This strikes me as a pretty reasonable high-level take of what's going on. The end bit about the left not wanting to align with the reaction of the right is particularly perceptive, and therein lies our biggest challenge. People can't seem to get past our-side/your-side to actually build a constructive movement against this relentless infringement into our lives by GloboCap.
Humans seem to be hard-wired for tribalism, for identifying in-groups vs. out-groups. While people are typically good to in-group members, they can be violent lunatics to outsiders, which is much more socially acceptable. Rob Henderson just published an article about this. (Substack won't let me link to it.) The globalist rulers know this, and encourage the regular people to see each other and enemies so we keep fighting among ourselves instead of getting rid of them.
Perhaps RFK Jr.'s recent endorsement of Trump, which seems to imply a deal in which he would play a significant role in a second Trump administration, is a step in this direction.
Everyone understands on the show Survivor that you need to create alliances to have a chance of winning. Yet somehow when the stakes are infinitely higher you can't even consider it.
Given that AIPAC ensures no one gets to the top of US politics without supporting Israel (similar Zionist constraints apply elsewhere of course as here in the UK), I remain hopeful that once in power (if), a Trump/ Kennedy alliance might pull back from complete alignment with the Zionist agenda. In Trump’s case it would, if that happens, be because AIPAC is a foreign agent/ agency involved in election interference which he might eventually see as deeply non-MAGA. In Kennedy’s case it’s hard to imagine that he can hold onto values for too much longer which must surely be highly dissonant in a character who I believe does have genuine compassion for the afflicted. Well, you can only hope.
I’m sick of both sides. I honestly think they’re all working together and taking us on a wild ride. This shit show is certainly global. Thanks for the read. Very informative.
I hate to admit it, after thinking Trump was going to clear the globalists out of DC, but you just might be right. I was sent links to these articles from someone who kept telling me that Trump was playing us and that both sides were pawns of the city of London bankers.
Trump is a British Crown Agent
Donald Trump’s Truth Social was funded by the British Treasury and The City of London Pilgrims (not Plymouth) Society Merchant-banks
I’m reading up on pilgrim society, Kauffman and Emhoff now. I don’t think Trump is in on though. They wouldn’t be fighting him so hard. Thx for the links and info.
I don't want to believe that Trump is in on it either but the Coutts bank link to Trump's Truth Social funding source is a fact and hard to ignore. His giving pandemic response lead to the military and support for Zionist Israel added to the funding source have made me much less hopeful that things will improve for Americans with an election no matter which side wins. When the boot of tyranny is stomping on American faces it's not going to matter if it's coming from the left or right.
Indeed. All the interesting and hopeful stuff is happening in the small but growing spaces where people from across the traditional political spectrum are abandoning "sides" and meeting on basic values and goals. I try to have a lot of patience for what goes on in those spaces and whom I find in them, because almost everyone there is waking up, if gradually, and trying. It seems that the only journalists etc. I find worth paying attention to these days attract people from across the spectrum.
That's what I find so fascinating. My values and goals have remained the same for my entire grown-up life, however once I was firmly, proudly, on the left. Now it appears I'm far-right.
Me too. Odd to retain the values of the old libertarian left and now be cast as a conspiracy theorising extremist right-winger. But such are labels especially at a time when propaganda is such a central implement of propaganda.
THERE IS NO SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE IN CHINA!!!! Stop with these lies already and with your constant pushing of hate hate hate, you vile deceiver!! I was in China last month, THERE IS NO SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE IN CHINA!!!
You can also ask this of every person who actually lives in China (unlike you, deceiver, who thrives on spreading lies and hate from afar to gullible heavily-propagandized conservatives who have no clue and are quick to believe whatever lies deceivers like you tell them, without inquiring, and so are quick to hate, just as you intend...
STOP WITH THE LIES AND NONSTOP PUSHING OF HATE that you're doing to generate support from gullible propagandized americans for trump's coming attack on "evil china" (after he enters office in january)
Anyone who reads this comment (not you, yuri, you vile deceiver), please see this profound MUST-READ essay to understand how the warmongering deceivers push constant lies and emotionally maipulate you to fear and hate "those evil monstrous enemies over there who are coming to get ya" to deceive you into blindly cheering when their billionaire's empire attacks those that they propagandize you fear and hate with their constant lies.
PS. After seeing some the stupid hate-filled comments here - It always amazes me the tunnel vision of those propagandized conservatives who constantly pat themselves on tne back for being so supposedly "awake" to the plandemic but when it comes to the billionaire empire's massive war propaganda then for that they immediately get in line, stop questioning, salute the flag, repeat unquestioningly every line of propaganda the empire feeds them and are salivating at the thought of their Qanon billionaire messiah's coming attack on china.
Truly makes me wonder if you are really awake, my dear conservative friends, if you can be so dumb and hypnotized and obedient to the billionaire empire's war propaganda..
Truly makes me wonder if you actually understand how the billionaire's empire functions and what it encopasses.
I wonder if you actually oppose the empire at all, or only certain limited parts of it. Only the parts that makes you inconvenient
Truly makes me wonder if you really oppose all murder and oppression or are you actually aligned with and enjoy certain forms of murder and oppression (especially the ones that give you a hard on becasue they come with a sectarian flag or religion)
I apologize. As far as I can tell, the comment is written in the most simple plain english possible. Tell me which sentence or paragraph you do not understand and i will do my best to explain it.
Or is it that you're objecting to the use of caps to emphasize a sentence? Doing such a thing is not acceptable to you? It hurts you to the point that you feel the need to pour scorn?
Or is it that you're actually trying to put down the content of the comment but using a roundabout technical criticism to achieve that...
The communist party in china is a brutal authoritarian regime that doesnt care about anything about power. The Chinese people and the rich historical chinese culture has been victimized by the Chi coms for decades.
I'm glad you got that off your chest. I hope you feel better now. I'm sure the well-being of chinese people is very dear to your heart and that's why you made this comment.. Just like your "humanity-loving" american billionaire's empire, which constantly expresses deep concern about the well-being of chinese people and that this concern might be the reason why thry will "have to" attack china soon, becasue they are really really concerned about the well-being of chinese people and really really want to bring them "freedom and prosperity", you see..)
I'm sure you're so concerned about the well-being of chinese people that you'll be the first to try to dissuade mass-murderer trump and his anti-life deep state billionaires from launching their coming attack on china and murdering, brutalizing, maiming and traumatizing countless chinese people, becasue of your deep concern for chinese people, right? RIGHT?!?
I'm sure that you - being the great humanitarian that you are - were also the first in line to try to stop Bush Jr, Obama, Trump, Bush Sr and every scumbag american president from murdering millions upon millions in their global crusades of greed, domination and mass-murder to enrich your anti-life terrorist empire and cement the domination of american billionaire's over humanity. I'm sure you did that, because you americans are very well known for your deep care for humanity...
So don't you worry, i totally believe you that you made this comment because the well being of chinese people is very dear to your heart and is your upmost concern.. (just like your humanity-loving american empire, which is very concerned about the well-being of chineses people and really wants to bring them freedom... )
By the way, you might want to know that the state department has just published new talking points on exactly how to hate their target country most effectively and how to keep the flame of hate burning all the way up to the empire's coming attack. You don't wanna miss it. It's really cool stuff. Go there and keep yourself updated on the latest most effective propaganda slogans to keep the hate going (they also have plenty of oldies and goodies still available for you to pick up, things like "the damn commies are the source of all my troubles" and 'china hates freedom' and "'the commies are coming to get ya' and 'lets bring american freedom and prosperity to the world' and 'the only way for me to be happy in life is if we destroy china' etc etc, plenty of goodies for you there to pick up and scream out). But don't you worry my friend, you won't have to keep the intense hate going for much longer, soon our righteous savior trump and his deep state israeli billionaires will enter the white house and will give us the wonderful gift we were all waiting for of finally attacking evil china. Yay!!!
PS. And when you come up for air from sucking the pentagon's dick and obediently repeating the CIA's talking points like a well-trained robot, you might want to read this profound essay to understand how you are being played https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies
PPS. It always amazes me the tunnel vision of those heavily-propagandized conservatives who constantly pat themselves on the back for being so supposedly "awake" to the plandemic but when it comes to the billionaire empire's massive war propaganda then they immediately fall in line, obediently salute the flag, unquestioningly believe and robotically repeat every line of propaganda that the empire's narrative managers feed them, and salivate in anticipation of their billionaire messiah's coming attack on the empire's target countries.
Truly makes me wonder whether you are really awake, my hypnotized conservative friends, if you can be so dumb and blind and obedient to the billionaire empire's propaganda on some issues..
Truly makes me wonder if you actually understand how the billionaire's empire functions and what it encopasses.
Truly makes me wonder if you really oppose all murder and oppression or are you actually aligned with and enjoy certain forms of murder, domination and oppression (especially the ones that give you a hard on becasue they come with a sectarian flag or religion)
bro I'm all for people practicing their English but for the sake of us, your readers, could you pls have a heart and distill your mega comments down? an example would be "I'm more 🧠 than u and I don't like Trump" that would be ever so kind ty
Thanks for posting one of John Spritzler’s articles! Everyone should be educating themselves by visiting his website. His essays on Egalitarianism are, in fact, about an ideology in opposition to “GloboCap”, which I call Imperialism, the last and final stage of capitalism as defined by VI Lenin.
Thank you. Two things, one technical and the second more important:
One, it seems like you are attempting to claim, with your wordless reply, that there is a social credit system functioning in china. If that is indeed your claim then please show it to me. Where is it happening? Show me where is social credit system being used in china? Where is it? Show it to me. Show me its use. Where is it? I didn’t see any such thing in china and not a single person that I spoke to ever heard about it (Some people mentioned that there is a scoring system with the some banks and some payment processors, similar to the banking credit score in america, but this has nothing whatsoever to do with a social credit system). If you believe there is then please show it to me. Your links absolutely do NOT show that such a thing exists. If you think it does, then show it to me happening. Where is it? Show it to me. I am sure my friends in China will be curious to learn that such a thing exists (becasue they never heard about any such thing before). Where is it? PLEASE SHOW IT TO ME!!!
Second, and more importantly, lets say for the sake of argument that such a thing did exist (I assure you it does not, and not a single person in china have heard about such a thing, the only place where this exists is in the hate-filled conservative echo-chambers who get a hard on from imagining how they can use such a thing as an excuse to attack china, and drool thinking about trump’s coming attack), but lets go back to my question, lets just say for the sake of argument that such a thing existed (it does not, but lets just say it does, for the sake of argument) does this give the anti-life american billionaire mass-murderers and their global militarized empire (of abuse, greed, murder, resource-theft, subbjugation, torture, brutality, bullying, intimidation, control and domination), does this give the anti-life american billionaires’ global militarized empire the right to attack china and murder chinese people? Because of such a thing?
Because you know, don’t you eris, that this is precisely why the vile anti-life God-ignorant right-wing conservative billionaires are pushing this narrative and constantly teaching you to hate hate hate hate!!!!
The reason they are constatntly pushing this fake narrative is to get you to hate hate hate their target country so that you'll cheer for its attack. They need you hating their target country so that when the american billionaire ruling class moves in for the kill and gets ready for the attack on china (to destroy any challenge for their empire’s hegemony and domination over humanity and the planet, and to destory any form of living on the planet that dares to deviate from the american billionaires’ profit-over-people model) when that happens, when mass-murderer trump holds up the bible before his attack on china and tells heavily-propagandized conservatives that this is “the last battle of good vs evil”, so that at this moment, all the years and years of hate propaganda that they invested in you, teaching you to hate hate hate hate china, at that moment it will all bear fruit and you will happily cheer for their attack on “those evil people who hate freedom. They don’t value life like us and our global militarized empire that murders millions for the american billionaire ruling class, oh no, they are evil evil evil, i even heard they have this evil social credit system, didn’t you hear?! So yes, go ahead, our hero savior trump, go ahead and attack those evil people..”
You do realize, don’t you eris, that this is what this fake narrative and hate propaganda is all about. That this is why the anti-life american billionaire murderers constabtly hammer into your head that you need to despise their target country, "because they hate freedom and have this evil social credit system.."
Bloodthirsty greedy american billionaire murderers look for any excuse whatsoever to attack their target country and to hammer you with hate propaganda. That’s the exact same reason why they pushed the xinjiang propaganda nonstop, amd why they funded and armed the hong kong riots etc etc. They don’t give a sh*t about people in xingjiang, or in taiwan or in hong kong or that people in china shouldn’t have social credit, they don’t give a sh*t about any of that, it is all an excuse for these anti-life american billinaires (and their global execution force, a.k.a the american military) to attack and take down anyone who challenges their ‘profit above life’ model and their global domination over humanity and the planet.
And in order to have public support for their planned attack, they constantly hammer into the heads of heavily-propagandized conservatives the so-called reasons for why their target country is “evil” and needs to be attacked and taken over.. They play this trick on americans (especially on quick-to-hate conservatives) again and again and again, and emotionally-manipulated conservatives keep falling for it again and again and again, always cheering for the "patriotic" attacks of the anti-life american billionaires on their target countries (unless the attack is on christians, then conservatives are not cheering for it, but as long as the empire murders non christians than its fair game, after all, they’re evil, they hate freedom, they don't follow moral judeo-christian values, and they don’t value life like us and our global militarized empire that murders millions…
That is the reason, eris, for why this issue is constantly brought up by anti-life warmongering american billionaires and their conservative narrative managers. To teach you to hate hate hate, so that you’ll cheer for their coming attack on “evil china”
That’s the monstrous truth behind the life-destroying mass-murdering greedy american billionaires global empire, and that’s why americans are constantly taught to hate hate hate. That’s why they want you “concerned” about this eris, and searching the internet to find obscure articles to send me in order to “prove” how “evil” china is and that it needs to be attacked.
