Throughout the world and in the United States neo-liberalism and vampire capitalism have generated an overwhelming feeling of despair, a feeling that it is hopeless to resist the so called “New World Order” of global capitalism. Voting seems a waste of time in the one-dollar-one-vote pseudo-democracy. Labor unions seem to be ineffective against the power of the global Leviathans that dominate the world’s economy. We fear layoffs, downsizing, the relocation of our jobs abroad, and we see the homeless on the street and say to ourselves, “That could be me. I’m one paycheck away.
We live in a parasitic economy that is a royal feast for some, a constant struggle for survival for most, and a living hell for many of us. Though we are capable of producing an abundance of wealth that will improve the quality of life for everyone, the vampire capitalists search the world for cheap slave and child labor to maximize their profit and to feed their blood lust, and now, they are spreading this disease throughout the world, endangering the survival of the human race and the life of the planet itself.
In principle, socialism should be able to take advantage of the increasing awareness that capitalism is failing us, and it is an evil that feeds off our very life blood. But, tragically, just at the moment when capitalism has revealed its fatal flaws and the horrors of its true nature, socialism, as it exists today, has revealed its own weaknesses as an alternative. For example, the Soviet Union in its collapse revealed the fatal flaws of a nondemocratic command economy.
Western Europe and the America of the New Deal have also failed to fully realize all their hopes and dreams of a new future, primarily because they have retained capitalism as the core to their economy, and, therefore, at their best have only been able to ameliorate capitalism’s worse effects and provide a minimal safety net for its victims.
To save ourselves from the evil of vampire capitalism and the apocalypse of self-destruction that will come if we continue to allow the spread of this cancer, we need a new vision of our future, new political and economic paradigms to guide us back to a future of new hopes and dreams. This should be relatively easy for us to do because the answers have always been with us. They are rooted in our finest traditions and lie deep in the ethical and moral roots of the American dream.
Unfortunately, for so many years, we have spent most of our time creating a labyrinth of lies and self-delusion, and we have become madder and madder as we face one dead end after another. It seems to me that this is what the myth of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth is all about. The Minotaur is the truth that gores us because we do not have the courage to face the truth. The truth is that our future is dead in the womb if we continue on this path, and we don’t find our way out of this labyrinth of illusions and lies. So, I ask, In a true democracy would we vote for this?
In A True Democracy Would We Vote For This?
If this was a true democracy where the American people at all levels of government could make their own laws and repeal laws that the legislature has passed that do not serve the common good, would we vote for an economic system that has the highest levels of income and wealth inequality in the industrial world, and, at the same time, has the lowest levels of social mobility of any developed country except the United Kingdom and Italy? Or in other words, would you vote for an economic system where 20% of the population controls 80% of the wealth and income in the country, and 10% of the population own it all.
No!
If this was a truly a direct and participatory democracy, would we vote for an economic system where the heirs to the Walmart fortune are paid $1.56 million dollars an hour for doing nothing except for having been born, while at the same time, Walmart employees make $7 dollars an hour? And this is only one example of the emerging aristocracy of inherited wealth and power in America that is passing our life blood on from one generation to another, feeding off us even when we are dead.
If this was a true democracy where the American people at all levels of government can make their own laws and repeal laws that the legislature has passed that do not serve the common good, would we vote for an economic system where corporations are wealthier and more powerful than most nation states, and, despite the fact that they dwarf the average American, they are recognized as legal “persons” with the same rights and freedoms as you and me as citizens of the United States, but they have none of the responsibilities, and they are devoid of any feelings or empathy? Would you vote for an economic system dominated by these Frankenstein like Leviathans that are certifiably insane sociopaths capable of committing mass murder?
Absolutely Not!
If this was a truly a direct and participatory democracy, would you vote for an economic system that at its heart is about blood sacrifice, and its ultimate expression of “creative destruction” is the massive bloodletting of war where millions upon millions are sacrificed just to keep the system going?
If this was a true democracy where the American people at all levels of government can make their own laws and repeal laws that the legislature has passed that the American people deem to not serve the common good, would you vote for an economic system that must continually grow or it will die and has become a cancerous growth that is consuming the planet, forcing every living thing into decline? Forests are shrinking, water tablets falling, soil eroding, wetlands disappearing, fisheries collapsing, range land deteriorating, rivers running dry, temperatures rising, coral reefs dying, and plant and animal species disappearing. Bottom line, would you vote for and economic system that is killing us all?
Never!
So, what is the economic alternative to mass suicide? In part one of the New American Revolution and the following excerpts we will outlined a blueprint for a political revolution that will transform politics in America and give the American people the instrumentality to transform our economy into an economic democracy. In part two of the New American Revolution we will define what we mean by economic democracy and how we will attain it. Essentially we are creating a new paradigm that is totally unique yet rooted in our finest traditions.
Author's Note - I have made available to you from Smashwords a Freedom for Free Edition of Learn or Die: The New American Revolution where you can pay what you want for the book or nothing at all. It's free. I'm doing this because I believe I have found the answer for all of us.
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