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World Focus: Barack Obama: Are we moving from the Slave to the Nuclear Holocaust? Saturday, July 03 @ 22:58:15 UTC
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How many
hundred millions of precious lives will World War III devour in its oil
Moloch?
By Franz J. T. Lee July 03, 2010
In Venezuela we are seriously studying the latest reflections and
warnings of Fidel Castro. We are asking whether we are moving from the
catastrophic oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico to the nuclear broil, to
the Nuclear Holocaust in the Middle East, to the next World War.
In all these capitalist developments, Karl Marx had the first
theoretical word, will the world proletariat have the last praxical
word? At last, are the global workers wakening up from their slumber?
Independent of the cognitive barriers of
his age, of which all of us are transhistoric victims, beyond doubt,
for
half a century, it was Karl Marx who scientifically and philosophically
has studied the economic exploitative, the political dominating, the
social discriminating, the military genocidal and the ideological
alienating quintessence of capital, of capital accumulation and of
capitalism. Phenomenologically, in appearance forms, tremendously
capitalism has changed over the last century, however, it has not lost
a single tendential law of development as is described in Marx's
Capital. (1)
In fact, even before studying these inherent laws, Marx and Friedrich
Engels in their 'Manifesto of the Communist Party' (1848) actually
predicted the current globalization, formulated the first theory of
globalization.
Now, with regard to the origin of the current, globalized, belligerent,
brutal and barbarous essence of capital, of corporate capitalism,
in 1867 already, how
did
Marx define its birth?
According to him, in a footnote of his monumental
work, Capital, Volume I, Part VIII, Chapter 31, "If money,
according
to Augier, 'comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one
cheek', capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with
blood and dirt." 2)
Marx's teacher of dialectics, Hegel, taught Marx that anything that is
born logically must perish. Capitalism is not immune to this universal
law. Among the tendential economic laws of the inexorable terrestrial
passing away of capitalism, Inter alia, Marx foresaw:
(a) the progressive, merciless, competition, concentration and
monopolization,
(b) the immense socialization of production,
(c) in spite of gigantic extra profits, the fall of the average rate of
profits on a global scale;
(d) the growth of the organic composition of capital, that is, the
diminishing of living physical labor force which produces surplus value
and its replacing by means of machines (nowadays with computers, robots
or nanobots) which
do not consume, do not realize capital;
(e) these bring about anarchy in capitalist production, increased
periods of economic crisis and political turmoil, depression,
recession, class struggles and wars;
(f) and the geometric explosion of progressive pauperization of
workers, social outcasts and unemployed on a global scale.
A simple study of he current global situation, of 'failed states',
'post-modernity', 'transition' and the 'new world order' (NWO) could
easily
verify the above tendency and latency of global capitalism. The above
can only disappear, become obsolete, with the annihilation of
capitalism itself.
Let us look at some statistics of the current situation which
corroborates the geometric explosion of the pauperization of humanity
and the concentration of power, of elitist, ruling class megalomania.
Ab ovo, the capitalist mode of production is corrupt, alienating, is
murder, is theft. If we have not comprehended this by now, well, then
we have a serious psychological problem with veritas, with the truth.
The birth of capitalism in the ancient Greek city-states, and of its
corresponding bellicose superstructure, of 'false flag operations',
already Aeschylus informed us that 'in war, truth is the first
casualty". (3)
(3) See: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rome:_Total_War
In the current global wars launched by he United States of America,
under the slogan 'full spectrum dominance', it becomes clear that not
only the dominant ideas, morality, ideology and religion are those of
the respective ruling classes or elites, also the reigning truth is the
truth of 'Big Brother', who does not accept, does not permit any other
truth. Hence, in 'democracy, the truth, freedom of thought, is a myth,
is not as Rosa Luxemburg stressed: 'Freedom is the freedom of
dissenters", and in the NWO a dissenter is a 'terrorist, an
'extremist'. The Achilles Heel of corporate capitalism is precisely the
truth; nothing the ruling classes fear more than the 'political
awakening' of the workers of the world.
The ex-president of the USA, George Bush, Sr. expressed this fear as
follows:
"If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up
from the lamp posts." (3)
What the Bush family and their corporate, military associates were
doing
and are still doing we witness in "9/11". the Mideast wars, in Gaza, in
the planned attacks on Iran and North Korea, the coming metropolitan
police states, global fascism and a one world government. The
international mass media, controlled by corporate imperialism and
ideology (very often a pseudonym for ruling class myths, hoaxes and
lies) progressively are eclipsing the world truth, Now and then some
authentic journalism as exception proves this golden rule.
