill anyone who disagreed with the Bolsheviks, and anything he decreed! Mao Tse Dung was just a power-hungry "emperor-in-waiting", as far as I could tell. To overthrow a despotic, imperial class and to ensconce himself in the same role as that of the recently deposed emperor hardly represents "mature communism".
I have come to the conclusion that capitalists are all psychopathic. The genuine realities of unchecked capitalism are the total destruction of our peoples and our planet. I'm not too sure which will come soonest, but the inevitable outcome can only be total anihilation of human life on Earth. Governed by one or two huge corporations and a tiny number of rich elites, our planet will be stripped bare of anything they deem holds any "value". The people who work the land will be starved in favour of the rich, or disease-ridden, or crushed by unnecessary wars waged using automated killing machines and global destruction due to depleted resources. All pretty psychopathic outcomes, I feel. Plus, there really doesn't seem to be any reasoning with them! Profit is god.
A question was posed by my sociology lecturer: "We've apparently reached the 'third stage'. What do you think might be the 'fourth'?" I wonder..........
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