That’s the reason, Eris.
There is no greater evil on this planet, and nothing that moves people more away from God/Love and into tribalism and hatred, then the american global mass-murdering billionaire’s empire of domination, greed, mass-murder, abuse, control, violence, resource-theft, subjugation and life-destruction.
As I wrote to you earlier in my reply above (the first time you made this ignorant, empty, shallow, unintelligent claim) I'm sorry to disappoint you but I am a loving caring psychologically-mature person (unlike some hate-filled immature and heavily-propagandized commenters here) who is deeply concerned about how to stop the descent to corporate control and tribalistic/nationalist/religious division hatred and world war. If you'd like to, I would be willing to have a mature respectful dialogue with you, here or in person, on any thing that I wrote (if you have the capacity for such mature, intelligent and respectful interaction. Your comments here suggest that you might not posses such maturity or discernment..)
And if you'd like to have a little more insight into where I am coming from, then I invite you to look at what is shared on my page.
Yes, it's true that I'm not as unintelligent as most propagandized warmongering hate-filled conservatives have been taught to be, but to be more intelligent and loving than hate-filled war-mongering propagandized conservatives doesn't take much, my friend. No AI is required for that..
I see that the new trend now among some heavily-propagandized conservatives is not only to deeply hate whoever their warmongering mass-murdering billionaire empire tells them they must hate but also to strip the humanity off of anyone they don't like and claim that the other person is AI whenever they hear something that deviates from their war-machine's manipulative slogans that they are hammered with nonstop in their echo-chambers. Anything that makes them feel uncomfortable because it does not follow the warmongering hate-filled script they're used to, is now labelled "AI bot"
But I guess i shouldn't be surprised, stripping others of their humanity, turning another into a one-dimensional image/caricature (which is then easy to dehumanize and hate) is an established right-wing tradition throughout the ages and the common war mentality which the corporate-capitalist empire uses to make sure it has devouted conservative soldiers ready to do the killing for the billionaire's empire.
And yes, I certainly have been villified, dehumanized and severly hated and attacked by unintelligent brainwashed warmongering conservatives before, it is just that this new form of right-wing dehumanization (calling you AI whenever they don't like to hear what you are saying) is a bit new to me, but I guess I'll get used to it soon enough, once they all start adopting this attack and dehumanization line.
And again, if there is anything substantive you'd like to have a respectful mature dialogue with me about then I'm very open to it (I repeat, a respectful mature serious dialogue, of two serious kind-hearted people who are concerned about the suffering and fate of our brothers and sisters, NOT a childish conservative ego battle of "I must win the argument and crush you")
Yeah well…that’s a parody site. Or a conservative hate site. Or something because OP said it doesn’t exist.
And I can tell you that my Chinese penpals will also say it doesn’t exist.
My Chinese penpals, however, after making the slightest criticisms of the regime would disappear 6 months, a year, two years and sometimes never reappear.
Thank you, I addressed that in my reply to Eris above. The reply has two points, and I suggest to especially consider/reflect on the second point (in relation to what makes it important to you to try to "prove" this).
I would then invite you to consider what's pointed in this profound essay https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies a must read for every human on the planet, in my view, to understand exactly why the establishment created this blatant propaganda piece that you shared (with all the manipulative tactics leading you by the nose to the desired conclusion of hatred of their targeted country). These warmongering manipulative ruling class fuckers and their propaganda media play this trick on us again and again and we never seem to learn, we seem to be so eager to find confirmation for our pre-concieved hostile conclusions that we just keep falling for their war-propaganda again and again and again.. see
PS. And by the way, from CJ's readers i would have expected a little more discernment than to provide such blatant government propaganda as "proof". Surely, we wouldn't take these deceivers' word at face value when it came to vaccines, would we? But when it's time for the good old warmongering china-bashing (directed from the global murderers in the pentagon and implemented in all the empire's vassal states and its propaganda media) then it seems that for that purpose suddenly gov't is very trustworthy and true freedom fighters, who really really care about people's freedom (yes, they really honestly do)
Surely people are not that dumb and have wisen up by now to the fact that the australian government doesn't publish such propaganda pieces out of the goodness of their heart and their wish to "protect the freedom of chinese people".. surely conservatives are not this stupid, are they? Surely people can see that this is the product of the 1.4 trillion dollars dedicated in the budget to push the 'china evil' narrative to get the population on board with the billionaire empire's coming planned attack.
It always amazed me the tunnel vision of those heavily-propagandized conservatives who constantly claim to be so "awake" to the plandemic but when it comes to the billionaire empire's massive war propaganda then they immediately fall in line, salute the flag, repeat unquestioningly every line of propaganda the empire feeds them and are drool in anticipation of their billionaire messiah's coming attack on the empire's target countries.
Truly makes me wonder if you are really awake, my hypnotized conservative friends, if you can be so dumb and blind and obedient to the billionaire empire's propaganda on some issues..
Truly makes me wonder if you actually understand how the billionaire's empire functions and what it encopasses.
I wonder if you actually oppose the empire at all, or only certain limited parts of it. Only the parts that makes you inconvenient
Truly makes me wonder if you really oppose all murder and oppression or are you actually aligned with and enjoy certain forms of murder and oppression (especially the ones that give you a hard on becasue they come with a sectarian flag or religion)
Again, i respectfully invite to seriously consider the second point in my reply to Eris above, as well as the profoundly important must-read essay linked above (here it is again https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies )
I obviously don't know for certain why certain conditioned thoughts and feelings are generated in you, but my tentative guess is that you might be thinking this possibly because if the pre-established ideological filters on the glasses that were put on your eyes, the glasses through which you might be reading and interpreting everything (filters which are created for you by the God-ignorant mass-murdering global american billionaires' militarized empire, to make sure americans are as hateful as possible towards the billionaires' target country, so that you'll cheer when the anti-life Godless american billionaire murderers actually attack their target country).
If so, then from my experience, it's very likely that these ideological filters distort and don't allow you to hear what another is actually saying (make your heart corrupted and deaf), which in turn leads to such questions. But that's just my tentative guess. I think that it is for you really to answer this question and truly learn and understand the filters through which you view things and which distort and corrupt your heart
Not only did i answer his question fully and directly but i also told him of another response where i addressed this at even greater length PLUS i went out of the way to cover all angles and I gave him a link to a profound essay that shows him EXACTLY how he is being played (shows exactly who ensures that he's emotionally-inflamed about this so that he'll cheer for the american murderers' coming attack).
If this feels right for you then I respectfully recommend also for you to read both the essay that i gave him as well as my response to eris above (the response i told him about), specifically the second point in my reply to eris, and to truly consider and reflect on what i point out there, if you have such maturity and capacity for consideration and reflection (though i unfortunately have to doubt if such capacity is present becasue in my experience, most heavily-propagandized american conservatives are so deeply blinded and invested in the addictive nice feeling that is generated in the body through repeating the hate hate hate HATE warmongering slogans that the anti-life american empire's narrative managers hammer into conservative's head nonstop 24/7, so deeply addicted to that feeling in tne body generated by hostility and hate that they are simply beyond reach, it is like interacting with a brick wall whose only interest is not in life but in destroying and crushing you to "win" agaimst those who the empire tells you nonstop are evil.
That is why, quite honestly, i have little hope for true mature sane pro-life interaction with deeply hateful and heavily propagandized american conservatives, so great and intense is the war propaganda and the billionaire empire's militarized brainwashing..
But anyway, if you have this capacity then please do read the second point in my reply to eris, and the profound essay linked above, and please do try to reflect on that before any automatic knee-jerk learnt hostile reaction. I am not against you
I’ve been a middle of the road conservative my entire life. I just want to be left alone. I knew there was some…thing…idea…whatever it was for many years, but until this moment I couldn’t put my finger on it. I knew the fight was uphill, or even straight up the cliff. I’ve felt something was trying to take control of my thinking. I won’t stop resisting, but I finally know what IT is. Thank you, sir. And I see how this concept can infuriate folks from both sides of the ideological spectrum.
How did we create the monster? Wasn't it by being "middle of the road conservatives that wanted to be left alone, have a family, create some wealth and have a good life?' I was the same. We were too complacent and took everything for granted and we were too lazy and couldn't be bothered to bother about "the canaries in the coalmine" of the 80ties and 90ties who knew exactly what was going on and yelled about at the top of their lungs but no avail. Crazy radicals, I thought. Don't they have anything better to do?
We pay now for falling asleep. We didn't bother watching the greedy thieves surrounding us. Now, we pay and rightly so.
Hold on. I am going to die soon. It is actually our children that pay and who have to sort out our shit. I let them down. I thought security and prosperity were all that mattered. I thought history was frozen in time and the good years would go on indefinitely. This is all on us - the baby boomers. Like it or not.
Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.
I'm one of those who mostly disagrees with you about the alleged evils of "capitalism" though I'm not the type to "cancel" you just for being wrong about this issue. My biggest problem with your rants against capitalism is that I'm left having zero idea what you propose as the alternative.
For my part, I don't describe myself as "pro-capitalism", but rather "pro-free market." I don't like the word "capitalism", because it connotes "big", whereas I believe in individual rights, including property rights -- *in principle*, which means it applies to both big and small. Everyone deserves to have their rights respected no matter the scale. So where I sort of agree with you is that I think the term "capitalism" implies/causes a bias in favor of the large (aka "corporatism"), and I also agree with you that this is getting more and more out of control over time.
The root of this mayhem is that our society has never precisely defined what should and should not be considered "property." This is very analogous to when slavery was allowed -- the root of the problem then was a misdefinition of property such that it included people as ownable, the problem was not with "capitalism" per se. And the problem now is not due to having very large enterprises or even having them globally, but rather with myths about what should and should not be considered ownable. To cite myself on examples:
Nobody has ever explained how patents are morally defensible:
It is honestly baffling to me how people come to form these views. Can you cite an example of me "ranting" about or calling capitalism "evil"? I just spent several paragraphs in this very column explaining how capitalism liberated us from despotism and made possible most of the freedoms we enjoy today. Is it just seeing the word itself that is so triggering?
Rather than start all over and reiterate what Shayne was saying, I would like an opportunity to clarify. It’s not that the word Capitalism is so triggering it’s that capitalism is an economic concept stemming from a very basic simple concept called supply and demand. It has long since been recognized that without a structure of laws and regulations it can become corrupt by the people who manipulate supply and demand. When corruption supersedes and renders laws and regulations either ineffective or weaponized, Capitalism loses its boundaries of simple supply and demand and becomes a political and cultural Leviathan, which is what it has grown to become. Governments have figured out how to use laws and regulations to grow more powerful and also have figured out the most effective tool for maintaining power is Totalitarianism. They use Marxist, Maoist, Hitlerian tools at a very highly engineered level to maintain Totalitarian control. It’s the lock on power that has become the Leviathan using any means necessary to maintain its control. There are momentums against this, not perfect, that are attempting to beat back the beast. We need something to help us push back on this insanity that is literally destroying us. This is where you fail humanity. You distrust everyone and everything, many religious organizations distrust everyone and everything, we can’t let the idea of the perfect destroy the momentum for good enough. Rejecting everything in play only allows the beast to grow more fearsome and powerful. I don’t think anyone knows any more what the final “vision” is supposed to be, money, power and control. I refer to it as Post Feudalism using Marxist Communist tools and propaganda Psyops to shape the responses, including nanotechnology, threats of pandemics and climate engineering out of desperation to maintain control. We have to put aside our ideological differences to get behind the strongest momentum that is currently trying to push back on all this and stop distrusting everyone and everything, especially each other. Each other is not the enemy.
Once upon a time (shortly before the Globocap timeframe the author describes) the first flush of neoliberal economists & politicians decried monopolies - would actually legislate against them - & would be aghast at the idea of public-private partnerships. I think those who defend "capitalism" against attack probably yearn for those times as much as we (ex-)lefties who have come to join you in opposition to Globocap. But there appears to be no going back. Paul Lancefield described this well in the second of his 3-part essay series here https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/25/fascism-2-0-feudalism-2-0/
"The important point to understand is that as well as spreading the risk, the number of areas in which... [Globocap has] an interest is multiplied and, just as importantly, the number of globalist billionaires with whom [it] share[s] an interest is also increased. The result is a highly diversified, ultra powerful financial unit (a cabal if you like) who hold in common to a massive degree, interest in lobbying for broadly the same policies and ensuring they are applied in the broadly the same policy-driven markets."
There is a new, clear, solution with a plan to implement it for preventing global elite who own all the major global companies from continuing to control the major governments around the world. If you are interested, it is described in the book End Politics Now (EndPoliticsNow.com ).
If you are honestly baffled you'd be served by a small dose of humility since at least part of the problem lies with your writing not with my reading. Also, you're the one who's apparently triggered by my alleged misreading, I'm not "triggered."
