Click here to access article by Andrew Gavin Marshall from his blog.
We are witnessing conflicts, insurrections, protests, small wars, etc that are occurring in many parts of the world; but to gain a real understanding of these events, we must carefully examine the primary engine that is driving such events--capitalism. Marshall is doing this with every article he writes. In this piece he focuses the spotlight on the people who operate this system--the transnational capitalist class.
After citing numerous statistics on the concentration of wealth which one can often find in many liberal publications, he goes deeper to show us that wealth concentration does not only mean a lot of poverty amidst plenty which is what liberal commentators do. He shows the really dangerous aspect of the concentration of wealth: excessive wealth means power, it means domination by a few over the vast majority. What is so infuriating about this is that these people try to hide this contemporary dictatorship of wealth behind the rhetoric of "democracy".
When people wake to this fact, they usually take to the streets in an orgy of outrage as we see once again today in Turkey. Such displays of outrage are completely understandable, but we must understand that this international ruling class of capitalists are well prepared for such events. They have armed their governments with many weapons to be used against their own populations which they fear: truncheons to smash skulls, several kinds of gas and chemical sprays, M3 shotguns and rubber bullets, water cannons, stun grenades, etc. Only a movement that is informed and dedicated to the overthrow of the system can successfully challenge and defeat such power, and finally end the social and environmental crises that we are witnessing almost daily across the globe.
