Click here to access article by Colin Todhunter from East by Northwest. (Note: I am re-posting this article, which I originally posted on the 21st, because of recent comments added by Todhunter and this blogger which adds considerable interest to the issue of capitalism and writing about all the issues related to the system. Please feel free to join in.)
Once again Todhunter shows how the profit gatherers will use any means, even chemically infested foods, to reap their profits and power. Unfortunately, he like many other critics, who almost daily attack the inevitable effects caused by capitalist activities, fail to target the system which not only permits such anti-social practices, but actually promotes them. It's as if these critics also believed the chief propagandists of the capitalist class, people like Samuel Huntington, Francis Fukuyama, and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that development of human societies has achieved it final perfect expression in Western capitalist societies and will become the model for all others to follow after the older cultures and religions succumb to the West's influence. The West, of course, embodies "democracy", human rights, material abundance, and all other virtues. Although they don't buy into the virtuous West, they seem to have succumbed to the theme that "there is no alternative".
I'm referring to such astute critics as Eric Draitser, Tony Cartalucci, F. William Engdahl, Pepe Escobar, and Colin Todhunter (I'm not sure about Michael Hudson) who fail to examine the underlying dynamics of capitalism which produce the war crimes and corporate crimes they critique in their writings. Instead they limit their criticisms to what are only symptoms of the ongoing activities of this antisocial, class based system. They are very much like some imaginary medical practitioners who limit their treatment of cancer by attacking painful symptoms with mere painkillers. About the only prescription they advocate to treat the awful things that are happening in today's world is a "multipolar (capitalist) world".
Todhunter doesn't even do that. He apparently feels that he can shout about the evils of corporate methods of farming and producing food and be heard over the noise produced by the huge megaphones of corporate controlled media in order to influence people to vote for suitable governors in elections controlled by capitalists.
I really dislike criticizing people like the above named critics, all of whose articles I love reading and posting. But the discussion simply must move beyond their critiques of symptoms to the underlying cause of so much of the misery suffered by humanity. Otherwise I think it is inevitable that humans will disappear from the Earth either from catastrophic nuclear wars or climate destabilization.