One of the problems with your writing: if you're saying the free market is good in that paragraph, then in the very next paragraph you confuse the issue by saying "it has no off switch." Why would something good need an off switch? I for one don't want my property rights turned "off". Now, surely you don't mean precisely that but I can't tell what it is you do mean.
"This is how capitalism (or democracy if you’re squeamish) freed us from a despotic ‘reality’ in which values emanated from the aristocracies, kings, priests, the Church, etc. Basically, it transferred the emanation and enforcement of values from despotic structures to the marketplace, where everything is essentially a commodity.
So, hurrah … capitalism freed us from despotism! I’m grateful. I’m not a big fan of despotism. The problem is, it’s just a machine. And it has no off-switch. And now it dominates the entire planet unopposed or restricted in any meaningful way. So it is doing what it is designed to do, stripping our societies of their [vestigial] despotic values, rendering everything and everyone a commodity, establishing and enforcing ideological uniformity, neutralizing pockets of internal resistance."
It doesn't say anything about turning your right to private property off. As I said, I am going to try to engage with people's criticism, but I need people to do a little work to understand and address what I actually wrote.
"It doesn't say anything about turning your right to private property off."
Note that you haven't bothered to specify precisely what it is you do what to turn off.
You're the one who needs to do more work here. If you're going to complain at me for misreading then you should at least put in the effort to not misread me, otherwise it looks like your stated desire to understand your critics is fake.
For me, "capitalism" at least partly refers to "property rights" (a large business is just the property rights of the individual owners of it), ergo when you say "it has no off switch", you are formally arguing that you should be able to turn off my property rights under some conditions.
The answer is literally in the sentences immediately following the sentence you are citing ... "And now it dominates the entire planet unopposed or restricted in any meaningful way. So it is doing what it is designed to do, stripping our societies of their [vestigial] despotic values, rendering everything and everyone a commodity, establishing and enforcing ideological uniformity, neutralizing pockets of internal resistance."
I'm going to leave you to your interpretation and engage with other readers. Honestly, no offense intended, but I can't walk through the whole piece like this, line by line.
dear Mr CJ, Shayne Wissler is kinda right. you're being somewhat irresponsible as a public writer to make statements but not further delve into what you propose be done in lieu of no off switch.
i mean, you CAN just comment, be an observer, but then you're making YOURSELF kinda irrelevant because you're just saying BAD BAD BAD! and that does get... tired. especially now. we ALL KNOW this sucks but...what? where to go? inside or outside?
maybe some of us are just really stupid and beneath you, but you get sooo much right so much spot on, you're not worth dismissing or turning away because you have not only deep insight but also EXPERIENCE we don't yet have.
you sound defeated and disgusted by us. by the flaccid army you think we are. i feel your disgust and am afraid to write or ask but i ask because you still matter, are relevant, more than ever in fact.
but it seems you're stuck in pissed off "you all suck" mode. it's gotta be hella boring there, Brother.
we're LISTENING... READING... so what and where next???
maybe we're just useless dumb fuck losers, but what if we're NOT? what if you're stuck? you sound stuck and pissed off, which you have a right to be, no argument there.
i hate people but also love us with a bare single thread left that i'm trying to add to every day.
your struggling fan trying not to slit my wrists reading your recent columns,
I think my question was clear, simple, and that you clearly did not answer it. I still don't know what it is that you wish to "turn off." Quoting your writing back at me instead of providing a clear definition of what you're referring to combined with your flouncing over such a simple question speaks volumes.
Capitalism isn't just a system, it is a process. So it started nasty, with poor, oppressed workers in dark satanic mills in e.g. Lancashire, milling cotton 'bought' by the Empire from India and elsewhere. Then it had a fuzzy, cuddly (-ish) middle stage where ordinary people could have cars and washing machines and computers. Now it's at the penultimate stage where it's selling you washing machines that can talk to your computer, computers (of various sizes, including the one you hold in your hand, which is your mobile prison warden) that spy on you on behalf of Globo-Cap, while Globo-Cap will soon be switching off your (rented) washing machine when the algorithm finds out you've been reading naughty, anti-Empire Substack pieces.
And the final stage of Capitalism is the one where it collapses itself and transmogrifies into 'communitarianism', which is like communism and fascism combined, but with a lot of virtue signalling and even richer elites than even the old communism could create.
And then they kill you - or at least they continue to kill you but faster than they used to.
" It was challenged by two opposing ideologies, fascism and communism. They fought it out. Long story short, capitalism won."
Even that was (bloody) theatre put on by early-stage Globo-Cap. The Bolsheviks were created and supported by the British deep state (Tavistock, Rhodes-Milner group ...) and Wall St. And so were the Nazis. And then they were set on each other, making lots of money for the usual suspects. See the seminal 'Wall Street Trilogy' by Professor Anthony Sutton, books on the Tavistock Insitute by both Dr John Coleman and Daniel Estulin, and very recently, this one by David Hughes, which has a cover with one of those er ... swastikas on it (but no mask so maybe it would be acceptable to CJ's tormenters:
I'm wondering what is the value of the killing. Sure, it looks as if the killers are accumulating things and other resources, but (1) to what end? (to a world empty of what people provide?), and (2) even where you "win" that gruesome contest, when do the killing cycles stop? (when the "bums" and "idiots" of the lower 90% are gone? but that just resets the scale...)
That was beautifully written- simplistic and verifiable, in that all parts of the capitalistic process have never stopped, are just in various stages depending on where in the world you live and your caste within that location, so relatable because it can be actually seen. Not on a screen or in some book or article that can be critiqued an interpreted in multiple ways.
Genius.
Do you write at length or are you more of a influencer poker, you know, keep em' honest type?
I know this is way off, but for what it is worth: "I believe that the day the first human felt entitled to own property, resources and people, humanity entered a very dark period." That's when greed and power were born - the single cause of all our miseries. Only a grassroots spiritual awakening and a rise in awareness might stop the endgame of greed and power, but this is unlikely. The endgame of greed and power will destroy almost all of humanity. Everything points towards it. Someone lamented that CJ doesn't offer solutions. Well, there aren't any because it got systematic. The system is on autopilot to self-destruction. I agree; there is no off-switch on a societal level. There is an off switch on an individual spiritual level though.
These are good observations that don't get discussed much.
But I'm not sure how you can be pro free market and be opposed to patents. If a person invents something or develops a useful process, it is his, even if it is intangible. Just as we own our own writing and no one can claim it or use it without our permission, we own our ideas and inventions. That presumes that they are unique and exist only as a result of some individual or, yes, corporate effort.
Pragmatically speaking, why would anyone go to the time and expense of developing something, if they can't claim ownership of it. Totalitarian countries are not known for innovation, because there is nothing there to encourage or support it.
Patents made sense when research was self funded and on the fringes. But these days patents are economic vehicles to leverage, instead of an incentive to come up with something new.
Most research is publicly funded but corporations get the patents a lot of times.
Even if you're let's say a programmer for Google and you invent something on your off time, Google can take your patent.
So maybe patents are a problem when only the wealthy corporations have the power to pay for the research.... Like today.
Oh and in big pharma, patents are exactly the way they get rid of past drugs that have less issues in favor of the newer tech drugs that have more side effects...
I'd say yes, and no. A corporation has a right to a patent on a product that it has paid its employees to produce. These days, it can cost millions, even billions, to develop a product. To blame corporations for protecting their rights in that regard are simplistic, to say the least. Employees who develop products typically sign an agreement that their work belongs to the corporation because, after all, they are being paid by the corporation to do just that. Nobody holds a gun to the employee's head when they sign that agreement.
But these days tax dollars do go into some of the R&D that develops products. That should be taken into account. It is up to our government officials to make sure that the taxpayers benefit from government funding of private projects. That can include patent rights. Many universities have research programs that lead to patents. Sometimes, the individual researcher is allowed to claim that patent, yet they put in none of their own money, and were paid to do the research. Something's wrong with that.
Well said. Shayne is so wrong. He apparently has a reason to feel the way he does, which we'd understand if he'd let us know what it is. The excuses he gave were emotional, not productive. Patents actually reflect that we own what we produce and that there are laws that prevent theft. I have only one problem and that's with Congress for allowing China to buy up American patents in order to form monopolies, but mostly for the power the patents give them over our resources.
You should read my article and tell me at what particular step of my argument I've gone wrong, otherwise all I can say is that my position is stated there.
I think patents are very much antagonistic to free market principles and very akin to slavery, and part of the reason why there's a constant attack on all property rights. I.e. because the "capitalists" have in fact taken too much, the other side is that much more energetic about stealing what isn't theirs.
If I invent a widget, the reason that widget exists in the world is because I invented it. It isn't a natural thing that comes from nature. It came from my mind. If I can't patent it, why should I bother inventing it? You'd best think about all that exists because we have patents. The internet is an invention. It didn't just happen. Who would spend the billions that it takes to develop all the intricate parts of the system, if they could not recoup their investment and make money at it? They wouldn't. And we wouldn't have the internet that we have, the energy systems that we have, or very much of all that we do have.
And patents aren't forever. I don't know all the law, but I think that there is a fourteen year window. After that, the patent lapses.
I think we have the internet we have because it is, at its origin, a military development, and they had in mind exactly what they're doing with it now, which is enslaving us. They didn't count on us using it so imaginatively for contacting and 'teaching' each other, which is why countries around the world, but particularly Five Eyes and the EU, are doing their desperate best to shut down the bits that benefit us rather than them.
If your sole motivation to invent something is to make money, then the lack of patents would discourage you. Are you representative of the majority of humanity?
I think you have a fair point here with respect to patents being a large part of the problem. Once the clever corporations and patent attorneys run out of new products and markets to conquer, they turn to nature to monetize. Not just the nature around us but ourselves as part of nature. We humans are their next great commodity. And they have lots of plans for us.
I wondered if you were referring to certain individuals recently claiming to own the patent on natural existing phenomena, rather than patents on individual personal creations?
Capital is a word to describe a large sum of money, enough to build a factory, that kind of thing. Capitalism therefore describes the actions of those with Capital. To critique the actions of capitalists does not require an alternative monetary/political system to be described , nor does the lack of an alternative negate the critique.
In spite of your argument about what capitalism means, that is not in fact what everyone means by it. "Does not require" depends on your intent. If your intent is to be clearly understood then yes it does require it, since a critique is understood relative to some standard, if that standard is vague then so is the critique.
Rockefeller, back in the 19th century, scoffed at the inefficient idea of competition, free markets, His philosophy and practice was what he called cooperation. The free market permitted him, and his peers, the freedom to absorb all his competition, and his example has been followed since then in all business, including banking, and now government. Thus, we have arrived at ultimate centralization with the appearance of capitalism.
Yes, it's a common pattern that businesses often succeed because of the free market and then when they get sufficient power they then stamp out the free market for everyone else. E.g. social media companies who go before Congress and support legislation that would make it impossible for competitors to emerge.
I realize this is a difficult concept to grasp. Basically, an ideology is only an ideology in relation to other contrasting ideologies (i.e., Christianity/Islam, Capitalism/Communism, etc). When you are the only game in town (i.e., a globally hegemonic ideological power system), there are no more contrasting ideologies. There are only deviations from "the norm." Your ideology becomes "reality." In so doing, it disappears as ideology. It becomes "just the way things are."
The thing is "capitalism" is and was always a pejorative socialist/Marxist term to discredit the right of individuals to own productive assets.
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with individuals owning stuff and if someone thinks there is, they are the dangerous ideologue, not the individual who owns something.
To the the extent we are facing problems currently (and of course we are, we always have, there is no utopia) it's not caused by individuals having property rights.
It's caused by governments using the monopoly on violence to force people to do stuff against their will, such as take dangerous experimental medical treatments. Or governments spending money on designing superviruses. Or governments stealing from the productive majority through inflationary monetary policy that benefits a handful of cronies and widens the wealth divide by pushing up the prices of scarce assets.
All these problems are anti market, they are statist, interventionism problems. Not individuals having rights problems.
Frankly the word capitalism simply needs retiring. It's not useful now and it never was. It's a dirty word for an activity that is not problematic. Like calling someone a carbonist for breathing , for example.
"I don't describe myself as 'pro-capitalism', but rather 'pro-free market.'"
OK for me, as long as by "free market" you acknowledge that the existence of this kind of market can be steady-state only under *some kind* of controlling structure and rules. Usually, well... established and maintained by a sovereign government. (Also, maybe now the headless GloboCap PacMan eating the world, but if/when we're lucky, that of the equally headless Bitcoin.) I've noticed too many free marketers are loathe to be conscious of this.
The "capitalism we have" has one and only one, "value" if you will, and that is "profit." If an object or undertaking is "profitable" it is of "value" in the "capitalism we have." If money "can be made" it "will be made." So if money can be made killing people with "safe & effective vaccines" - capitalism will not stand in the way of that money making proposition. If money can be made filling pre-adolescents with toxic drugs to stop their puberty, or if money can be made surgically removing healthy body parts from those adolescents - "the capitalism we have" - will see to it that money is made in those endeavors. Even - "science" and "reason" and "logic" - are no match for "profit" in - "the capitalism we have." We humans are the only ones that can bring "values" to play in any ideological system - but we are helpless to insert our values into the "capitalism we have" - because "our values" do not end with "profit" - so our human and humane values are simply irrelevant in - "the capitalism we have." This doesn't seem like rocket science.
