Grand Thesis: Socialism is not only necessary, it is a matter of survival of the human species and other species (This is an essay in its final edited form except for needed improvements.)
(This essay draws on important previous essays found here and here.)
I
am a socialist. This paper is not an argument that you should be
socialist, but a perspective after a lifetime studying geopolitical
realities. (I have been a socialist from 19 years of age, but I have
fleshed-out my simplistic 19-year-old ideology by subsequent world
events. (I am presently nearly 87 years of age.)
I
am a socialist as China defines it: socialism with Chinese
characteristics, that is, history and culture of each nation should
reflect national characteristics of socialism. In China private
enterprises are under the firm control of the Chinese Communist Party,
and as such the billionaires are not allowed to takeover the government.
Nowadays, socialism means the ownership and control by ordinary people
of economic institutions instead of a class of "owners" (billionaire
capitalists). In the USA, which has a capitalist system, the ruling
capitalist class largely serve themselves in the forms of wealth and
power as a class instead of society as a whole behind a facade of
"democracy". I choose socialism with American characteristics as a
system that can save humanity--if it's not too late.
That means the level of ownership and control should be decided by
ordinary people excluding the outsized, even exclusvie, infuence of the
billionaire capitalists. In the future (if we have one--capitalism: its
wars and its compulsive use of fossil fuels are driving us to
extinction) ordinary people, instead of a billionaire capitalist class
of directors (mostly financial capitalists) in a well-hidden in the Deep State
will decide what constitutes "public ownership" of a society. It means
that our government will be directed by ordinary people instead major
capitalists, and in which the economy serves the interests of the entire
society instead of transnational capitalists or even major industrial
capitalists. There would be no "deep state" in our nation, or any
nation. The government will represent the people and will reflect the
wishes of ordinary people instead of the well-hidden financial
capitalists who control the government and our nation with democratic
pretenses.
...
the genius of the Jew is to live off people; not off land, nor off the
production of commodities from raw material, but off people. Let other
people till the soil; the Jew, if he can, will live off the tiller. Let
other people toil at trades and manufacture; the Jew will exploit the
fruits of their work. That is his peculiar genius. If this genius be
described as parasitic, the term would seem to be justified by a certain
fitness.
Because
left-wing Jews were prominent in the 1917 Russian Revolution, Ford,
like Hitler and most anti-Semites (simple-minded supporters of
capitalism) mistakenly blamed the Jews for capitalism's failures. In the
run-up to WWII the existing ruling capitalist classes chose
authoritarian capitalism (fascism) and largely backed the Nazis. Others
backed the US-Great Britain combination to support authoritarian
capitalism behind a faux ideology of "democracy" in which you have
essentially two capitalist capitalist political parties to choose from.
Ford Inc. and other corporations went on to build trucks for the armies
of the 3rd Reich (read Big Business and Hitler by Jacques R. Pauwels). All
during WWII, Ford, General Motors (Opel) as well as other US
corporations never stopped doing business for the Nazi government of
Germany, but due to the work of US censors you will hardly find a graduate of US universities knowing these facts.
Today,
finance capitalists have largely replaced industrial capitalists in the
ruling class, but they have not changed the goal of a dominant world
empire. Billionaire financial capitalists in the USA, Britain, Zionist
(right-wing Jews) Israel dominate much of Europe and Latin America now
control the world's economies on behalf of transnational capitalism from
a well-hidden Deep State. (Contemporary far left-wing Jews are
illustrated by Norman Finklestein,
a former professor at DePaul University and was hassled by academic
exponents of capitalism that led to his denial of tenure.)
The
well-hidden Deep State of the Empire fear economic repressions and
depressions typical of capitalist nations where the opportunities are
few for ordinary people to increase their wealth and influence. This new
ruling class, the majority of whom, now prefers to issue debt to
private corporations at reduced rates, but by printing money they issue
debt to government at an increasing rates of interest in order to sell
government securities, and to any ordinary "cooperative" individual at
high rates to guarantee their wealth and influence. The US ruling
capitalist or the Deep State now have obligated the government (mostly ordinary Americans) to to pay over 31 trillion dollars of debt while the ruling capitalist class, whose purchase of debt securities enables them merely to live off the interest!
This
class-based system of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire uses
violence and the threat of violence together with trade sanctions to
attain compliance. That is why the USA is involved in many wars and has
over 800 military bases scattered all over the world. That is precisely
the reason that the transnational ruling financial capitalist class and
their Empire have been engaged in many wars. They keep their populations
ignorant of history, and control mainstream media and other social
institutions with appointments in key positions and issue self-serving
propaganda via their ownship of media corporations to maintain their
Empire. Ordinary people of the USA and Britain don’t closely follow
events in other countries, instead are mostly focused on their immediate
family welfare--and the ruling capitalist class knows that, and their
censorship of news and self-serving propaganda helps to keep the
ordinary people in ignorance. However, that may change due to expensive
efforts to maintain their Empire along with efforts to de-dollarize the
world and the resulting decline of Empire economies. The Empire is
expected to use military adventures in place of propaganda as they are
currently doing in Ukraine. This will impact ordinary people in the
lands of the Empire that they are being deceived, and lessen the
effectiveness of censorship and propaganda.
