Hi All:
Re: What do the (Quebec-protesting) kids think they know?
I've been trying to get a handle on the above subject.
I have noticed that the "kids" are interspersed with people from all walks
of life, albeit, outnumbered by the kids.
I reading between the lines, What I thing the kids are concerned about is
the issue of property and it's internationalization. That is, transfering
it beyond the control of soverign governments that not only recognise the
property rights of foreign owners, but give (all) property (commodities)
them precedence over the human rights of people they purportedly represent.
I recall that in Jamaica international corporations owned and utilised land
devoted to export of food. Native Jamaicans also owned land devoted to the
growing of food for local consumption.
The IMF consistently refused investment loans to local farmers who grew
food for local consumption. At the same time IMF loans were available for
growing food for export. Consequently, Jamacians were made dependant on
food that had to be imported.
Another historically verifiable tactic of foreign prioperty owners is to
buy land and take it out of production, thereby denying the local
population its use. At the same time, taxation of fallow land is made
negligable to assist the foreign corporations "bottom line."
The above has been the practice, especially in the Central American banana
growing countries. Most recently the Mugabe Gov in Zimbabwe has opened the
"fallow land" to the nationals to the dismay of the large (international?)
landowners.
When people own land and grow for their own and neighnoures use, it cuts
into the profits of the food importers and also cuts into the available
labour force that international corporations need to keep in surplus, to
drive down the price.
Historically, trade has been about exporting the "surplus to local needs
goods" and importing the surpluses of other locals. The new international
trading model is not needs driven but money driven.
Since we know that money is not a real value but an abstract value.
Further, that once borrowed at interest money cannot (in the aggregate) be
repaid, as it then becomes an engine in its own right. And even further,
since an abstract value lends itself to manipulation (corruption) much more
readily than real (utilitarian-goods) value, it is reasonable that that
which is most easily corrupted, will be the most corrupted.
I think that is the crux of the kids complaint. That the National gov. will
enforce the foreign property (food-shelter) rights as a priority over the
human (food-shelter) rights of its nationals. Not only do that, but tax the
nationals to pay the police (army) that will enforce the foreign property
rights!!
Commodification of goods has been around since the invention of money. By
manipulating money, all else can be manipulated, even people.
"The intellectual faculties however are not of themselves sufficient to
produce external action; they require the aid of physical force, THE
DIRECTION AND COMBINATION OF WHICH ARE WHOLLY AT THE DISPOSAL OF MONEY,
THAT MIGHTY SPRING BY WHICH THE TOTAL FORCE OF HUMAN ENERGIES IS SET IN
MOTION."
Augustus Boeckh; Translated; "The Public Economy of Athens", P 7 Book I.
London, 1828