"Find yourself first, and endless blessings will follow. Nothing profits the world as much as the abandoning of profits. A man who no longer thinks in terms of loss and gain is the truly non-violent man, for he is beyond all conflict." Nisargadatta Maharaj
I have been saying exactly this since grad school. How do we inform the capitalist system with human values. My friends used to make fun of me for blaming everything on capitalism. It was in the context of hanging out with people who thought communism was a better alternative, and of course that didn't work out well, but it allowed me the ability to see the water I was swimming in. Thank you, CJ, for also seeing it and stating it so well, again and again and again.
Don’t underestimate the role the GloboCap (i.e. imperialists) rulers and their minions play in coercing and forcing all the rest of us bend to their will. It may be the “capitalism” we have but without humans dedicated to controlling all of us with the help of state power, we would undoubtedly be seeing many attempts at alternatives. One example would be the society put in place during the anarchist movement in Spain in 1936-39: https://www.pdrboston.org/industrial-production-egalitarian-way
CJ, you've managed in your own inimitable style to be both accurate and confusing at the same time. Thank you. I'm now aligned with both the classical liberal left and the populist right in our shared defence against globocap, or whatever the hell it is you're trying to describe.
We are all trying to make sense of how our world really operates after the " shock and awe" of Covid, and this take fits beautifully. It helps put coherence to what otherwise appears nonsensical. How could country after country enact policies that were nonsensical but repeated everywhere, leader after leader, one incoherent policy after another. In fact they were not incoherent. Not if they were all geared to creating maximally advantageous circumstances for current and future profits for trans national corporations. In that respect, people were responding to the incentives, by an incentive structure had built over decades, combined with extensive planning for a pandemic scenario. The rest of us were just manipulated or coerced by our governments monopoly on the legalized use of force. Very handy for corporations. In essence every decision was designed around marketing and sales, In addition to that vast expansion of the money supply which was also flowed upward entirely into the coffers of global corporations. The Covid affair could largely have been a business strategy in action.
"Fascism and Communism were the final ideological adversaries it faced, both being attempts to halt and reverse the globalization of capitalism. They failed."
Fascism is not an ideological enemy to capitalism. Much of US Big Business supported the Nazis: Ford, IBM, Rockefeller's Standard Oil and JP Morgan's Chase Bank, Dupont, General Motors and Wall Street. Corporate law firm Sullivan and Cromwell (the Dulles bros) represented German companies even well into the war. Even before the war ended the OSS/CIA's Operation Paper clip rescued many, many Nazi's war criminals to safety giving them well paying jobs in the US and elsewhere and indeed populating much of the post war government of West Germany. Nazism not only is NOT an ideological enemy of capitalism it is an alternative to liberal democracy when authoritarianism can deliver higher profits. Fascism is simply a form that capitalism can take. (Incidentally, Nazism was not "nationalist" either, they were imperialists. Their goal was to make the USSR a giant colony as it had massive natural and labor resources which Germany lacked, compared to other imperial nations.) In fact CJ, you should know this as it is a big part of David A. Hughes' new book "Wall Street, the Nazis and the Crimes of the Deep State" for which you provided a blurb for the back cover. Did you not read it or do you disagree with him on this?
Fascism/Nazism and Communism were both reactionary attempts to halt/reverse the values-decoding machine that is the ideological engine of capitalism, in that they both attempted to reimpose social structures whose values were determined by ideology/will, rather than by the vicissitudes of the market. All such structures (i.e., values) are impediments to the free flows of capital and the commodification of everything and everyone. And this is why borders, national sovereignty, biological differences, religions, bigotry, etc., must be dissolved.
Now I'm confused. The form of Capitalism you are talking about avoids the vicissitudes of the market. The government can swoop in and limit competition, bail out failing businesses, and pass along the risks to the taxpayers while the businesses keep the rewards. That's why we say "crony capitalism." It ain't exactly a free market. I agree that this global "capitalism" reduces everything to a profit motive, but once the government can manipulate supply and demand, it's barely recognizable as capitalism. It's more like techno-feudalism.
Successful capitalists themselves subvert the market without the help of the government. They simply *voluntarily* collude with each other in ways that screw consumers and corner the market. Mergers and acquisitions is the most obvious example - a monopolistic phenomenon that exploded when Reagan "unleashed the market."
So, do you disagree with David Hughes? Does the historic support of fascism by the titans of US capitalism suggest that they didn't mind much the Nazis' "reactionary attempts"?
GloboCap doesn't care what kind of oppressive system you want to run in your own territory, as long as you're playing ball with GloboCap. See, e.g., Saudi Arabia, China, etc.
First you didn't answer my question about David Hughes. Second, I have been studying this stuff for over 40 years. Read more books than I can remember. There was a concerted propaganda effort made by US propagandists to equate fascism and communism as different flavors of the same thing. Why? Because it was the communists that did the heavy lifting when it came defeating Nazism and the US supported the Nazis and not the communists. It was a bad look. So, easy solution: re-write history.
An author blurbing a book does not mean he agrees with everything in it. It means he recommends people read it, and make up their own minds. What is it, exactly, that you want me to agree with?
"Fascism is not an ideological enemy to capitalism."
And then at the end of the same comment I say: "In fact CJ, you should know this as it is a big part of David A. Hughes' new book "Wall Street, the Nazis and the Crimes of the Deep State" for which you provided a blurb for the back cover. Did you not read it or do you disagree with him on this?"
Hughes as two chapters on this, plus this theme goes throughout the book. He clearly demonstrates the continuity with historic fascism and what's happening today. Based on your previous commentary, it appears that you disagree with him.
The fact that GloboCap has a third of the world's nations under economic sanctions might speak against that (assuming one considers Venezuela or Russia, say, to be oppressive).
that's too simplistic. it's time for understanding clarity and bridging ideas communicating blowing minds opening hearts blah blah blah. upending tables and storming out is for movie endings and cops coming to arrest you now.
RE: Capitalism only works if the law is applied equally.
Laws are made to serve the interests of the biggest capitalists. When did the version of capitalism that you describe ever exist? The world's first joint stock company was the British East India Company chartered by the state to rape India. They made up their own laws...
I don’t understand all the laws and taxes for sure. But I think I understand system seems unfair. Do the Bezo’s and Musks really break the laws? I understand they have a net worth. Can they leverage their assets/net worth and get loans from the bankers at a low rate and avoid personal income taxes since it’s a loan? Also, why should the government go after them for more taxes if their businesses employ thousands of people who do pay personal income taxes ? Really, I don’t understand because I don’t. Would people not chasing the low prices at Walmart help? I don’t know many people in my circle who like to pay more for something, they basically price shop. Corporations are machines that require only to make profits and yes watching the margins is part of it.
It’s greed. The corporations are doing what corporations are suppose to do. What can the individual do today? I don’t the think the answer is political, perhaps it’s a spiritual problem but that makes me weird. It’s a puzzle. I think we just need to get out of the ideological box we camp in. The machine loves how divided we are.
The law is written by billionaires for billionaires so they do not need to break the law. They simply use the corrupted laws to rob blind the poor and destroy all the small businesses. They are very good at it.
Billionaires pay no tax because they know it is voluntary. There is a way for everyone not to pay as well because paying tax has now become a criminal offence.
Yes, I think President Trump mentioned something similar to that in 2016. I often say that the elites/ruling class/politicians/CEO’s/Bankers/Celebrities attend the same weddings. It really doesn’t matter what political party or if they lean left or right or liberal conservative. Truly, nothing is new under the Sun. So many of us are comfort addicts. God forbid if the AC goes down or the Internet is too slow or worse doesn’t work at all. Perhaps modernity is the problem. It’s an interesting time to be alive. Thanks for the links.
I sympathise with the retelling fatigue but I think getting it into a nutshell like this was worth it. I thought to argue that I'm on the right and I agree that our current capitalism is the problem and then I remembered that I'm not actually on the right, that's just what they call me. I think both sides are terrified that if you took away global capitalism no one would be in charge. They really don't see that no one is in charge of what they think they are anyway. Like here in Australia, people still think our food and drug regulator has a lab and tests things. We would all be a lot better off if everyone stopped lying that everything isn't 'buyer beware', well, maybe not a few corrupt politicians.
"I don’t really care what they call it (global capitalism), except when they call it ‘communism,’ which just makes them sounds extremely silly."
But Global Capitalism is communism. Communism and capitalism were never the antithesis of each other. That's a mistake that too many people make. It is communism and free markets that are the antithesis of each other.
Marx, and communists generally, didn't want to destroy capitalism, they just wanted to own it. Their ideal was factories and all production controlled by the central government. For all intents and purposes, that is what Global Capitalism is.
Yeah, they have one thing in common—— control, which is central to communism. Who the owners of the “means of production” are makes no difference. They are held in common for one purpose, control.
Given the very close ties between these corporations and government, yes, they are communist. Compare the cozy relationships between these entities and similar entities in China and Russia, and I think you'd find more similarities than differences.
First, history lesson: The USSR stopped existing in 1989. Russia is not communist. (I know the MSM seems to have forgotten that...) China is some kind of hybrid system.
Second: By your definition "close ties between government and corporations" (speaking of the US alone) has existed at least since WWII in form of the Military Industrial Complex - at least. So, was/is that communism? (It is well documented now that Covid was a military operation.)
I guess you are unaware of the famous definition Mussolini gave: "fascism is simply when you can't slip a cigarette paper between the interests of business and the state."
Thanks for putting all of this in one place, CJ. I absolutely agree with this model that you have laid out to explain our current reality. It is what it is, regardless of what we want to label it.
How do the main perpetrators (controllers) of Global Capitalism fit into this model? This system was created and engineered by humans and is continuing to be operated from a top down level to achieve the end goal of having a Chinese-like totalitarian society where we are all tracked and controlled like farm animals on the planetary farm known as Earth.
The only way out of this system is to recognize it for what it is, agree on the fact that this is an us versus them situation (slaves versus rulers), and build something parallel and/or completely outside of this anti-human, soul wrenching, dream killing meat grinder.
Thank you for all that you do and for continuing to fight for the human spirit. You are truly an inspiration!
In a sense, you have described Orthodox Christianity. There is a very interesting book exploring such a theme, from the early Soviet era, (one of the few successes of ProletCult) called 'Kotlovan' (Eng. The Foundation Pit) by Andrei Platonov.
This strikes me as a pretty reasonable high-level take of what's going on. The end bit about the left not wanting to align with the reaction of the right is particularly perceptive, and therein lies our biggest challenge. People can't seem to get past our-side/your-side to actually build a constructive movement against this relentless infringement into our lives by GloboCap.
Humans seem to be hard-wired for tribalism, for identifying in-groups vs. out-groups. While people are typically good to in-group members, they can be violent lunatics to outsiders, which is much more socially acceptable. Rob Henderson just published an article about this. (Substack won't let me link to it.) The globalist rulers know this, and encourage the regular people to see each other and enemies so we keep fighting among ourselves instead of getting rid of them.
The age-old "divide and conquer."
Divide and conquer works.
Perhaps RFK Jr.'s recent endorsement of Trump, which seems to imply a deal in which he would play a significant role in a second Trump administration, is a step in this direction.
Everyone understands on the show Survivor that you need to create alliances to have a chance of winning. Yet somehow when the stakes are infinitely higher you can't even consider it.
It might be a tiny step in the right direction but Trump and Kennedy are both Zionist Patsys and therefore it is also a step in the wrong direction.
Given that AIPAC ensures no one gets to the top of US politics without supporting Israel (similar Zionist constraints apply elsewhere of course as here in the UK), I remain hopeful that once in power (if), a Trump/ Kennedy alliance might pull back from complete alignment with the Zionist agenda. In Trump’s case it would, if that happens, be because AIPAC is a foreign agent/ agency involved in election interference which he might eventually see as deeply non-MAGA. In Kennedy’s case it’s hard to imagine that he can hold onto values for too much longer which must surely be highly dissonant in a character who I believe does have genuine compassion for the afflicted. Well, you can only hope.
I’m sick of both sides. I honestly think they’re all working together and taking us on a wild ride. This shit show is certainly global. Thanks for the read. Very informative.
I hate to admit it, after thinking Trump was going to clear the globalists out of DC, but you just might be right. I was sent links to these articles from someone who kept telling me that Trump was playing us and that both sides were pawns of the city of London bankers.
Trump is a British Crown Agent
Donald Trump’s Truth Social was funded by the British Treasury and The City of London Pilgrims (not Plymouth) Society Merchant-banks
Like a Russian nested doll on steroids, 17-layers deep, Donald Trump’s Truth Social was funded by the British Treasury via Coutts Bank— the bank of the British monarchy and Pilgrims Society, established by pagan Babylonian Radknight merchant-bankers in 1692 (see Radknight refs. In Domesday Book, 1086): https://aim4truth.org/2024/04/04/trump-is-a-british-crown-agent/?subscribe=success#subscribe-blog-blog_subscription-5
Pilgrims Society Doug Emhoff and Ted Kauffman Run the Biden White House
We believe the oligarchy actually running the White House is the British Pilgrims Society in the City of London: https://aim4truth.org/2024/07/02/pilgrims-society-doug-emhoff-and-ted-kauffman-run-the-biden-white-house/
I’m reading up on pilgrim society, Kauffman and Emhoff now. I don’t think Trump is in on though. They wouldn’t be fighting him so hard. Thx for the links and info.
