http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/marxism-and-the-economic-crises/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:46:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/marxism-and-the-economic-crises/#comment-30956 bozhidar bob balkas Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:40:41 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=4358#comment-30956 also sprach Zarathustra: payer is the master everywhere; payee is the servant. ach, ja, fuer allen zeiten. allen, allen zeiten meine freunden! deutchen, sagen sie mir bitte ist das gute gramar? danke. also sprach Zarathustra: payer is the master everywhere; payee is the servant.
ach, ja, fuer allen zeiten. allen, allen zeiten meine freunden!
deutchen, sagen sie mir bitte ist das gute gramar?
danke.

]]> http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/marxism-and-the-economic-crises/#comment-30903 Jason Paul Oberg Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:46:59 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=4358#comment-30903 Rohini Hensman's ideas for ending our economic crisis make good sense; unfortunately, they overlook the heart of the problem: The United States government and its corporate controllers are not willing to entertain sensible ideas. This is what brought us to this condition to begin with. As a Capitalist nation, we have reached a final stage, you might say. Capitalism has been steadily waging a war on Democracy in America for the past one-hundred fifty years; in the past few decades, it has been winning that war astoundingly. Sensibility in government comes from a basic compassion and empathy for its constituent population. When corruption (always rearing its ugly head and trying to find a way in) begins to spread, it does so like a cancer. Capitalism allowed corruption to waltz right in, giving it a wide berth. So here we are, in the twenty-first century, witnessing the beginning of the fall of the United States. Washington advocated a policy of isolationism, and that carried us for a time. Once we reached a point of seeing ourselves as the watchmen of the rest of the world, and began laying military roots all over the globe, we ceased to be a "good" nation and became the imperialists we are now. Naturally, capitalism followed, and the dawn of globalization was here. Now, we have no industry left at home, or very little. This is where capitalism leads, unless you have a populace that is enlightened, and understands that the whole is more important than the individual. If you have a populace that holds the opposite philosophy, corruption, greed, and mismanagement abound. At this stage of the game, only revolution can solve the economic crisis we now face. That may seem rash, but if you take into account the way corruption and corporate rule have snowballed over the last few decades, it can only lead you to the conclusion that we're just beginning to see what horrors can be wrought by capitalism. The American Dream is now just that, and the damage is only beginning. Capitalism can only work if kept in check. We are too far gone for that now, having reached a point where our own Constitution means very little anymore. Historians will look back on the twenty-first century United States as a time and place of great ignorance and failing, much the way we now view the Dark Ages. We are living in our own Dark Age. And to counter Hensman's theory, I don't believe the workers of the world are nearly as confused or divided as Hensman suggests. Demoralized, naturally. But that is an illness that can be cured. The time has come for a new dawning of justice, equality and fairness. We already had one Gilded Age. We do not want another, yet here we are. Capitalism is the breeze that blew it in. Rohini Hensman’s ideas for ending our economic crisis make good sense; unfortunately, they overlook the heart of the problem: The United States government and its corporate controllers are not willing to entertain sensible ideas. This is what brought us to this condition to begin with. As a Capitalist nation, we have reached a final stage, you might say. Capitalism has been steadily waging a war on Democracy in America for the past one-hundred fifty years; in the past few decades, it has been winning that war astoundingly. Sensibility in government comes from a basic compassion and empathy for its constituent population. When corruption (always rearing its ugly head and trying to find a way in) begins to spread, it does so like a cancer. Capitalism allowed corruption to waltz right in, giving it a wide berth. So here we are, in the twenty-first century, witnessing the beginning of the fall of the United States. Washington advocated a policy of isolationism, and that carried us for a time. Once we reached a point of seeing ourselves as the watchmen of the rest of the world, and began laying military roots all over the globe, we ceased to be a “good” nation and became the imperialists we are now. Naturally, capitalism followed, and the dawn of globalization was here. Now, we have no industry left at home, or very little. This is where capitalism leads, unless you have a populace that is enlightened, and understands that the whole is more important than the individual. If you have a populace that holds the opposite philosophy, corruption, greed, and mismanagement abound. At this stage of the game, only revolution can solve the economic crisis we now face. That may seem rash, but if you take into account the way corruption and corporate rule have snowballed over the last few decades, it can only lead you to the conclusion that we’re just beginning to see what horrors can be wrought by capitalism. The American Dream is now just that, and the damage is only beginning.
Capitalism can only work if kept in check. We are too far gone for that now, having reached a point where our own Constitution means very little anymore. Historians will look back on the twenty-first century United States as a time and place of great ignorance and failing, much the way we now view the Dark Ages. We are living in our own Dark Age. And to counter Hensman’s theory, I don’t believe the workers of the world are nearly as confused or divided as Hensman suggests. Demoralized, naturally. But that is an illness that can be cured. The time has come for a new dawning of justice, equality and fairness. We already had one Gilded Age. We do not want another, yet here we are. Capitalism is the breeze that blew it in.

]]> http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/marxism-and-the-economic-crises/#comment-30858 Michael Kenny Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:55:47 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=4358#comment-30858 I doubt if this very realistic. A more likely outcome is the strengthening of regional groupings like the EU and similar groupings elsewhere like Mercosur. They, and the big countries, will make bilateral deals and the small countries will either have to join a regional grouping or just sign up to what the "big boys" have decided. For the foreseeable future, I think, any sort of global economic arrangements are unlikely, as everybody will be busy building firewalls around their economy to prevent a repeat of this sort of ecomomic "virus". I doubt if this very realistic. A more likely outcome is the strengthening of regional groupings like the EU and similar groupings elsewhere like Mercosur. They, and the big countries, will make bilateral deals and the small countries will either have to join a regional grouping or just sign up to what the “big boys” have decided. For the foreseeable future, I think, any sort of global economic arrangements are unlikely, as everybody will be busy building firewalls around their economy to prevent a repeat of this sort of ecomomic “virus”.

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