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Global Capital and the Global elite are robbing us blind
I wasn’t really sure about what to call this, but hell am I becoming a Communist… I am grappling with an understanding of why ordinary people and the social support netowrks they have built up are being slowly eroded and how the network of global capital is taking over, I am someone who has never really been a Marxist, but I am slowly returning again and again to his and similar writings to understand we the people, as they say, are being heavily exploited…oh yes velvet shackles but shackles just the same and tightly locked…
In reading Crossing the River of Fire by Wilf Wilde
I came across the reinterpretation of a piece rom the Communist Manifesto:
try replacing the word “bourgiosie” with “global capitalism,” or the “global elite”
“[The bourgeoisie/global capitalism] has been the first to show what man’s activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former exoduses of nations and crusades.”
“…Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind.”
“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases [the bourgeoisie] global capitalism over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.”
“Global Capitalism [The bourgeoisie] has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilized nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants, satisfied by the production of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. And as in material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.”
“Global Capital [The bourgeoisie], by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the [bourgeois] mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.”
“The Global Elite [The bourgeoisie] has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilized ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.”
“The Global Elite [The bourgeoisie] keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralized the means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments, and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class interest, one frontier, and one customs tariff.
hmm seems odd given our prewsent circumstances the erosion of public services, the subsuming of cultures under one flag and one high street and the wars agaisnt Iraq, Afganistan and Lebanon, this was written over a hundred years ago. Like many of the deep thinkers, philosophers and critics of the Global Elite and Global Capitalism, Marx has been derided and we have been told that his ideas have been outgrown , his ideas outmoded, but they have not Russia Communism and Lenin and stalism have been shown the door, but this does not mean the views of marx and other philosophers was wrong…take a look around you and wake up, once you wake up to what is being done to us and to the world we have a chance to think about what we can do.
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