I don't want to believe that Trump is in on it either but the Coutts bank link to Trump's Truth Social funding source is a fact and hard to ignore. His giving pandemic response lead to the military and support for Zionist Israel added to the funding source have made me much less hopeful that things will improve for Americans with an election no matter which side wins. When the boot of tyranny is stomping on American faces it's not going to matter if it's coming from the left or right.
I’m not finding credibility with the youtube videos, though. They seem out there. But thx for sharing.
Indeed. All the interesting and hopeful stuff is happening in the small but growing spaces where people from across the traditional political spectrum are abandoning "sides" and meeting on basic values and goals. I try to have a lot of patience for what goes on in those spaces and whom I find in them, because almost everyone there is waking up, if gradually, and trying. It seems that the only journalists etc. I find worth paying attention to these days attract people from across the spectrum.
That's what I find so fascinating. My values and goals have remained the same for my entire grown-up life, however once I was firmly, proudly, on the left. Now it appears I'm far-right.
Same here! I am however vastly more awake than I was 20 years ago. As for many others, COVID forced another leap.
Me too. Odd to retain the values of the old libertarian left and now be cast as a conspiracy theorising extremist right-winger. But such are labels especially at a time when propaganda is such a central implement of propaganda.
It's tough. The Left would have to admit they have f^cked up royally. :-)
Not easy to admit you unwittingly joined the dark side! Haha.
ESG is a CCP style social credit score. The new normal global left corporations use it to impose tyranny too down. Calculate your score here: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-raise-your-esg-score
Damn, a zero, see you in the gulag.
LOL!
THERE IS NO SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE IN CHINA!!!! Stop with these lies already and with your constant pushing of hate hate hate, you vile deceiver!! I was in China last month, THERE IS NO SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE IN CHINA!!!
You can also ask this of every person who actually lives in China (unlike you, deceiver, who thrives on spreading lies and hate from afar to gullible heavily-propagandized conservatives who have no clue and are quick to believe whatever lies deceivers like you tell them, without inquiring, and so are quick to hate, just as you intend...
STOP WITH THE LIES AND NONSTOP PUSHING OF HATE that you're doing to generate support from gullible propagandized americans for trump's coming attack on "evil china" (after he enters office in january)
Anyone who reads this comment (not you, yuri, you vile deceiver), please see this profound MUST-READ essay to understand how the warmongering deceivers push constant lies and emotionally maipulate you to fear and hate "those evil monstrous enemies over there who are coming to get ya" to deceive you into blindly cheering when their billionaire's empire attacks those that they propagandize you fear and hate with their constant lies.
Don't miss this profound essay that will open your eyes to how you're being played https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies
PS. After seeing some the stupid hate-filled comments here - It always amazes me the tunnel vision of those propagandized conservatives who constantly pat themselves on tne back for being so supposedly "awake" to the plandemic but when it comes to the billionaire empire's massive war propaganda then for that they immediately get in line, stop questioning, salute the flag, repeat unquestioningly every line of propaganda the empire feeds them and are salivating at the thought of their Qanon billionaire messiah's coming attack on china.
Truly makes me wonder if you are really awake, my dear conservative friends, if you can be so dumb and hypnotized and obedient to the billionaire empire's war propaganda..
Truly makes me wonder if you actually understand how the billionaire's empire functions and what it encopasses.
I wonder if you actually oppose the empire at all, or only certain limited parts of it. Only the parts that makes you inconvenient
Truly makes me wonder if you really oppose all murder and oppression or are you actually aligned with and enjoy certain forms of murder and oppression (especially the ones that give you a hard on becasue they come with a sectarian flag or religion)
I hear you shouting but I can’t work out what you’re saying…
I apologize. As far as I can tell, the comment is written in the most simple plain english possible. Tell me which sentence or paragraph you do not understand and i will do my best to explain it.
Or is it that you're objecting to the use of caps to emphasize a sentence? Doing such a thing is not acceptable to you? It hurts you to the point that you feel the need to pour scorn?
Or is it that you're actually trying to put down the content of the comment but using a roundabout technical criticism to achieve that...
The communist party in china is a brutal authoritarian regime that doesnt care about anything about power. The Chinese people and the rich historical chinese culture has been victimized by the Chi coms for decades.
I'm glad you got that off your chest. I hope you feel better now. I'm sure the well-being of chinese people is very dear to your heart and that's why you made this comment.. Just like your "humanity-loving" american billionaire's empire, which constantly expresses deep concern about the well-being of chinese people and that this concern might be the reason why thry will "have to" attack china soon, becasue they are really really concerned about the well-being of chinese people and really really want to bring them "freedom and prosperity", you see..)
I'm sure you're so concerned about the well-being of chinese people that you'll be the first to try to dissuade mass-murderer trump and his anti-life deep state billionaires from launching their coming attack on china and murdering, brutalizing, maiming and traumatizing countless chinese people, becasue of your deep concern for chinese people, right? RIGHT?!?
I'm sure that you - being the great humanitarian that you are - were also the first in line to try to stop Bush Jr, Obama, Trump, Bush Sr and every scumbag american president from murdering millions upon millions in their global crusades of greed, domination and mass-murder to enrich your anti-life terrorist empire and cement the domination of american billionaire's over humanity. I'm sure you did that, because you americans are very well known for your deep care for humanity...
So don't you worry, i totally believe you that you made this comment because the well being of chinese people is very dear to your heart and is your upmost concern.. (just like your humanity-loving american empire, which is very concerned about the well-being of chineses people and really wants to bring them freedom... )
By the way, you might want to know that the state department has just published new talking points on exactly how to hate their target country most effectively and how to keep the flame of hate burning all the way up to the empire's coming attack. You don't wanna miss it. It's really cool stuff. Go there and keep yourself updated on the latest most effective propaganda slogans to keep the hate going (they also have plenty of oldies and goodies still available for you to pick up, things like "the damn commies are the source of all my troubles" and 'china hates freedom' and "'the commies are coming to get ya' and 'lets bring american freedom and prosperity to the world' and 'the only way for me to be happy in life is if we destroy china' etc etc, plenty of goodies for you there to pick up and scream out). But don't you worry my friend, you won't have to keep the intense hate going for much longer, soon our righteous savior trump and his deep state israeli billionaires will enter the white house and will give us the wonderful gift we were all waiting for of finally attacking evil china. Yay!!!
PS. And when you come up for air from sucking the pentagon's dick and obediently repeating the CIA's talking points like a well-trained robot, you might want to read this profound essay to understand how you are being played https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies
PPS. It always amazes me the tunnel vision of those heavily-propagandized conservatives who constantly pat themselves on the back for being so supposedly "awake" to the plandemic but when it comes to the billionaire empire's massive war propaganda then they immediately fall in line, obediently salute the flag, unquestioningly believe and robotically repeat every line of propaganda that the empire's narrative managers feed them, and salivate in anticipation of their billionaire messiah's coming attack on the empire's target countries.
Truly makes me wonder whether you are really awake, my hypnotized conservative friends, if you can be so dumb and blind and obedient to the billionaire empire's propaganda on some issues..
Truly makes me wonder if you actually understand how the billionaire's empire functions and what it encopasses.
Truly makes me wonder if you really oppose all murder and oppression or are you actually aligned with and enjoy certain forms of murder, domination and oppression (especially the ones that give you a hard on becasue they come with a sectarian flag or religion)
You sound like a fanatic. I am scrolling past. You may have a useful message, but you are abusing your readers, as far as I can see.
Thanks for your apology. x
I experience that every day.
Check out the Olympic wrestling gold match Japan v. China.
Japan won
Wait, you can’t check it out. It’s not found anywhere on the net.
Interesting. You can see the other Japan gold matches.
Who runs the planet ?
I checked it out. I saw a few articles and some still pictures of the victor. But no video of the match! Truly creepy and bizarre.
Very interesting. The things which are hidden reveal the truth in an indirect way
Very interesting, if true. (Sorry, don't have time to check it out)
Are you a robot? 🤖
bro I'm all for people practicing their English but for the sake of us, your readers, could you pls have a heart and distill your mega comments down? an example would be "I'm more 🧠 than u and I don't like Trump" that would be ever so kind ty
Thanks for posting one of John Spritzler’s articles! Everyone should be educating themselves by visiting his website. His essays on Egalitarianism are, in fact, about an ideology in opposition to “GloboCap”, which I call Imperialism, the last and final stage of capitalism as defined by VI Lenin.
Have you ever heard of Uyghurs?
https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/social-credit-vocabulary-list/
https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/nextcreditplan
https://digichina.stanford.edu/work/planning-outline-for-the-construction-of-a-social-credit-system-2014-2020/
Thank you. Two things, one technical and the second more important:
One, it seems like you are attempting to claim, with your wordless reply, that there is a social credit system functioning in china. If that is indeed your claim then please show it to me. Where is it happening? Show me where is social credit system being used in china? Where is it? Show it to me. Show me its use. Where is it? I didn’t see any such thing in china and not a single person that I spoke to ever heard about it (Some people mentioned that there is a scoring system with the some banks and some payment processors, similar to the banking credit score in america, but this has nothing whatsoever to do with a social credit system). If you believe there is then please show it to me. Your links absolutely do NOT show that such a thing exists. If you think it does, then show it to me happening. Where is it? Show it to me. I am sure my friends in China will be curious to learn that such a thing exists (becasue they never heard about any such thing before). Where is it? PLEASE SHOW IT TO ME!!!
Second, and more importantly, lets say for the sake of argument that such a thing did exist (I assure you it does not, and not a single person in china have heard about such a thing, the only place where this exists is in the hate-filled conservative echo-chambers who get a hard on from imagining how they can use such a thing as an excuse to attack china, and drool thinking about trump’s coming attack), but lets go back to my question, lets just say for the sake of argument that such a thing existed (it does not, but lets just say it does, for the sake of argument) does this give the anti-life american billionaire mass-murderers and their global militarized empire (of abuse, greed, murder, resource-theft, subbjugation, torture, brutality, bullying, intimidation, control and domination), does this give the anti-life american billionaires’ global militarized empire the right to attack china and murder chinese people? Because of such a thing?
Because you know, don’t you eris, that this is precisely why the vile anti-life God-ignorant right-wing conservative billionaires are pushing this narrative and constantly teaching you to hate hate hate hate!!!!
The reason they are constatntly pushing this fake narrative is to get you to hate hate hate their target country so that you'll cheer for its attack. They need you hating their target country so that when the american billionaire ruling class moves in for the kill and gets ready for the attack on china (to destroy any challenge for their empire’s hegemony and domination over humanity and the planet, and to destory any form of living on the planet that dares to deviate from the american billionaires’ profit-over-people model) when that happens, when mass-murderer trump holds up the bible before his attack on china and tells heavily-propagandized conservatives that this is “the last battle of good vs evil”, so that at this moment, all the years and years of hate propaganda that they invested in you, teaching you to hate hate hate hate china, at that moment it will all bear fruit and you will happily cheer for their attack on “those evil people who hate freedom. They don’t value life like us and our global militarized empire that murders millions for the american billionaire ruling class, oh no, they are evil evil evil, i even heard they have this evil social credit system, didn’t you hear?! So yes, go ahead, our hero savior trump, go ahead and attack those evil people..”
You do realize, don’t you eris, that this is what this fake narrative and hate propaganda is all about. That this is why the anti-life american billionaire murderers constabtly hammer into your head that you need to despise their target country, "because they hate freedom and have this evil social credit system.."
Bloodthirsty greedy american billionaire murderers look for any excuse whatsoever to attack their target country and to hammer you with hate propaganda. That’s the exact same reason why they pushed the xinjiang propaganda nonstop, amd why they funded and armed the hong kong riots etc etc. They don’t give a sh*t about people in xingjiang, or in taiwan or in hong kong or that people in china shouldn’t have social credit, they don’t give a sh*t about any of that, it is all an excuse for these anti-life american billinaires (and their global execution force, a.k.a the american military) to attack and take down anyone who challenges their ‘profit above life’ model and their global domination over humanity and the planet.
And in order to have public support for their planned attack, they constantly hammer into the heads of heavily-propagandized conservatives the so-called reasons for why their target country is “evil” and needs to be attacked and taken over.. They play this trick on americans (especially on quick-to-hate conservatives) again and again and again, and emotionally-manipulated conservatives keep falling for it again and again and again, always cheering for the "patriotic" attacks of the anti-life american billionaires on their target countries (unless the attack is on christians, then conservatives are not cheering for it, but as long as the empire murders non christians than its fair game, after all, they’re evil, they hate freedom, they don't follow moral judeo-christian values, and they don’t value life like us and our global militarized empire that murders millions…
That is the reason, eris, for why this issue is constantly brought up by anti-life warmongering american billionaires and their conservative narrative managers. To teach you to hate hate hate, so that you’ll cheer for their coming attack on “evil china”
That’s the monstrous truth behind the life-destroying mass-murdering greedy american billionaires global empire, and that’s why americans are constantly taught to hate hate hate. That’s why they want you “concerned” about this eris, and searching the internet to find obscure articles to send me in order to “prove” how “evil” china is and that it needs to be attacked.
That’s the reason, Eris.
There is no greater evil on this planet, and nothing that moves people more away from God/Love and into tribalism and hatred, then the american global mass-murdering billionaire’s empire of domination, greed, mass-murder, abuse, control, violence, resource-theft, subjugation and life-destruction.
