| stewart_connor 2006-08-25, 4:24 pm |
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robbbbinhoodzorrro@hotmail.com wrote:
> "I do follow all the commandments already but what must I do to go to
> heaven?" and Jesus answered "You must give everything you own to the
> poor and follow me" and the rich man turned away.
>
>
> What Is Wrong With Capitalism (ie conservatism)
> - by Stewart Connor 4/13/05
>
> Capitalism has a broken concept at its core. But it is a concept that
> just about everyone has decided is the truth. The concept is
> "expediency"... "might makes right"... "nice guys finish last"... "The
> reason people obey the laws of man is because society will throw them
> in jail if they dont"...etc.
>
> These are all misunderstandings.
>
> As a result of all these misunderstandings people go along even though
> they see there is something vastly wrong... this is where expressions
> like: "Elephant in the room that everyone is pretending is not there."
> Or "The emperor has no clothes" are coming from.
>
> Capitalism, the fundamental thing that keeps people resigned to it is:
> "Nice guys finish last" so lets put a BAD GUY IN CHARGE. Let all the
> power be given to the greedy so that they wont have to worry about that
> and then we can be on their side... ie "the winner's side." Let the
> Bad guy run it all, since he is going to win anyway... GIVE THE DEVIL
> HIS DUE --> MAKE SATAN KING!!!
>
> Now this situation has been handed down to us over the centuries... the
> fight between the have nots and haves is not new. And in all the
> legends of heroes that have lasted, legends from Zorro, to Robin Hood,
> to George Lucas's Star Wars et al. it is the little guys over coming
> the big greedy (corporate) monsters that all people love... even rich
> people love these underdogs who represent the Good Guy in the "Battle
> between Good and Evil" because deep in their hearts they want to be the
> "good guy" too. As a result however, the existing powers that be, the
> "corporate" elites have always recognized the dangers to the very core
> of their philosphy of greed which is in control of the masses.
>
> ENTER the beginning founders of COMMUNISM ... Karl Marx et al. They
> came up with a theory of sharing all wealth: eg "From each according to
> his ability unto each according to his need"-- a defining phrase of the
> core meaning of the philosophy of Communism-- however average people
> not familiar with the history have often been polled as to where they
> think this famous phrase is found the majority say "The Bible"!!!
>
> Marx was no genius of politics... nor were most people back in those
> days... he had a simple idea that in order to end war and be fair to
> all men that all wealth should be shared.
>
> The problem is that this is an extremely POWERFUL IDEA and RIGHT AWAY
> THE CORPORATE ELITES OF CAPITALISM RECOGNIZED THAT THIS IDEA WAS ALONE
> THE SINGLE BIGGEST THREAT TO THEM!!!
>
> Thus Karl Marx and others had no idea the Pandora's Box he had opened.
> For instance in the 1950's in the United States, due to the
> Brainwashing of all the citizens (note not all people fall for this
> stuff but those in power WHO PAY OTHERS THEIR WAGES, DEMAND THAT THOSE
> WORKING FOR THEM RENOUNCE AND DECLARE THEY HATE THE IDEA OF
> COMMUNISM... Since most of these people have no idea what Communism is
> they have no problem renouncing it.... IT is like going up to someone
> who has never heard of God and telling them that you will pay them as
> long as they tell you they dont believe in God.) ... the 1950's in
> america had the single biggest (perhaps until today with W Bush)
> embarrassment exposing the crooks at the heart of U.S. government.
>
> However Marx, thinking that the beauty of his idea of all men being
> brothers and sharing all the wealth was all that was needed, DID NOT
> KNOW THAT HE HAD FOCUSSED ALL THE FEAR AND HATRED OF THE CORPORATE
> ELITES ON THAT SINGLE IDEA.
>
> Marx could not understand why people were not just accepting his right
> idea and turning away from the old concept of "each man for himself law
> of the jungle"(<--the underlying idea of capitalism: eg capitalists
> think that people must be punished and that is the only way to stop
> crime... but to this day most criminals never get caught... Just look
> in the whitehouse at the guys who took the world to war based on the
> lie of WMD's)
>
> One of the biggest methods used to brainwash people is superstition.
> The messages of Jesus, though even deeper than Karl Marx's idea, are
> not against Communism...
>
> Rather it is the Perversions of Religion, perversions used to keep
> people in fear of God rather than loving God, IT IS THESE PERVERSIONS
> OF JESUS'S MESSAGE ... SUPERSTITION!!!.. THAT ARE USED TO MANIPULATE
> PEOPLE... THE CORPORATE ELITES KNOW THIS AND HAVE EXTREME INFLUENCE
> OVER THE SUPERSTITIOUS MESSAGE BEING PUSHED ON PEOPLE FROM THE
> PULPIT--- not all Christian Religion is a perversion of Jesus's message
> ONLY THOSE THAT PROMOTE HATE FEAR VENGENCE MATERIALISM etc.... ie this
> is most preaching to some degree.
