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World Focus: Europe is well on its way to Walk the Plank of Recession
Sunday, May 24 @ 18:37:52 UTC
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 By Franz J. T. Lee
May 24, 2009
Even the euro economies are now groaning under the permanent global
blows and merciless onslaught of the roaring, violent waves of
destruction, while world capitalism inexorably is marching towards
global recession and depression, towards the annihilation of capital
and labor. Its bulldozers have already smashed over 40% of accumulated
wealth and fiat money, its Moloch devours everything that it finds in
its way to conquer the few natural resources that are still left on
earth. The economies of Europe are being atomized, brought to
standstill, because of global over-production, especially of arms of
mass destruction. To realize their capital investments, the
military-industrial complexes, the NASA, Pentagon, NATO, defense
ministries of nearly 200 States, corporations; also, paramilitary
organizations, death squads, gangsters and crooks, have to buy
these arsenals of expensive, modern mortal weapons, to convert these
products of death into billions worth of exchange values, to be able to
sell them, to produce surplus values, profits. Global and space
militarization are among the top corporate priorities; inter alia, they
also have generated this disastrous depression.
Arms of all calibers, arms of mass destruction must have a
use-value, otherwise the above would be possible. Nobody, except
criminal
bankers and their innocent victims, would buy something which has no
use-value at all. Also only mentally deranged sub-humans, totally
alienated capitalist war mongers, would produce tons and tons of
mortal. lethal and fatal weapons just to kill and maim thousands and
thousands of innocent, indefenseless hospital patients, women and
children. All this just to conquer and exploit their natural and human
resources, to convert themselves into capital owners, privileged class
sectors and reckless power hungry elites, who with an iron fist rule
over the unidimensional lonely crowds. .
If this global bellicose status quo would continue, the last hopeful
daydreams and rays of culture and civilization, which we have known
until now, will be darkened by "the day after", which would usher in
the age of "after people".
And what is the use-value of modern arms, of military merchandise? Who,
as a result of sudden bankruptcy would still sell the very noose with
which he would be hanging himself?
The only way to get a new short lease of life for corporate
imperialism, for Europe, North America, Japan and even China, India and
Pakistan
is to destroy everything that ever had to do with the accumulation of
capital and profits, to destroy all exploitative products, production,
productive class
relations, means of production and modes of production, and replace
them with human, natural, social and transcendental creativity,
creation and emancipation.
This capitalists, capitalism, cannot do, it is not its social order,
not its historic duty.
Of course, in difficult times, in labor pain, the workers, the
proletariat, have helped the weak bourgeoisie to gain political power.
This was the case in the 1848 Revolution in France, and in the three
Russian revolutions of 1905, February and October 1917. Out of
gratitude, perhaps President Obama could support President Chavez now
to help in the launching of an international class struggle, to direct
this global fiasco towards "green pastures and flowing waters", towards
scientific, philosophic, sapient socialism..
The birthplaces of capitalism, Greece, Turkey and Italy already
indicate that this is not just another economic crisis; even the
International Monetary Fund warned in April that the recession could
spread across Europe and that it would cause financial chaos and
deceleration of economic growth. In the first quarter of 2009, the
leading economic member of the European Union, Germany was suffering
from a 3.8% decrease of its Gross Domestic Product. However, hand in
hand, even France and Spain are already on their way to "walk the
plank" of capitalist recession. Britain finds itself "between the devil
and the deep blue sea", it goes in the same direction.
Iceland is bankrupt already.
Anyhow, as Wall Street witnesses: In spite of depression, Business is
Business, and as the United States guarantee: Big Business is Good War,
and Big War is Good Business.
franz@franzlee.org.ve
http:www.franzlee.org.ve
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