I highly recommend this profound essay to understand how they are playing you https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies
All I can hear is "Me. Me. Me. Look at Me." Paid distractor of discussing what this article is all about?
https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/measures-on-the-administration-of-railway-passenger-credit-records-provisional/
https://www.chinacourt.org/law/detail/2015/07/id/148347.shtml
http://epaper.lnd.com.cn/lnrbepaper/pc/con/202208/08/content_160149.html
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2185303/hi-tech-dystopia-or-low-key-incentive-scheme-complex-reality
The system is not unified yet, is in process. You can research for yourself about where and how it works. Or move to china if is better there.
This is an AI generated comment. Go away troll
As I wrote to you earlier in my reply above (the first time you made this ignorant, empty, shallow, unintelligent claim) I'm sorry to disappoint you but I am a loving caring psychologically-mature person (unlike some hate-filled immature and heavily-propagandized commenters here) who is deeply concerned about how to stop the descent to corporate control and tribalistic/nationalist/religious division hatred and world war. If you'd like to, I would be willing to have a mature respectful dialogue with you, here or in person, on any thing that I wrote (if you have the capacity for such mature, intelligent and respectful interaction. Your comments here suggest that you might not posses such maturity or discernment..)
And if you'd like to have a little more insight into where I am coming from, then I invite you to look at what is shared on my page.
Yes, it's true that I'm not as unintelligent as most propagandized warmongering hate-filled conservatives have been taught to be, but to be more intelligent and loving than hate-filled war-mongering propagandized conservatives doesn't take much, my friend. No AI is required for that..
I see that the new trend now among some heavily-propagandized conservatives is not only to deeply hate whoever their warmongering mass-murdering billionaire empire tells them they must hate but also to strip the humanity off of anyone they don't like and claim that the other person is AI whenever they hear something that deviates from their war-machine's manipulative slogans that they are hammered with nonstop in their echo-chambers. Anything that makes them feel uncomfortable because it does not follow the warmongering hate-filled script they're used to, is now labelled "AI bot"
But I guess i shouldn't be surprised, stripping others of their humanity, turning another into a one-dimensional image/caricature (which is then easy to dehumanize and hate) is an established right-wing tradition throughout the ages and the common war mentality which the corporate-capitalist empire uses to make sure it has devouted conservative soldiers ready to do the killing for the billionaire's empire.
And yes, I certainly have been villified, dehumanized and severly hated and attacked by unintelligent brainwashed warmongering conservatives before, it is just that this new form of right-wing dehumanization (calling you AI whenever they don't like to hear what you are saying) is a bit new to me, but I guess I'll get used to it soon enough, once they all start adopting this attack and dehumanization line.
And again, if there is anything substantive you'd like to have a respectful mature dialogue with me about then I'm very open to it (I repeat, a respectful mature serious dialogue, of two serious kind-hearted people who are concerned about the suffering and fate of our brothers and sisters, NOT a childish conservative ego battle of "I must win the argument and crush you")
Really?
Yeah well…that’s a parody site. Or a conservative hate site. Or something because OP said it doesn’t exist.
And I can tell you that my Chinese penpals will also say it doesn’t exist.
My Chinese penpals, however, after making the slightest criticisms of the regime would disappear 6 months, a year, two years and sometimes never reappear.
But, those credit scores don’t exist.
Sounds like you have an unfalsifiable hypothesis.
Sounds like he knows how totalitarian regime work, and what people can and cannot say in those situations.
It's kinda like a kid trapped in an abusive family. A social worker comes and asks if all is well. You think the kid will tell the truth? Oi.
By that logic, we should break up all families regardless of what the testimony is. Guilty until proven innocent.
Thank you, I addressed that in my reply to Eris above. The reply has two points, and I suggest to especially consider/reflect on the second point (in relation to what makes it important to you to try to "prove" this).
I would then invite you to consider what's pointed in this profound essay https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies a must read for every human on the planet, in my view, to understand exactly why the establishment created this blatant propaganda piece that you shared (with all the manipulative tactics leading you by the nose to the desired conclusion of hatred of their targeted country). These warmongering manipulative ruling class fuckers and their propaganda media play this trick on us again and again and we never seem to learn, we seem to be so eager to find confirmation for our pre-concieved hostile conclusions that we just keep falling for their war-propaganda again and again and again.. see
https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies
PS. And by the way, from CJ's readers i would have expected a little more discernment than to provide such blatant government propaganda as "proof". Surely, we wouldn't take these deceivers' word at face value when it came to vaccines, would we? But when it's time for the good old warmongering china-bashing (directed from the global murderers in the pentagon and implemented in all the empire's vassal states and its propaganda media) then it seems that for that purpose suddenly gov't is very trustworthy and true freedom fighters, who really really care about people's freedom (yes, they really honestly do)
Surely people are not that dumb and have wisen up by now to the fact that the australian government doesn't publish such propaganda pieces out of the goodness of their heart and their wish to "protect the freedom of chinese people".. surely conservatives are not this stupid, are they? Surely people can see that this is the product of the 1.4 trillion dollars dedicated in the budget to push the 'china evil' narrative to get the population on board with the billionaire empire's coming planned attack.
It always amazed me the tunnel vision of those heavily-propagandized conservatives who constantly claim to be so "awake" to the plandemic but when it comes to the billionaire empire's massive war propaganda then they immediately fall in line, salute the flag, repeat unquestioningly every line of propaganda the empire feeds them and are drool in anticipation of their billionaire messiah's coming attack on the empire's target countries.
Truly makes me wonder if you are really awake, my hypnotized conservative friends, if you can be so dumb and blind and obedient to the billionaire empire's propaganda on some issues..
Truly makes me wonder if you actually understand how the billionaire's empire functions and what it encopasses.
I wonder if you actually oppose the empire at all, or only certain limited parts of it. Only the parts that makes you inconvenient
Truly makes me wonder if you really oppose all murder and oppression or are you actually aligned with and enjoy certain forms of murder and oppression (especially the ones that give you a hard on becasue they come with a sectarian flag or religion)
Again, i respectfully invite to seriously consider the second point in my reply to Eris above, as well as the profoundly important must-read essay linked above (here it is again https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies )
Hmm, why do I suddenly think you are distracting from the topic and what this article is all about?
I obviously don't know for certain why certain conditioned thoughts and feelings are generated in you, but my tentative guess is that you might be thinking this possibly because if the pre-established ideological filters on the glasses that were put on your eyes, the glasses through which you might be reading and interpreting everything (filters which are created for you by the God-ignorant mass-murdering global american billionaires' militarized empire, to make sure americans are as hateful as possible towards the billionaires' target country, so that you'll cheer when the anti-life Godless american billionaire murderers actually attack their target country).
If so, then from my experience, it's very likely that these ideological filters distort and don't allow you to hear what another is actually saying (make your heart corrupted and deaf), which in turn leads to such questions. But that's just my tentative guess. I think that it is for you really to answer this question and truly learn and understand the filters through which you view things and which distort and corrupt your heart
Not only did i answer his question fully and directly but i also told him of another response where i addressed this at even greater length PLUS i went out of the way to cover all angles and I gave him a link to a profound essay that shows him EXACTLY how he is being played (shows exactly who ensures that he's emotionally-inflamed about this so that he'll cheer for the american murderers' coming attack).
If this feels right for you then I respectfully recommend also for you to read both the essay that i gave him as well as my response to eris above (the response i told him about), specifically the second point in my reply to eris, and to truly consider and reflect on what i point out there, if you have such maturity and capacity for consideration and reflection (though i unfortunately have to doubt if such capacity is present becasue in my experience, most heavily-propagandized american conservatives are so deeply blinded and invested in the addictive nice feeling that is generated in the body through repeating the hate hate hate HATE warmongering slogans that the anti-life american empire's narrative managers hammer into conservative's head nonstop 24/7, so deeply addicted to that feeling in tne body generated by hostility and hate that they are simply beyond reach, it is like interacting with a brick wall whose only interest is not in life but in destroying and crushing you to "win" agaimst those who the empire tells you nonstop are evil.
That is why, quite honestly, i have little hope for true mature sane pro-life interaction with deeply hateful and heavily propagandized american conservatives, so great and intense is the war propaganda and the billionaire empire's militarized brainwashing..
But anyway, if you have this capacity then please do read the second point in my reply to eris, and the profound essay linked above, and please do try to reflect on that before any automatic knee-jerk learnt hostile reaction. I am not against you
I’ve been a middle of the road conservative my entire life. I just want to be left alone. I knew there was some…thing…idea…whatever it was for many years, but until this moment I couldn’t put my finger on it. I knew the fight was uphill, or even straight up the cliff. I’ve felt something was trying to take control of my thinking. I won’t stop resisting, but I finally know what IT is. Thank you, sir. And I see how this concept can infuriate folks from both sides of the ideological spectrum.
We have created a monster.
How did we create the monster? Wasn't it by being "middle of the road conservatives that wanted to be left alone, have a family, create some wealth and have a good life?' I was the same. We were too complacent and took everything for granted and we were too lazy and couldn't be bothered to bother about "the canaries in the coalmine" of the 80ties and 90ties who knew exactly what was going on and yelled about at the top of their lungs but no avail. Crazy radicals, I thought. Don't they have anything better to do?
We pay now for falling asleep. We didn't bother watching the greedy thieves surrounding us. Now, we pay and rightly so.
Hold on. I am going to die soon. It is actually our children that pay and who have to sort out our shit. I let them down. I thought security and prosperity were all that mattered. I thought history was frozen in time and the good years would go on indefinitely. This is all on us - the baby boomers. Like it or not.
Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.
I’m not shirking my responsibility in this. None of that matters now anyway. What to do about it is all that matters.
I wish I'd be still here when the next generation gets yelled at the same way younger people are yelling at us baby boomers. Nuts.
Interesting, and level headed.
I'm one of those who mostly disagrees with you about the alleged evils of "capitalism" though I'm not the type to "cancel" you just for being wrong about this issue. My biggest problem with your rants against capitalism is that I'm left having zero idea what you propose as the alternative.
For my part, I don't describe myself as "pro-capitalism", but rather "pro-free market." I don't like the word "capitalism", because it connotes "big", whereas I believe in individual rights, including property rights -- *in principle*, which means it applies to both big and small. Everyone deserves to have their rights respected no matter the scale. So where I sort of agree with you is that I think the term "capitalism" implies/causes a bias in favor of the large (aka "corporatism"), and I also agree with you that this is getting more and more out of control over time.
The root of this mayhem is that our society has never precisely defined what should and should not be considered "property." This is very analogous to when slavery was allowed -- the root of the problem then was a misdefinition of property such that it included people as ownable, the problem was not with "capitalism" per se. And the problem now is not due to having very large enterprises or even having them globally, but rather with myths about what should and should not be considered ownable. To cite myself on examples:
Nobody has ever explained how patents are morally defensible:
https://reasonandliberty.com/articles/patents
Nor is centralized medical licensing defensible:
https://reasonandliberty.com/articles/obamacare
It is honestly baffling to me how people come to form these views. Can you cite an example of me "ranting" about or calling capitalism "evil"? I just spent several paragraphs in this very column explaining how capitalism liberated us from despotism and made possible most of the freedoms we enjoy today. Is it just seeing the word itself that is so triggering?
Rather than start all over and reiterate what Shayne was saying, I would like an opportunity to clarify. It’s not that the word Capitalism is so triggering it’s that capitalism is an economic concept stemming from a very basic simple concept called supply and demand. It has long since been recognized that without a structure of laws and regulations it can become corrupt by the people who manipulate supply and demand. When corruption supersedes and renders laws and regulations either ineffective or weaponized, Capitalism loses its boundaries of simple supply and demand and becomes a political and cultural Leviathan, which is what it has grown to become. Governments have figured out how to use laws and regulations to grow more powerful and also have figured out the most effective tool for maintaining power is Totalitarianism. They use Marxist, Maoist, Hitlerian tools at a very highly engineered level to maintain Totalitarian control. It’s the lock on power that has become the Leviathan using any means necessary to maintain its control. There are momentums against this, not perfect, that are attempting to beat back the beast. We need something to help us push back on this insanity that is literally destroying us. This is where you fail humanity. You distrust everyone and everything, many religious organizations distrust everyone and everything, we can’t let the idea of the perfect destroy the momentum for good enough. Rejecting everything in play only allows the beast to grow more fearsome and powerful. I don’t think anyone knows any more what the final “vision” is supposed to be, money, power and control. I refer to it as Post Feudalism using Marxist Communist tools and propaganda Psyops to shape the responses, including nanotechnology, threats of pandemics and climate engineering out of desperation to maintain control. We have to put aside our ideological differences to get behind the strongest momentum that is currently trying to push back on all this and stop distrusting everyone and everything, especially each other. Each other is not the enemy.
Once upon a time (shortly before the Globocap timeframe the author describes) the first flush of neoliberal economists & politicians decried monopolies - would actually legislate against them - & would be aghast at the idea of public-private partnerships. I think those who defend "capitalism" against attack probably yearn for those times as much as we (ex-)lefties who have come to join you in opposition to Globocap. But there appears to be no going back. Paul Lancefield described this well in the second of his 3-part essay series here https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/25/fascism-2-0-feudalism-2-0/
"The important point to understand is that as well as spreading the risk, the number of areas in which... [Globocap has] an interest is multiplied and, just as importantly, the number of globalist billionaires with whom [it] share[s] an interest is also increased. The result is a highly diversified, ultra powerful financial unit (a cabal if you like) who hold in common to a massive degree, interest in lobbying for broadly the same policies and ensuring they are applied in the broadly the same policy-driven markets."
