capitalist-communism or capitalist-internationalism are bad
jos boersema
capitalist entities & classes, that pretend to solidify their elitist
grip that 'markets/competition are bad.' It is the same system as
Stalinism: ruthless state power, democracy an empty shell; it is
'proper marxism' minus a real state democracy. It's no good, marxist
movements should be careful to identify it correctly.
Something more dangerous & likely to happen is capitalist-internationalism:
the quest for a 1 world empire disguising itself as 'cooperation between
nations.' Note how close the new capitalist strategies line up with marxism.
There seems to be a chance that the world capitalist elites will attempt
a 180 degrees swing on their position on 'free markets,' once we are
deep enough into the crisis to have discredited the capitalist system
and its free markets.
So please don't be too naieve if you are a marxist (by which token you'd be
naive by definition ?). The enemy will never turn around toward justice,
it is only another twist & turn to fool and control. If you pander to
these twists and turns, you may end up giving them cover to consolidate
their grip a little longer.
The road forward is not to unite the nations under a single boss entity.
The road forward is not reactionary uniting under a single boss, but
progressive talks and cooperation-in-sovereign-freedom between free &
sovereign nations. Cooperation is dead once two parties are enslaved to
a third. Cooperation demands equality of the cooperating partners, it
demands their freedom to act and change their actions. It is a concept
opposite to enslavement to a third party (an imperial command or
imperial world command).
The road forward in the economy is not reactionary total-power to the
ruling clique about everything. The road forward is to install a true
peoples democracy, to install the rules of law of such a system, not
install a clique but install objective laws themselves. Not install a
regime or a club, but a system, a science, a culture. In that we will
need progressive forms of markets, where the defining element will be
the labor democracy ruling each company. Some things will also be done
better nationalized, but where things can be markets they better be
markets. Health care, insurance and above all: business investment
credit, that requires state intervention. Few left wing people seem
capable of understanding this, which is why the revolution isn't
happening already. You're defeated by your own ignorance and dedication
to that ignorance. You don't trust 'free markets,' because the
capitalists always pretended to favor them (which in a sense they did).
The soil will need to be distributed.
Look out not to be led by the nose when you hear as a naive marxist
suddenly the capitalist press spouting your very won brand of economic
ignorance. It won't be for the better, it will be to consolidate their
(capitalist class) power.
Their 'marxism' (elitist control) is not your marxism (people's control
for the better) ... I warned you, don't complaign to me once you fall
into their traps.
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