>
> The perversion of the Christian(and other religions which are used in
> the same way... SUPERSTITION) message is what frustrated Karl Marx in
> his efforts to spread the idea of "sharing all wealth with all people."
>
> Karl Marx at one point said "Religion is the opiate of the masses" The
> powers with all the money, with an established order of CLASS BASED ON
> MONEY are sorely afraid of this idea of Communism... they of course
> then twisted what Marx meant by his utterance about how religion is
> used as a SUPERSTITION TO MANIPULATE IGNORANT PEOPLE to say that Marx
> was against the Christianity ... but as I have explained COMMUNISM IS
> IN FACT A CORE IDEA OF CHRISTIANITY... THE APOSTLES WERE THE FIRST
> COMMUNISTS... THEY SHARED ALL MONEY AND WEALTH IN A COMMUNAL LIFE.
>
>
> The blind hatred of Communism is thus promoted in the Captilast led
> countries... and it must be pointed out as well that even countries
> that claim to be "Communist" are not... they are simply societies whose
> leaders used the beauty of the idea of communism to hypnotize followers
> into rebellions in order that dictatorships could be established...
> they then maintain leadership claiming they are communist when they are
> not(they are just another mask of the CAPITALIST IDEA. THOSE WITH THE
> MONEY BEING THOSE WHO ARE TRYING NOT TO SHARE THEIR WEALTH...thus they
> become dictatorships... this is to a large degree an explanation of
> what is going on in China and why the US Corporate-Elites are now
> getting along so well with China even though they used to claim China
> was the Evil COMMUNISM it never was Communist only a dictatorship)...
> this is true of all countries that claim they are communist.... though
> some are less of a perversion of communism than others.
>
> But in the USA the blind hatred of the IDEA OF COMMUNISM was pounded
> into american youth from early ages... Of course large segments of
> these same children are aware enough to recognise when the system is
> trying to brainwash them...for some this even has the reverse effect of
> making them study the idea in depth... FOR MOST OF THE YOUNG IT JUST
> LEADS TO DEEP CYNICISM OF ALL THINGS THEY SEE IN THE CORRUPT
> GOVERNMENT!!! but they are too lazy to look deepy at some of the things
> I am talking about here.
>
> This hatred and fear of the idea of COMMUNISM led to the clearly
> hypocritcal rise in the McArthyism politics of the 1950's McArthy and
> the FBI et al were clearly the real criminals and the public saw this
> in overwhelming images... LIARS WERE RUNNING THE SHOW in the US,
> "patriotism was a sham"... ie this is a fundamental truth of a
> capitalist controlled society that the CORPORATE-ELITES DONT WANT TO
> LET PEOPLE KNOW SINCE THEY USE THESE METHODS "Patriotism" and
> "Religion"TO MANIPULATE THE MASSES... so McArthyism quickly (quick in
> termsof the grand scale of social change) McArthyism quickly died.
>
> SO WHAT IS WRONG WITH CAPITALISM???
> READ AGAIN WHAT I HAVE SAID...
> ... CAPITALISM IS WHAT IS THE BAD GUY IN THIS BRIEF HISTORY.
>
> But the idea of just becoming COMMUNIST clearly is abused as well...
> thus all countries claiming they are "Communist" are nothing more than
> dictatorships... dictatorships that were put in power by hyponotizing
> people into rebellions motivated and manipulated by the BEAUTY OF THE
> IDEA OF COMMUNISM. (in a similar way Bush manipulates people to follow
> him by manipulating and perverting the beautiful and powerful idea of
> Christianity... until what Bush is peddling is the exact oppostie of
> Christianity)
>
> Thus the ideas of Freedom that the US Pilgrims and Settlers came to
> amercia to find (Communism would not be invented for a few hundred
> years later) needs to embrace the BEAUTY OF THE IDEA OF COMMUNISM ...
> COMMUNISM IN THE IDEAL IS A CHRISTIAN WAY OF LIFE!!!
>
> This is why the idea of Socialism came to be(and also why the CORPORATE
> ELITES FEAR SOCIALISM EVEN MORE THAN COMMUNISM) Socialism is an attempt
> to bring the idea of sharing of wealth into the captialist controlled
> government without a rebellion but simply using the aparatus of the
> existing government... BUT MAKING THAT EXISTING GOVERNMENT BE HONEST...
> When that government claims it is FOR THE PEOPLE... then socialism
> says: "Well lets make sure you are FOR THE PEOPLE ... AND NOT THAT YOU
> ARE LYING AND REALLY FOR THE COPRPORATE WEALTHY CONTROLLERS WHO HAVE
> ALWAYS MAINTAINED CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT."
>
> What is wrong with Capitalism is that these Rich Privileged wont
> comprehend that their belief that they must maintain this state is
> hurting them as much as it hurts us all.... Recall that parable of
> Jesus to the rich man who said to Jesus "I do follow all the
> commandments already but what must I do to go to heaven?" and Jesus
> answered "You must give everything you own to the poor and follow me"
> and the rich man turned away.
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