There is a new, clear, solution with a plan to implement it for preventing global elite who own all the major global companies from continuing to control the major governments around the world. If you are interested, it is described in the book End Politics Now (EndPoliticsNow.com ).
Understood. But joining a perhaps less than perfect momentum is at least a way right now to push back.
If you are honestly baffled you'd be served by a small dose of humility since at least part of the problem lies with your writing not with my reading. Also, you're the one who's apparently triggered by my alleged misreading, I'm not "triggered."
One of the problems with your writing: if you're saying the free market is good in that paragraph, then in the very next paragraph you confuse the issue by saying "it has no off switch." Why would something good need an off switch? I for one don't want my property rights turned "off". Now, surely you don't mean precisely that but I can't tell what it is you do mean.
This is the section you are referring to ...
"This is how capitalism (or democracy if you’re squeamish) freed us from a despotic ‘reality’ in which values emanated from the aristocracies, kings, priests, the Church, etc. Basically, it transferred the emanation and enforcement of values from despotic structures to the marketplace, where everything is essentially a commodity.
So, hurrah … capitalism freed us from despotism! I’m grateful. I’m not a big fan of despotism. The problem is, it’s just a machine. And it has no off-switch. And now it dominates the entire planet unopposed or restricted in any meaningful way. So it is doing what it is designed to do, stripping our societies of their [vestigial] despotic values, rendering everything and everyone a commodity, establishing and enforcing ideological uniformity, neutralizing pockets of internal resistance."
It doesn't say anything about turning your right to private property off. As I said, I am going to try to engage with people's criticism, but I need people to do a little work to understand and address what I actually wrote.
"It doesn't say anything about turning your right to private property off."
Note that you haven't bothered to specify precisely what it is you do what to turn off.
You're the one who needs to do more work here. If you're going to complain at me for misreading then you should at least put in the effort to not misread me, otherwise it looks like your stated desire to understand your critics is fake.
For me, "capitalism" at least partly refers to "property rights" (a large business is just the property rights of the individual owners of it), ergo when you say "it has no off switch", you are formally arguing that you should be able to turn off my property rights under some conditions.
The answer is literally in the sentences immediately following the sentence you are citing ... "And now it dominates the entire planet unopposed or restricted in any meaningful way. So it is doing what it is designed to do, stripping our societies of their [vestigial] despotic values, rendering everything and everyone a commodity, establishing and enforcing ideological uniformity, neutralizing pockets of internal resistance."
I'm going to leave you to your interpretation and engage with other readers. Honestly, no offense intended, but I can't walk through the whole piece like this, line by line.
dear Mr CJ, Shayne Wissler is kinda right. you're being somewhat irresponsible as a public writer to make statements but not further delve into what you propose be done in lieu of no off switch.
i mean, you CAN just comment, be an observer, but then you're making YOURSELF kinda irrelevant because you're just saying BAD BAD BAD! and that does get... tired. especially now. we ALL KNOW this sucks but...what? where to go? inside or outside?
maybe some of us are just really stupid and beneath you, but you get sooo much right so much spot on, you're not worth dismissing or turning away because you have not only deep insight but also EXPERIENCE we don't yet have.
you sound defeated and disgusted by us. by the flaccid army you think we are. i feel your disgust and am afraid to write or ask but i ask because you still matter, are relevant, more than ever in fact.
but it seems you're stuck in pissed off "you all suck" mode. it's gotta be hella boring there, Brother.
we're LISTENING... READING... so what and where next???
maybe we're just useless dumb fuck losers, but what if we're NOT? what if you're stuck? you sound stuck and pissed off, which you have a right to be, no argument there.
i hate people but also love us with a bare single thread left that i'm trying to add to every day.
your struggling fan trying not to slit my wrists reading your recent columns,
erika
I think my question was clear, simple, and that you clearly did not answer it. I still don't know what it is that you wish to "turn off." Quoting your writing back at me instead of providing a clear definition of what you're referring to combined with your flouncing over such a simple question speaks volumes.
Capitalism isn't just a system, it is a process. So it started nasty, with poor, oppressed workers in dark satanic mills in e.g. Lancashire, milling cotton 'bought' by the Empire from India and elsewhere. Then it had a fuzzy, cuddly (-ish) middle stage where ordinary people could have cars and washing machines and computers. Now it's at the penultimate stage where it's selling you washing machines that can talk to your computer, computers (of various sizes, including the one you hold in your hand, which is your mobile prison warden) that spy on you on behalf of Globo-Cap, while Globo-Cap will soon be switching off your (rented) washing machine when the algorithm finds out you've been reading naughty, anti-Empire Substack pieces.
And the final stage of Capitalism is the one where it collapses itself and transmogrifies into 'communitarianism', which is like communism and fascism combined, but with a lot of virtue signalling and even richer elites than even the old communism could create.
And then they kill you - or at least they continue to kill you but faster than they used to.
From CJ's piece:
" It was challenged by two opposing ideologies, fascism and communism. They fought it out. Long story short, capitalism won."
Even that was (bloody) theatre put on by early-stage Globo-Cap. The Bolsheviks were created and supported by the British deep state (Tavistock, Rhodes-Milner group ...) and Wall St. And so were the Nazis. And then they were set on each other, making lots of money for the usual suspects. See the seminal 'Wall Street Trilogy' by Professor Anthony Sutton, books on the Tavistock Insitute by both Dr John Coleman and Daniel Estulin, and very recently, this one by David Hughes, which has a cover with one of those er ... swastikas on it (but no mask so maybe it would be acceptable to CJ's tormenters:
https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510779853/wall-street-the-nazis-and-the-crimes-of-the-deep-state/
Sheila I also think this is a brilliant summary of how capitalism has evolved over time 👍💫😊
I'm wondering what is the value of the killing. Sure, it looks as if the killers are accumulating things and other resources, but (1) to what end? (to a world empty of what people provide?), and (2) even where you "win" that gruesome contest, when do the killing cycles stop? (when the "bums" and "idiots" of the lower 90% are gone? but that just resets the scale...)
That was beautifully written- simplistic and verifiable, in that all parts of the capitalistic process have never stopped, are just in various stages depending on where in the world you live and your caste within that location, so relatable because it can be actually seen. Not on a screen or in some book or article that can be critiqued an interpreted in multiple ways.
Genius.
Do you write at length or are you more of a influencer poker, you know, keep em' honest type?
Ok—we are entering the useless ego-based "tit-for-tat, I said this, you said that" phase on both sides here, so I am saying goodbye to this threat.
I know this is way off, but for what it is worth: "I believe that the day the first human felt entitled to own property, resources and people, humanity entered a very dark period." That's when greed and power were born - the single cause of all our miseries. Only a grassroots spiritual awakening and a rise in awareness might stop the endgame of greed and power, but this is unlikely. The endgame of greed and power will destroy almost all of humanity. Everything points towards it. Someone lamented that CJ doesn't offer solutions. Well, there aren't any because it got systematic. The system is on autopilot to self-destruction. I agree; there is no off-switch on a societal level. There is an off switch on an individual spiritual level though.
Be nice!
These are good observations that don't get discussed much.
But I'm not sure how you can be pro free market and be opposed to patents. If a person invents something or develops a useful process, it is his, even if it is intangible. Just as we own our own writing and no one can claim it or use it without our permission, we own our ideas and inventions. That presumes that they are unique and exist only as a result of some individual or, yes, corporate effort.
Pragmatically speaking, why would anyone go to the time and expense of developing something, if they can't claim ownership of it. Totalitarian countries are not known for innovation, because there is nothing there to encourage or support it.
Patents made sense when research was self funded and on the fringes. But these days patents are economic vehicles to leverage, instead of an incentive to come up with something new.
Most research is publicly funded but corporations get the patents a lot of times.
Even if you're let's say a programmer for Google and you invent something on your off time, Google can take your patent.
So maybe patents are a problem when only the wealthy corporations have the power to pay for the research.... Like today.
Oh and in big pharma, patents are exactly the way they get rid of past drugs that have less issues in favor of the newer tech drugs that have more side effects...
I'd say yes, and no. A corporation has a right to a patent on a product that it has paid its employees to produce. These days, it can cost millions, even billions, to develop a product. To blame corporations for protecting their rights in that regard are simplistic, to say the least. Employees who develop products typically sign an agreement that their work belongs to the corporation because, after all, they are being paid by the corporation to do just that. Nobody holds a gun to the employee's head when they sign that agreement.
But these days tax dollars do go into some of the R&D that develops products. That should be taken into account. It is up to our government officials to make sure that the taxpayers benefit from government funding of private projects. That can include patent rights. Many universities have research programs that lead to patents. Sometimes, the individual researcher is allowed to claim that patent, yet they put in none of their own money, and were paid to do the research. Something's wrong with that.
Well said. Shayne is so wrong. He apparently has a reason to feel the way he does, which we'd understand if he'd let us know what it is. The excuses he gave were emotional, not productive. Patents actually reflect that we own what we produce and that there are laws that prevent theft. I have only one problem and that's with Congress for allowing China to buy up American patents in order to form monopolies, but mostly for the power the patents give them over our resources.
If I’m wrong you ought to be able to address the actual argument I gave rather than just giving a silly ad hominem.
You should read my article and tell me at what particular step of my argument I've gone wrong, otherwise all I can say is that my position is stated there.
I think patents are very much antagonistic to free market principles and very akin to slavery, and part of the reason why there's a constant attack on all property rights. I.e. because the "capitalists" have in fact taken too much, the other side is that much more energetic about stealing what isn't theirs.
If I invent a widget, the reason that widget exists in the world is because I invented it. It isn't a natural thing that comes from nature. It came from my mind. If I can't patent it, why should I bother inventing it? You'd best think about all that exists because we have patents. The internet is an invention. It didn't just happen. Who would spend the billions that it takes to develop all the intricate parts of the system, if they could not recoup their investment and make money at it? They wouldn't. And we wouldn't have the internet that we have, the energy systems that we have, or very much of all that we do have.
And patents aren't forever. I don't know all the law, but I think that there is a fourteen year window. After that, the patent lapses.
I think we have the internet we have because it is, at its origin, a military development, and they had in mind exactly what they're doing with it now, which is enslaving us. They didn't count on us using it so imaginatively for contacting and 'teaching' each other, which is why countries around the world, but particularly Five Eyes and the EU, are doing their desperate best to shut down the bits that benefit us rather than them.
If your sole motivation to invent something is to make money, then the lack of patents would discourage you. Are you representative of the majority of humanity?
I think you have a fair point here with respect to patents being a large part of the problem. Once the clever corporations and patent attorneys run out of new products and markets to conquer, they turn to nature to monetize. Not just the nature around us but ourselves as part of nature. We humans are their next great commodity. And they have lots of plans for us.
Are they going to patent us?
I wondered if you were referring to certain individuals recently claiming to own the patent on natural existing phenomena, rather than patents on individual personal creations?
Capital is a word to describe a large sum of money, enough to build a factory, that kind of thing. Capitalism therefore describes the actions of those with Capital. To critique the actions of capitalists does not require an alternative monetary/political system to be described , nor does the lack of an alternative negate the critique.
In spite of your argument about what capitalism means, that is not in fact what everyone means by it. "Does not require" depends on your intent. If your intent is to be clearly understood then yes it does require it, since a critique is understood relative to some standard, if that standard is vague then so is the critique.
Rockefeller, back in the 19th century, scoffed at the inefficient idea of competition, free markets, His philosophy and practice was what he called cooperation. The free market permitted him, and his peers, the freedom to absorb all his competition, and his example has been followed since then in all business, including banking, and now government. Thus, we have arrived at ultimate centralization with the appearance of capitalism.
Yes, it's a common pattern that businesses often succeed because of the free market and then when they get sufficient power they then stamp out the free market for everyone else. E.g. social media companies who go before Congress and support legislation that would make it impossible for competitors to emerge.
see my comment above.
I found it confusing that he declares globalcap has no ideology and then a couple of paragraphs down, refers to its ideology. ???
I realize this is a difficult concept to grasp. Basically, an ideology is only an ideology in relation to other contrasting ideologies (i.e., Christianity/Islam, Capitalism/Communism, etc). When you are the only game in town (i.e., a globally hegemonic ideological power system), there are no more contrasting ideologies. There are only deviations from "the norm." Your ideology becomes "reality." In so doing, it disappears as ideology. It becomes "just the way things are."
It doesn't. It's all globaloney.
Yes, it is always false to claim that some movement/system has no ideology, even the ideal of abstracting away from ideologies is itself an ideology.
Commodity production is not an ideology. It's a system of production.
This is a pretty good response, thanks.
The thing is "capitalism" is and was always a pejorative socialist/Marxist term to discredit the right of individuals to own productive assets.
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with individuals owning stuff and if someone thinks there is, they are the dangerous ideologue, not the individual who owns something.
To the the extent we are facing problems currently (and of course we are, we always have, there is no utopia) it's not caused by individuals having property rights.
It's caused by governments using the monopoly on violence to force people to do stuff against their will, such as take dangerous experimental medical treatments. Or governments spending money on designing superviruses. Or governments stealing from the productive majority through inflationary monetary policy that benefits a handful of cronies and widens the wealth divide by pushing up the prices of scarce assets.
