Can Humanity Make a Stand Against the Onslaught of Capitalist Imperialism

[LiberalUprising]

Slaves to the "Free Market" Unite


Can Humanity Make a Stand Against the Ruthless Onslaught of Capitalist Imperialism?

By JASON MILLER

Utilizing the corporate domination of the mainstream media and educational textbook producers, the patrician class of the United States continues to white-wash history and current events to perpetrate one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of mankind. They have managed to convince many of their plebs of the virtuous, benevolent, and “democratic” nature of America, to the degree that some violently reject the truth when confronted with it.

Relentlessly delivering the triphammer blows of a youthful Mike Tyson, America’s imperialist ruling class of wealthy and corporate elites has been pummeling the poor, minorities, and the working class with impunity for years.

As some of my readers have aptly pointed out, America and its White Christian patriarchy do not have a historical monopoly on abuse of power or exploitation of “lesser people”. It is also true that Anglos have been victimized at various points in history. Yet the United States exists and thrives almost solely because it obscenely exploited Africans to attain economic power and committed genocide against North America’s indigenous people to obtain and expand its territory.

While other nations and races have committed similar atrocities throughout history, Anglos have suffered persecution, and slavery and the Native American genocide are in the past, the actions of the United States and its White patriarchal society were still morally reprehensible. Furthermore, many of the beneficiaries and descendents of the perpetrators remain unrepentant. Recent polls and events also indicate that about a third of Americans still support an entrenched American power structure which flourishes by practicing exploitation and conquest.

The United States is not the only nation currently committing brutalities and injustices, yet Washington is home to a government which claims to be the ultimate moral authority on the globe. While invading and occupying nations which posed no threat to them, slaughtering innocent civilians, and torturing suspected enemies, the United States continues to mouth empty platitudes about spreading freedom and democracy, pompously lecture other nations on human rights, and hypocritically determine which nations are too “evil” to be trusted with nuclear technology.

In his recent book, Overthrow, Stephen Kinzer wrote:

There is no stronger or more persistent strain in the American character than the belief that the United States is a nation uniquely endowed with virtue…..This view is driven by a profound conviction...

http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2006/05/slaves-to-free-market-unite.html


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[ladjf]

1. Yes. But only after most people are too poor to buy anything.

[northamericancitizen]

2. More from same article.....

....

"While the ruling elite have done an exceptional job of employing the concept of divide and conquer in human society (gay vs. straight, pro-life vs. pro-choice, red state vs. blue state, Christianity vs. Islam), a majority of the global population shares at least one common interest. Almost all of us need to trade our labor for our means of sustenance. A global unification of working people of all stripes is what we of the poor and middle classes need to overcome the tyranny of the moneyed ruling class. These modern day monarchs thrive by keeping their peasants in a perpetual state of unnecessary poverty, ignorance, war, and human suffering."

The whole article is worth reading.

Thank you LiberalUprising

nac

[starroute]

3. Workers of the world unite?

Wow, everything old is new again!

[northamericancitizen]

4. That's the idea.

From same article:

It is time for labor to unite on behalf of humanity

In a 1978 letter of resignation from his position of president of the UAW, Douglas Fraser wrote:

SEIU members believe that the only way we can build a better world for all of us is if we unite with workers across the globe. When corporations move around the world looking for opportunities to maximize their profits by driving down pay and benefits standards, no one is safe unless we work together. That's why school bus drivers, are joining together on both sides of the Atlantic to hold First Service accountable, and why on June 15 janitors from around the world will be celebrating International Justice Day and discussing where their campaigns to raise standards should go next."

Now, could it work?

nac

[AndyTiedye]

5. It's Not Capitalism Anymore When Robber Barons Buy the Government

There is another word for that kind of government. It starts with an "F".

[katty]

8. right, now more corporations than nations, the corporate

international agenda is toward increased globalization and Free Trade (see 'servitude')areas. Some, in fact, greater numbers of humanity, have an idealized version of One World, One Humanity trading/sharing/cooperating as sovereign nations/territories with respect for each others rules/regs/culture. This is certainly NOT the vision of international corporatists who have achieved major control over governments/military/law enforecement-and no doubt America is their Super Corporation. One might have more quality of life living in a remote jungle with their small self-sufficient tribe.

[Odin2005]

6. My knoledge of history tells me to fear the worse.

When a civilization goes into terminal decline a "Universal State" encompassing most of the civilization develops. The Roman Empire (Graeco-Roman Civilization), Han China (Sinic Civilization), and the Arab Caliphate (Irano-Syriac Civilization) are examples of universal states. They are the inevitable result of a dying civilization. Once a civilization goes into breakdown, ushering in a volitile period lasting on average 400 years before the Universal State, the formation of the universal state will only be avoided if the civilization is absorbed by another civilization.

The Universal State is a creration of a civilization's degenerating elites, and the start of it's existance goes hand in hand with the spread of a universalistic ideology ammong the elites, in our case it is the Neo-Liberalism of Milton Friedman, Francis Fukuyama, and Co. The end result, I fear, is the West being under the de facto control of the multinational corporations who keep up the illusion of democratic nation-states the same way the Caesars kept up the illusion of the constitutional rule by the Senate.

As a civilization dies the masses will convert to a new religion, just as the Romans converted to Christianity, the people of the Middle East to Islam, and the Chinese to Buddhism. What that religion will be I cannot say, it probably hasn't even been born yet. The elites will fight it, they require the Old Religion for thier legitamacy, thats why the Vatican is worrying so much about Christianity in the West as opposed to new converts in Asia and Africa, and why the Neo-Cons are allies of the Theo-Cons. As more and more people convert to the new religion the old elites will become first converted, then proletaricized, and then absorbed by the new elite of the new universal church in the last years of the dying civilization.

The West is doomed to die. The only thing We the People can determine is the nature of the new civilization that emerges from the old.

[Leber tsohG]

7. i dont mean to sound pessimistic...

but humanity has already lost this battle. it's too late.

the elite have already won. they own us in every single way in every imaginable category.. what can the common people do about it?

im sorry but i just dont see things changing anytime soon.. only an act of God will change the world.

[katty]

9. yr not pessimistic, you're realistic