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February, 2001
New Millennium, Old Struggle
An age old struggle between people and their rulers continues into the
21st century, but perhaps it has never been more crucial. An oppressed,
suppressed, depressed and repressed majority needs to take action
against a minority controlled system that threatens the future of all
humanity.
The second Kyoto conference at The Hague brought 170 nations together
to discuss cleaning the greenhouse gas and toxic filth from our
atmosphere. But the USA insisted on citing trees and forests as “carbon
sinks” which clean up pollution naturally, therefore giving our market
fundamentalists more leeway to pollute. Didn’t you know that nature
could absorb our wretched excess? Or are you an anti-capitalist type who
thinks life matters even more than profit?
The rest of the world is dominated by corporate capital, but retains
some humanity and intelligence . The conference ended with the global
gas chamber finding no support but from the rulers of pollution
central; the USA. At a time when we are in a short term profit induced
energy crisis and desperately need to lower consumption of fossil fuels,
the USA is leading the world into what may amount to a long term
disaster .
Those who feel it important that one or another heir-head presides over
the state should remember that Kyoto happened during the alleged
environmentally aware Clinton-Gore regime. Now that the even smaller
minded Bushmen have taken over, people need to rise above no-choice
corporate politics, and join the global movement to create a political
and economic environment of democratic choice .
The deplorable condition of our natural and social world is the result
of a system which has outlived its usefulness and entered a downward
trend that threatens all of life on earth . If we continue to be
dominated by the values of corporate capital , which treat short term
profits as god and long term social needs as Satan, we could be headed
for disaster.
The dreadful election process showed a new generation what a half-truth
American freedom has always been . That is, if people interpret it
correctly, and not in simplistic belief that we once had a democracy
which was recently stolen. The USA has never been a truly democratic
nation for one moment since it was established by elitists and slave
owners, though the possibilities for finally achieving democracy may
never have been greater.
The uprisings that began in Seattle and continued with international
demonstrations against corporate domination of our world, are the
most positive trends for the future. An international movement toward
democracy and peace among people was never more needed, nor more
feared
by corporate capital and its servant class. That is why an electoral
threat from the Greens and Ralph Nader was treated as viciously and
ignorantly as were the demonstrators .
Establishment media could not say enough about how silly , selfish and
pampered the Seattle demonstrators were, and the same charges were
repeated about Nader and his supporters . The hired hands of capital
spoke and, as is usually the case, their mind management programs were
accepted by people with nowhere to go for their information but to the
very source of their problems.
Still, public skepticism is growing, best exemplified by the majority
who do not vote , and the growing number who actively oppose ruling
power. People will ultimately see through the plastic curtain of
consciousness control. It won’t be easy, but the mistakes and tragedies
of capital will serve to wake more people to the problems, and the
critical needs for solutions.
For instance: the idiotic drug war, now into the upper billions in
dollar costs and the upper thousands in human lives lost and wasted. It
continues in South America, with the dumb Clinton program to invade
Columbia that may be compounded by the even dumber Bush program
that
could expand the war into even more nations. This, while more americans
indicate that they have outgrown the murderous stupidity of this war,
by voting for decriminalization and humane programs for sick people
who need what are now illegal drugs in order to become healthier people.
For instance: the savagely racist policy in the middle east, which
respects the economic power of western petroleum interests and the
the
Israeli lobby, while treating the Arab world and the Palestinians
with total disrespect . Innocent Iraqis still die under our cruel
embargo, while people from Brooklyn, Paris or Warsaw have a right to
“return” to an Israel which they have never before been to, while
natives of Palestine are reduced to refugee status in a Diaspora that
shames the world , but especially the USA.
For instance: the Star Wars missile defense madness, supported by the
nearly spineless Clinton, and more strongly supported by the nearly
brainless Bush. It will not only endanger world peace while wasting
billions of dollars, but also threaten further destruction of the
environment, with its component pursuit of space and weather warfare
that can create floods or droughts and murder people without dropping
any bombs on them,
The American dominated system of corporate capital prospers for the
few,
by causing the many to live on the edge. It maximizes private profit
and socializes risk, by putting the general public into dreadful
situations they can no longer afford . Whether it is personal debt,
social dissolution , economic inequality or environmental pollution, we
cannot let the sales talks of sophisticated mind management rule the day
any longer.
In the words of a great philosopher, this struggle will end
“either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the
common ruin of the contending classes." To avoid our common ruin, we
need an uncommon form of global democracy, and it ought to begin in the
USA, where the problem originates.
Copyright (c) 2001 by Frank Scott. All rights reserved.
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