http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/people-of-color-face-historic-wealth-loss/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/people-of-color-face-historic-wealth-loss/#comment-13639 Mulga Mumblebrain Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:57:07 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/people-of-color-face-historic-wealth-loss/#comment-13639 The power of capitalism not only to destroy the natural world, but also to impoverish and immiserate millions, while all the time stealing from posterity by exploiting far beyond the planet’s current capacity, can only be summoned into dreadful action by a certain type of human creature. Most people would hesitate before deliberately entrapping and pauperising others. Most people would have at least some second thoughts before closing a factory and re-locating to a poor country to exploit its cheap, downtrodden labour. Most people would pause and contemplate the effects on generations yet unborn of their selfish actions in the here and now. Not the capitalist. As has been often pointed out, capitalism favours the psychopath, the creature indifferent to the suffering of others, the plausible denier, the ruthless self-seeker. Capitalism’s greatest evil, however, is its spiritual toxicity. Through their total dominance of the media and the means of communication, and through their ruthless selectivity in ensuring their human media property are completely committed to spreading Market propaganda, no matter how many and how transparent are the lies that must be concocted and disseminated, the parasite class has brainwashed the world. It is now most peoples’ view of life that one spends one’s precious Earthly existence in the unending drudgery of wage-slavery, accumulating as many possessions as possible while one’s soul and character slowly corrode. Our society exhults the avaricious, the venal, the unprincipled and the unscrupulous. These attitudes infect politics, where men and women of principle have long since been purged. Naturally racism, along with misogyny, sectarian hatreds and internecine antipathy amongst the parasites themselves act as a synergistic, fulminating, infection. Fortunately capitalism is a self-limiting disease. Like most cancers it cannot be transmitted to another host, we having, fortunately, not yet escaped the bounds of our planet and spread our sickness to the cosmos. Pity is, unless we do something soon, and something..vigorous, the parasites are taking us all over the edge and down into the abyss.

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