Socialism
applies to Russia that has nearly 10 decades of experience with it as a
system: 7.3 of extreme socialism, more recently 2.5 decades of a milder
kind, and a remaining decade of capitalist confusion in which the
Soviet bureaucrats robbed the nation and nearly destroyed it. Russia has
now maintained the ownership of a large sector of the economy, and they
will not tolerate comproming their independence and sovereignty to the de-facto US/British/Zionist-Israeli Empire. As
a result, ruling capitalist classes of the capitalist "West" have not
liked the existence of Russia (and the Soviet Union) and China, and they do
everything they can to destabilize their governments. China has allowed
billionaires to exist, but under the firm control of China's Communist
party. In the early days Putin, the President of Russia, gathered all the oligarchs
together and warned them not to become involved in politics in return
for his not interfering in their profit-making opportunities. (This article is how NPR reported the event.)
The point is this: ordinary people of each nation of the Empire should
decide, given their history and culture, what are allowed to be private
enterprises, and with no "deep state" or a well-hidden ruling capitalist
class that largely serves themselves with more wealth and power--at the
expense of ordinary people--and with pretenses that their system
represents a "democracy". Along with the decline of Empire, ordinary
people will increasing distrust the propaganda that is fed to them by
the ruling capitalist class.
We
now see our government officials provoking both China and Russia,
following orders of the capitalist ruling class, with visits to Taiwan, a
recalcitrant province of China, and shooting down with missiles their
weather balloons and other ballons--labeling them "spy balloons". They provoked Russia with NATO bases up to their border despite protests from Russia;
and according to German Chancelor Merkle, the capitalist ruling classes
of the Empire hypocritically entered the Minsk agreements with less the
honest motives to provide time to build up Ukraine's military forces.
Furthermore, they blew up the Nord Stream pipelines to furnish Germany with cheaper gas than the US could provide in order to interfere the growing relationship between Germany and Russia.
The war in Ukraine is an illustration of the result of Empire policies, but this war is no ordinary war.
It is a final stand of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire and its
ambition to rule the world before the climate has destabilized to
threaten all humans. Various members of the Biden administration have
repeatedly said that the are in the Ukraine war for the long-haul and
they have backed up this determination by huge investments in the
support of their installed backing of the fascist Zelensky regime in
Ukraine in 2014. The transnational ruling capitalist classes cannot hold their Empire together if they lose Europe. The neocons like Asst. Secretary of State's Victoria Nuland's phone conversation
expressed only the Zionist component of the Empire that regards Europe
with utter contempt. The war in Ukraine maintains the objectives of the
Empire: 1) to keep the European nations from trading and cooperating
with Russia with the result to prevent them from developing ties with
Russia; 2) by scaring Europeans and other monetary rewards, to keep
European nations from withdrawing from NATO; and 3) to prevent the
ultimate demise of the transnational ruling capitalist class and their
project to rule the world. This was their project from the start in
2014: to establish a fascist regime in Ukraine knowing this would
provoke Russia followed by billions of dollars to purchase weapons to
fully back Ukraine and to prepare for war with Russia. The leaders of
the Empire thought that this was a method to destabilize the Russian
government and to wreck Russian-China combination. That is why the
directors of the capitalist Empire feel that they don't consider any
option other than victory in Ukraine and destroying Putin's
administration together with a more compliant government of Russia.
This
dominant, class-based system of capitalism has fooled nearly everybody
in the USA combined with their use of propaganda, psy-ops, gaslighting,
censorship, and other means of manipulating people's consciousness of
the real world. We see today how the transnational capitalist class
inspects our every move over the internet and other media. Worst of all,
so that they can better control us, they propose new digital IDs and
digital currency. Dissident people and real democracy are disappearing
from the USA. With this authoritarian capitalism (fascist) methods,
instead of real democracy, our masters are attempting, and largely
succeeded, to shape public opinion; and for everything that goes wrong,
they attribute to Putin. However, this faux political reality will not
save this ruling class from on-the-ground reality and the growing
understanding of the reality of ordinary people throughout the world.
Their ultimate defeat of NATO (the Empire's army) will come as ordinary
people experience this on-the-ground reality of wages that can't keep up
with inflation and the general decline in living standards. The
contrast between the imposed "reality" with the on-the-ground reality
will be too much for ordinary people to tolerate as their economic
condition declines. Once this of personal experience sets in, the defeat
of the Empire will be only a matter of time before socialism will
replace capitalism everywhere in the world.
However,
will it be too late to save us from the growing challenges of abrupt
climate destabilization as explained by climate scientists Guy McPherson and James Hansen
(10 years ago)? These scientists predict that it is only matter of a
short time. McPherson predicts this year, or only a few more years,
before climate destabilization sets in and destroys most species on
Earth. This is a major existential challenge for humans.