GLOBALIZATION IS GOOD? CORPORATISM VS. CAPITALISM

Ok, I have to tell you: I am sick to death of watching these anti-globalization protesters walk around with their "communist revolution" signs and their "down with capitalism" slogans. Don't they get it?

Do they really want to go back to the good ol' days when Stalin and Mao were creating mass famines with their misguided collectivist agricultural policies that killed millions upon millions of people--by far worse holocausts than the concentration camps in Nazi Germany?

The problem isn't capitalism or free markets. It is the difference between modern day Vietnam and modern day Kenya. You will see (below) just how crucial a right it is for people to own their own property and run their own businesses and keep their own earnings--without renting everything from the state and paying up accordingly. You will see that sweatshops and factories aren't always vicious dead-ends and exploitation by multinationals of impoverished peoples--indeed, some of those factories pay better than the other alternatives and are necessary first steps in any country's initial development/industrialization.

Don't these fake revolutionaries realize that the *real* enemy is global *corporatism,* the collusion of the welfare state with private business, with its ability to tax and regulate small business and local enterprise completely out of existence and give endless subsidies to monopolies and cartels that dictate how formerly sovereign nations can use their own natural resources--as well as stifle competition from third world countries that are not allowed to freely trade their native goods? Organizations like the WTO and the IMF (as John Pilger points out) are hardly in the business of promoting free markets and free trade--in fact, they manage trade on their own terms and redistribute the wealth of the market according to the rules they lay down with every misleading loan. It is just more Orwellian double-speak. In other words, they are corporations in the noble tradition of Mussolini's better business bureaucrats and central economic planning boards--in other words, we are seeing fascism at work here folks--state socialism by any other name--not free market capitalism by any stretch of the imagination.

Now, workers have made a lot of progress in forming unions and demanding better wages and better treatment--but the solution is not to dissolve our accomplishments by handing over these regulatory powers to the state (which always ends up colluding with corporate special interests). Instead, we must strive to keep this power within our own ranks as sovereign citizens and freely associated groups working for our mutual benefit--making our demands and stating our terms directly. This is another example of competition in a free market. The competition between employers and employees for a "fair" trade between labor and wages.

If you are wrong in your diagnosis, you will be wrong in your treatment. Stop being stupid fucking pawns in the globalist agenda. The international bankers would like nothing more than to herd us all into their socialist utopian collective--Wall Street funded your precious Bolsheviks!--and we'll see how much you black-clad punks enjoy your stay in the hive when you don't get to keep any of your hard-earned "honey".

And don't be stupid enough to fall for that dream of those Marxists who tell you that while the state is a necessary organizing force to ensure the dictatorship of the proletariat, it will somehow "wither away" of its own accord when people rid themselves of all their petty egoism and greed. History is clear: the state never withers away on its own. Once bureaucrats get into power, they will do everything they can to stay in power and expand their reach. The state becomes a cancer that swells to consume everything it touches.

The only way to make sure the state stays within its proper bounds is to erect a constitutional republic that not only protects minority rights against the tyranny of the majority and allows ideas and goods to circulate freely without state coercion, but also makes the individual sovereign and the state subject. In other words, the original Republic of the united states of America, before it was turned into the corporate democracy we are seeing in incremental phases today (i.e. mob-rule in the sense that the "mob" votes endless hand-outs and regulations from the treasury and the bureaucrats are happy to redistribute the wealth--as well as the red-tape--as long as they get re-elected and squash their competition with those same regulating powers and special interest money).

The united states of America are not to blame for the ills of imperialism and globalization--nor is free market capitalism. It is the corporation of the United States that is the culprit. And until you learn the difference, you will only be contributing to the problem.

BBC: GLOBALIZATION IS GOOD



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