All these problems are anti market, they are statist, interventionism problems. Not individuals having rights problems.
Frankly the word capitalism simply needs retiring. It's not useful now and it never was. It's a dirty word for an activity that is not problematic. Like calling someone a carbonist for breathing , for example.
"I don't describe myself as 'pro-capitalism', but rather 'pro-free market.'"
OK for me, as long as by "free market" you acknowledge that the existence of this kind of market can be steady-state only under *some kind* of controlling structure and rules. Usually, well... established and maintained by a sovereign government. (Also, maybe now the headless GloboCap PacMan eating the world, but if/when we're lucky, that of the equally headless Bitcoin.) I've noticed too many free marketers are loathe to be conscious of this.
The "capitalism we have" has one and only one, "value" if you will, and that is "profit." If an object or undertaking is "profitable" it is of "value" in the "capitalism we have." If money "can be made" it "will be made." So if money can be made killing people with "safe & effective vaccines" - capitalism will not stand in the way of that money making proposition. If money can be made filling pre-adolescents with toxic drugs to stop their puberty, or if money can be made surgically removing healthy body parts from those adolescents - "the capitalism we have" - will see to it that money is made in those endeavors. Even - "science" and "reason" and "logic" - are no match for "profit" in - "the capitalism we have." We humans are the only ones that can bring "values" to play in any ideological system - but we are helpless to insert our values into the "capitalism we have" - because "our values" do not end with "profit" - so our human and humane values are simply irrelevant in - "the capitalism we have." This doesn't seem like rocket science.
"Find yourself first, and endless blessings will follow. Nothing profits the world as much as the abandoning of profits. A man who no longer thinks in terms of loss and gain is the truly non-violent man, for he is beyond all conflict." Nisargadatta Maharaj
I have been saying exactly this since grad school. How do we inform the capitalist system with human values. My friends used to make fun of me for blaming everything on capitalism. It was in the context of hanging out with people who thought communism was a better alternative, and of course that didn't work out well, but it allowed me the ability to see the water I was swimming in. Thank you, CJ, for also seeing it and stating it so well, again and again and again.
Don’t underestimate the role the GloboCap (i.e. imperialists) rulers and their minions play in coercing and forcing all the rest of us bend to their will. It may be the “capitalism” we have but without humans dedicated to controlling all of us with the help of state power, we would undoubtedly be seeing many attempts at alternatives. One example would be the society put in place during the anarchist movement in Spain in 1936-39: https://www.pdrboston.org/industrial-production-egalitarian-way
A second, a third, read, worthy.
This kind of stuff is why I pay. Clear, understandable, insightful, manifestly true and real
CJ, you've managed in your own inimitable style to be both accurate and confusing at the same time. Thank you. I'm now aligned with both the classical liberal left and the populist right in our shared defence against globocap, or whatever the hell it is you're trying to describe.
We are all trying to make sense of how our world really operates after the " shock and awe" of Covid, and this take fits beautifully. It helps put coherence to what otherwise appears nonsensical. How could country after country enact policies that were nonsensical but repeated everywhere, leader after leader, one incoherent policy after another. In fact they were not incoherent. Not if they were all geared to creating maximally advantageous circumstances for current and future profits for trans national corporations. In that respect, people were responding to the incentives, by an incentive structure had built over decades, combined with extensive planning for a pandemic scenario. The rest of us were just manipulated or coerced by our governments monopoly on the legalized use of force. Very handy for corporations. In essence every decision was designed around marketing and sales, In addition to that vast expansion of the money supply which was also flowed upward entirely into the coffers of global corporations. The Covid affair could largely have been a business strategy in action.
I agree with pretty much everything except this:
"Fascism and Communism were the final ideological adversaries it faced, both being attempts to halt and reverse the globalization of capitalism. They failed."
Fascism is not an ideological enemy to capitalism. Much of US Big Business supported the Nazis: Ford, IBM, Rockefeller's Standard Oil and JP Morgan's Chase Bank, Dupont, General Motors and Wall Street. Corporate law firm Sullivan and Cromwell (the Dulles bros) represented German companies even well into the war. Even before the war ended the OSS/CIA's Operation Paper clip rescued many, many Nazi's war criminals to safety giving them well paying jobs in the US and elsewhere and indeed populating much of the post war government of West Germany. Nazism not only is NOT an ideological enemy of capitalism it is an alternative to liberal democracy when authoritarianism can deliver higher profits. Fascism is simply a form that capitalism can take. (Incidentally, Nazism was not "nationalist" either, they were imperialists. Their goal was to make the USSR a giant colony as it had massive natural and labor resources which Germany lacked, compared to other imperial nations.) In fact CJ, you should know this as it is a big part of David A. Hughes' new book "Wall Street, the Nazis and the Crimes of the Deep State" for which you provided a blurb for the back cover. Did you not read it or do you disagree with him on this?
Fascism/Nazism and Communism were both reactionary attempts to halt/reverse the values-decoding machine that is the ideological engine of capitalism, in that they both attempted to reimpose social structures whose values were determined by ideology/will, rather than by the vicissitudes of the market. All such structures (i.e., values) are impediments to the free flows of capital and the commodification of everything and everyone. And this is why borders, national sovereignty, biological differences, religions, bigotry, etc., must be dissolved.
Now I'm confused. The form of Capitalism you are talking about avoids the vicissitudes of the market. The government can swoop in and limit competition, bail out failing businesses, and pass along the risks to the taxpayers while the businesses keep the rewards. That's why we say "crony capitalism." It ain't exactly a free market. I agree that this global "capitalism" reduces everything to a profit motive, but once the government can manipulate supply and demand, it's barely recognizable as capitalism. It's more like techno-feudalism.
Successful capitalists themselves subvert the market without the help of the government. They simply *voluntarily* collude with each other in ways that screw consumers and corner the market. Mergers and acquisitions is the most obvious example - a monopolistic phenomenon that exploded when Reagan "unleashed the market."
So, do you disagree with David Hughes? Does the historic support of fascism by the titans of US capitalism suggest that they didn't mind much the Nazis' "reactionary attempts"?
GloboCap doesn't care what kind of oppressive system you want to run in your own territory, as long as you're playing ball with GloboCap. See, e.g., Saudi Arabia, China, etc.
First you didn't answer my question about David Hughes. Second, I have been studying this stuff for over 40 years. Read more books than I can remember. There was a concerted propaganda effort made by US propagandists to equate fascism and communism as different flavors of the same thing. Why? Because it was the communists that did the heavy lifting when it came defeating Nazism and the US supported the Nazis and not the communists. It was a bad look. So, easy solution: re-write history.
An author blurbing a book does not mean he agrees with everything in it. It means he recommends people read it, and make up their own minds. What is it, exactly, that you want me to agree with?
In my original post I say:
"Fascism is not an ideological enemy to capitalism."
And then at the end of the same comment I say: "In fact CJ, you should know this as it is a big part of David A. Hughes' new book "Wall Street, the Nazis and the Crimes of the Deep State" for which you provided a blurb for the back cover. Did you not read it or do you disagree with him on this?"
Hughes as two chapters on this, plus this theme goes throughout the book. He clearly demonstrates the continuity with historic fascism and what's happening today. Based on your previous commentary, it appears that you disagree with him.
The fact that GloboCap has a third of the world's nations under economic sanctions might speak against that (assuming one considers Venezuela or Russia, say, to be oppressive).
Chinese capitalists are flourishing under an authoritarian system as we speak.
Hitler declared his intention to colonize the East in 'Mein Kampf', more than a decade before the Polish crisis.
Houghton Mifflin, 1971
Unsubs is a good sign that you are doing something right.
that's too simplistic. it's time for understanding clarity and bridging ideas communicating blowing minds opening hearts blah blah blah. upending tables and storming out is for movie endings and cops coming to arrest you now.
The problem is the law and taxes.
The law does not apply to the multinationals and billionaires so they pay no taxes whatsoever.
Small business has no chance with a marginal tax rate of 85% when amazon pay 0.1% and milk the benefits system to subsidise their workers.
Capitalism only works if the law is applied equally.
More here; https://truthaddict.substack.com/p/how-to-exit-the-matrix
Globocap has no intention of relinquishing its monopoly.
Trump is not going to save the day.
It is unremittingly bleak.
All we can do is exercise our personal sovereignty and resist its imperative to control us.
It may not take that many, as multiple commentators have observed.
RE: Capitalism only works if the law is applied equally.
Laws are made to serve the interests of the biggest capitalists. When did the version of capitalism that you describe ever exist? The world's first joint stock company was the British East India Company chartered by the state to rape India. They made up their own laws...
I think we have hit the nail on the head.
If you let capitalists make the laws the people are constantly held in servitude.
What you are talking about is democracy. Democracy under capitalism is sham and it is not hard to demonstrate that it always has been.
I don’t understand all the laws and taxes for sure. But I think I understand system seems unfair. Do the Bezo’s and Musks really break the laws? I understand they have a net worth. Can they leverage their assets/net worth and get loans from the bankers at a low rate and avoid personal income taxes since it’s a loan? Also, why should the government go after them for more taxes if their businesses employ thousands of people who do pay personal income taxes ? Really, I don’t understand because I don’t. Would people not chasing the low prices at Walmart help? I don’t know many people in my circle who like to pay more for something, they basically price shop. Corporations are machines that require only to make profits and yes watching the margins is part of it.
It’s greed. The corporations are doing what corporations are suppose to do. What can the individual do today? I don’t the think the answer is political, perhaps it’s a spiritual problem but that makes me weird. It’s a puzzle. I think we just need to get out of the ideological box we camp in. The machine loves how divided we are.
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The law is written by billionaires for billionaires so they do not need to break the law. They simply use the corrupted laws to rob blind the poor and destroy all the small businesses. They are very good at it.
Billionaires pay no tax because they know it is voluntary. There is a way for everyone not to pay as well because paying tax has now become a criminal offence.
More here; https://truthaddict.substack.com/p/how-to-exit-the-matrix
Yes, I think President Trump mentioned something similar to that in 2016. I often say that the elites/ruling class/politicians/CEO’s/Bankers/Celebrities attend the same weddings. It really doesn’t matter what political party or if they lean left or right or liberal conservative. Truly, nothing is new under the Sun. So many of us are comfort addicts. God forbid if the AC goes down or the Internet is too slow or worse doesn’t work at all. Perhaps modernity is the problem. It’s an interesting time to be alive. Thanks for the links.
I sympathise with the retelling fatigue but I think getting it into a nutshell like this was worth it. I thought to argue that I'm on the right and I agree that our current capitalism is the problem and then I remembered that I'm not actually on the right, that's just what they call me. I think both sides are terrified that if you took away global capitalism no one would be in charge. They really don't see that no one is in charge of what they think they are anyway. Like here in Australia, people still think our food and drug regulator has a lab and tests things. We would all be a lot better off if everyone stopped lying that everything isn't 'buyer beware', well, maybe not a few corrupt politicians.
"I don’t really care what they call it (global capitalism), except when they call it ‘communism,’ which just makes them sounds extremely silly."
But Global Capitalism is communism. Communism and capitalism were never the antithesis of each other. That's a mistake that too many people make. It is communism and free markets that are the antithesis of each other.
Marx, and communists generally, didn't want to destroy capitalism, they just wanted to own it. Their ideal was factories and all production controlled by the central government. For all intents and purposes, that is what Global Capitalism is.
So are you saying that Blackrock, Big Pharma, Wall Street, Bill Gates, the National Security State, the CIA, the BIS etc, are all communists?
Yeah, they have one thing in common—— control, which is central to communism. Who the owners of the “means of production” are makes no difference. They are held in common for one purpose, control.
Given the very close ties between these corporations and government, yes, they are communist. Compare the cozy relationships between these entities and similar entities in China and Russia, and I think you'd find more similarities than differences.
First, history lesson: The USSR stopped existing in 1989. Russia is not communist. (I know the MSM seems to have forgotten that...) China is some kind of hybrid system.
Second: By your definition "close ties between government and corporations" (speaking of the US alone) has existed at least since WWII in form of the Military Industrial Complex - at least. So, was/is that communism? (It is well documented now that Covid was a military operation.)
I guess you are unaware of the famous definition Mussolini gave: "fascism is simply when you can't slip a cigarette paper between the interests of business and the state."
Thanks for putting all of this in one place, CJ. I absolutely agree with this model that you have laid out to explain our current reality. It is what it is, regardless of what we want to label it.
How do the main perpetrators (controllers) of Global Capitalism fit into this model? This system was created and engineered by humans and is continuing to be operated from a top down level to achieve the end goal of having a Chinese-like totalitarian society where we are all tracked and controlled like farm animals on the planetary farm known as Earth.
The only way out of this system is to recognize it for what it is, agree on the fact that this is an us versus them situation (slaves versus rulers), and build something parallel and/or completely outside of this anti-human, soul wrenching, dream killing meat grinder.
Thank you for all that you do and for continuing to fight for the human spirit. You are truly an inspiration!
I'm ok with totalitarianism so long as there is no one in charge.
In a sense, you have described Orthodox Christianity. There is a very interesting book exploring such a theme, from the early Soviet era, (one of the few successes of ProletCult) called 'Kotlovan' (Eng. The Foundation Pit) by Andrei Platonov.