Putting SOCIALISM back in our SOCIETIES
It is utterly pathetic when we allow perpetual war and all its privations to undermine and uproot the very essence of who we are — social beings. Maybe we are no more than adventuresome necrophiliacs.
All the great ideas have been expressed, what remains is to act on them-anon
“Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.”— Nietzsche
“A few hours’ mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures.”—Nietzsche
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.—Nietzsche
America is the unchallenged leader waging wars on the world whether they are economic , military or ideological.
In 1957 US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stated, ”get control of a countries economy and you own it. “ This has been a cornerstone of American foreign since the end of WW II and even before. Dulles was a high flying corporate lawyer acting on behalf of transnational corporations. Where he could not negotiate the peaceful take over of a foreign economies he called in the military or his brother Allan as the first director of the CIA— infamous for his covert operations. The Dulles brothers still rule US foreign policy from their graves as their heirs and successors are clones of the brothers.
Today Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims the US owns the world and all others are poachers on America’s ancestral lands, whether they be Russia or China— a rather impertinent claim when China is the world’s oldest continuous civilization for the past 2000 years, and there are others not far behind. America’s fatuous claims have more do imperialism and arrogant impertinence.
There is no shortage of America’s military wars waged against other countries in the cause of global military and economic dominance. The list is long ranging from the Korean war of the 1950’s to the Ukraine war where the country has been sacrificed as proxy for Washington’s war against Russia— where America’s ghoulish politicians gloat over how cost effective it is to use proxies to wage imperialist wars, along with terrorist acts of blowing pipelines and whole economies—including their own.
Where economic and military wars are so easily detectable and flagrantly evil, ideological wars are the veiled hand driving the driving the first two. Among the conclusions future historians will draw is that Western civilization died the death of ruinous ideologies and the slavish practice of them by die hard zombies. Where ideologies attempt to defy the edicts of History and Nature’s mastery, death is quick and conclusive.
Where we kill democracy, chaos and anarchy put down very deep roots.
Ideologies are the drivers of military and economic wars. For one ideology to thrive, others have to be eradicated. To create a purely warfare capitalist empire requires the extermination of more peace loving souls and the ideologies they speak for.
Two such ideologies are democracy and socialism. As revered American political scientist and historian Chalmers Johnson stated, “you can have democracy or you can have empire, but not both.” Painfully so, we are seeing the living proof of his prophecy— as false prophets have prevailed for too long and the damage done is horrendous remaining dangerously open ended.
Another ideology for eradication was socialism. For a warfaring purely capitalist state socialism was an added expense that had to stricken from the books. Where socialism was eradicated and societies fragmented populations were totally disenfranchised and totally malleable to serve the bidding of the war mongers.
As we see now in both the US and Canada hundreds of billions are being squandered on war while social spending is cut to the bone and infrastructure is in decay.
To this end America spent the last half of the 20th century eradicating and vilifying the socialist ideology. Socialism and communism were synonymous for the MacCarthy hearings of the1950’s both had to be totally eradicated from American system.
In 1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made one of the stupidest statements a politician could ever make: “There is no such thing as society.” Of course we are all individuals but we are also very tribal where we exist in communities/societies of shared values, common concerns and collective aspirations.
Thatcher made this claim for ideological reasons as she was the godmother of neoliberalism, where the free market economy would dominate societies and everything would monetized for the wealth of the elites and corporations. Fragmented societies where democracy is no more than window dressing and impoverished populations are the end result. Neoliberalism is fascist economics designed to steal the wealth of nations
Her claim was actually a brazen declaration of the ultimate class warfare against Western societies as the targets.
Prior to neoliberalism Western democracies were mixed, primarily capitalist, but with socialist aspects. But for the capitalists enough wasn’t enough. Along came Milton Friedman and the neoliberal juggernaut, the bloodied dollar was the new God almighty.
So many countries like Canada and Britain had strong socialist parties, but these were eradicated as were the identities and integrities of all political parties. National legislatures became cheerleaders and accomplices to the neoliberal agenda, its wars and its insatiable greed.
It is utterly pathetic we allow perpetual war and all its privations to undermine and uproot the very essence of who we are — social beings. Maybe we are no more than adventuresome necrophiliacs.
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For further reading:
America Has Just Destroyed a Great Empire
Killer capitalism...in short.