Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Palestine: the only solution is now the one-state solution

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, August 8, 2014

Palestine: the only solution is now the one-state solution

Click here to access article by John Rees from CounterFire (Britain).

A one-state solution has always been the only legitimate solution for the huge mistake that Anglo-American ruling classes and their Zionist collaborators made by setting up the state of Israel. However, such a solution is not possible as long as the Empire, or any capitalist empire, exists. This pariah state is a creation of capitalist imperialism in order to control access to the abundant fossil fuels in the Middle East, and only the dissolution of capitalism and the establishment of egalitarian societies can finally lead to a one-state solution.

This liberal author and CounterFire have a myopic view of the current crises as argued in another article entitled "From Gaza to Ukraine: unite opposition to Britain's warmongering elite", and because of this they can only advocate the same old strategies of working within the capitalist system to make the problems go away. And, one of their favorite strategies is an old one--protests and more protests.

It seems that liberals are exhibiting a kind of mental illness by constantly doing the same thing and imagining a different result. Capitalist ruling classes have clearly demonstrated the ability to control protests so that they don't interfere with their various destructive projects.