In his article "The Global Political Awakening and the New
World Order", Andrew Gavin Marshall gives us statistics
which indicate the truth of what was predicted in Marx's Capital over a
century ago:
" In
regards to poverty and hunger
statistics, 'Over 840 million people in the world are malnourished—799
million of them are from the developing world. Sadly, more than 153
million of them are under the age of 5 (half the entire US
population).'" (4)
Currently we are experiencing not an economic crisis of want but rather
a capitalist collapse of over-production, which endangers the
realization of corporate imperialist capital. We live in a 'democracy',
in a huge depression, in a world in which corrupt, irresponsible
bankers and capitalist racketeers down whose gaping throats are being
stuffed trillions of US dollars, while in Humania South, in
Africa, Asia, America and elsewhere, millions of innocent children die
like flies as a result of hunger and pestilence:
"Further, 'Every day, 34,000 children
under five die of
hunger or other hunger-related diseases. This results in 6 million
deaths a year.' That amounts to a 'Hunger Holocaust' that takes place
every single year. As of 2003, “Of 6.2 billion living today, 1.2
billion live on less than $1 per day. Nearly 3 billion people live on
less than $2 a day.”[43]" (5)
Capitalism is the progressive accumulation of a series of holocausts
against humanity, Inter alia, the Hitler holocaust, the Slave
Holocaust, the Mental Holocaust and the Hunger Holocaust. At this very
moment, as Fidel Castro warned, against Iran the latest Nuclear
Holocaust is already being launched by the USA and their global
bloodhounds. In 2006, 2% of
adults in the world already possessed 50% of global household wealth.
And yet, they want everything. Yes, more precisely, "the top 1%
owns 40% of global assets; the top 10% owns 85% of world assets; and
the bottom 50% owns 1% of global assets; a sobering figure, indeed. ".
(6)
Really, something
is rotten in the state of
Denmark!
Finally, the capitalist world institutions themselves verify what Marx
foresaw long ago:
"The Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) report stated that in 2009, “an estimated 55 million to 90
million more people will be living in extreme poverty than anticipated
before the crisis.” Further, “the encouraging trend in the eradication
of hunger since the early 1990s was reversed in 2008, largely due to
higher food prices.” Hunger in developing regions has risen to 17% in
2008, and 'children bear the brunt of the burden.'[45]" (7)
What is in formation, partially already constructed since decades is a
totally controlled world authoritarian and authoritarian world state.
preferably the USA themselves. To list the whole galaxy of fascist
laws, institutions, detention camps, electro-magnetic arms, projects
like HAARP, surveillance satellites and cameras, vaccines, pills, chips
and personal, identification documents, would detonate the limits of
this short commentary, however, much can be found on many serious web
sites.
In spite of the 'political awakening' of the international workers, we
seem to be drifting more and more away from real class struggle, from
true anti-capitalism and authentic pro-socialism, and are entering
already the dark age of post-Orwellian barbarism.
Seven years ago, I commented that George Orwell was not warning about
Hitler or Stalin fascism, but about a coming world fascism. In his
book, "1984", O'Brien, the mouthpiece of 'Big Brother', explains the
concept "Power", i.e., Capital, to Winston Smith as follows:
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested
in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or
luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. " (8)
(9)
And then O'Brien let
'Schrödinger’s Cat' out of the Pandora Box:
"The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in
their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own
motives. ... Power is not a means, it is an end. ... The object
of torture is torture. The object of power is power. " (9)
Then O'Brien informed Winston about the future projects of "Big
Brother", of the coming global fascism, the One World State:
"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the
skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we
could not do. Invisibility, levitation - anything. I could float off
this floor like a soap bubble if I wished to. I do not wish to, because
the Party does not wish it. ... We make the laws of nature." (p. 218)
(10)
At present we are already living in the post-Orwellian barbarism, in "a
world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being
trampled upon ... Never again will we be capable of love, or
friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or
integrity ". (9) It is almost sure that the NATO could attack Iran at
any moment, this would launch the most brutal world war that humanity
ever would witness: it could even blow capitalism itself into blazes.
(11)
To save imperialism
the workers had to pay with their lives, 50 million in World War I, 80
million in World War II, how many hundred millions of precious lives
will World War III devour in its oil Moloch?
After the Mental Holocaust across centuries, Hitler openly stated that
to control a people is to control its education. How effective this
Mental Holocaust was already can be verified in his famous statement:
How lucky for rulers that people do not think. Yes, it is time to
think. to transcend this coming global nuclear conflagration.
What luck for the rulers that people do not think.
****
Footnotes:
(1) The first volume of Capital was
published in 1867; however, Marx
wrote the famous "Preface to 'A Contribution to the Critique of
Political Economy' " already in1859.
2) http://www.econlib.org/library/
YPDBooks/Marx/mrxCpA31.html
(3)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/14/george-hw-bush-on-joe-wil_n_391322.html
http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/2008/02/take-deep-breath-here-are-few-snapshots.html
(4) See: Andrew Gavin Marshall, The Global Political Awakening and the New
World Order - The
Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom, Part 1.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19873
(5) Ibid.
((6) Ibid.
(7) Ibid.
(8) See: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four, The
New American Library of World Literature, New York, 1961.
(9) See: Franz J. T. Lee, Orwellian
Emancipatory Jewels.
http://www.franz-lee.org/files/pandemonium00481.html
(10) Ibid.
(11) Ibid.
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