Most people fantasized famine, Blade Runner style societies, nuclear holocaust. Others maybe fantasized Star Wars chapter 2, once its counterpart, the soviet economy, died or was killed with Plutonium, in chapter 1. Few would believe that Capitalism would die in Washington, and in a peaceful meeting that counted among its attendees the president of the USA, prime ministers and premiers from the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and others. Probably many of them will applaud at the end of that meeting. Who could predict that moment one year ago or in 1945? I would not miss such a historic, glorious and funny moment if I were in your shoes.
Capitalism had a vigorous beginning in England, two centuries ago. People from every corner of the world attended business meetings to raise capital in order to acquire vapour engines, machinery, coal, factories, with such capital. To be used to pay wages, to sell, to produce, to acquire more, to sell more, to produce faster, to raise fresh capital faster, more, more, more, faster, faster, faster in a race against time and against the history of humankind where everything needs its own, unique time to cook. But Capital represented most of the power, even then. At that time some people from Liverpool chanted All you need is capital, while others in America replied Capital is in the air. That air was polluted with Capital but also with smoke from the factories of Liverpool, New York, Manchester, London, Hamburg, etc. Politicians told poor workers (politely called citizens from that time forward) go to work, go to bed, go to work, go to bed, like the tick-tock of a clock. Years later, in America, around 1980 other politicians added "go shopping !" . And, at its peak, we had the final macroeconomic theory of Capitalism "go to work, go shopping, go to bed". Which sickness could murder such a perfect clock? A crisis from 1968 to 1973 gave the first sign. From global charming the Capitalist world moved to global warning. People in Liverpool chanted "All you need is love," and the Americans replied "Love is in the air". But pollution in the air finally gave way to global warming after 200 years producing smoke in Liverpool and Chicago that Asians, Africans and Latinamericans had to suffer silently for 200 years. Kissinger asked Mao to integrate China in the global economy and the Soviet Union and USA were signing treaties to reduce weapons. The little human being asked itself why not "make love not war" instead of "go to work, go shopping, go to bed"? The world woke up in October 1973 and went to the warm factories, then shopping and then to bed, over and over like clockwork, as the capitalists advised, orders came top-down. Was "make love, not war" just a dream? Not really. In Vietnam and then years later in Iraq and Afghanistan, Capitalism realized the hidden cost of wars, trillions of dollars into the trash can, millions of human beings dead, and years lost. Asia invented a new way to raise capital, without stock markets, without wars. Just exports, foreign surplus, state owned corporations and sovereign wealth funds. Capitalists in Europe and America still believed that media and propaganda was more powerful than actual Capital, ironic. Capitalists became speculators hunting like dogs anyplace under the heaven where their capital could make a profit. It made them realize that Asians were not poor dogs but people who know how to raise capital but in a different way. Capital was no longer the source of power and progress. The ancient song All you need is Capital was forgotten and confined to the history books of economics. Using a stronger propagandist message than even the capitalist media produced, Paulson and Bernanke sang the Washington circus instead of the Scarborough fair, in order to raise $700bn from the workers to buy troubled assets. Once they realized they had the wrong lyrics, they decided to take healthy stake in banks as the boy from Liverpool did and finally sat in a chair listening to those capitalists who came in one by one and down the row, asking for a little rescue plan (any billions for me Sir, please? am I too big to fail, Sir?). And China decided to build railways, roads, power plants, etc. like a bridge over troubled waters, the sounds of silence was all that could be heard on the other side of the Pacific. $700bn was useless. As the Japanese had decided years ago, to build a sovereign wealth fund was useless. What can we do with such amount of money except to keep it in our foreign reserves?. As the Chinese had realized with their $1.8 trillions, Saudia, Singapore, the little states in the Gulf. They all realised that Capital was useless. Two centuries ago had a vigorous beginning, now it is time to die a sweet death. Capital is no longer the source of power and therefore Capitalism is dead. This weekend in Washington the bigger capitalists countries gather together with a few emerging economies that practice socialism with local characteristics, development from below, or other theories that Karl Marx would applaud and join. The party is over. Let us release the feeding tubes and let the patient die sweetly within two or three years. A new system is rising like a phoenix out of the ashes. A rescue plan that has already proved it can grow two digits along decades and can rescue hundreds of millions out of poverty. The little human being who makes the world go around just wants a nice job, decent wages, a family, good friends, some entertainment from time to time and to feel that they do their best with their life. While the clock still goes tick-tock for us. Dynasties come and go, empires come and go, political systems come and go, economic systems come and go. Only clocks remain, always whispering us make love not war, tick-tock, make love not war. Chinese features http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXqSPJpuDBM Western features http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFmuOtKrBc Latinamerican features http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85X3ZGwYtk Let us enjoy the gathering in Washington this weekend. A civilization dies, long life to the new civilization Peace and best wishes. Xi . Sources and praise to those who rise the early signs and predicted all this: The Beatles. All you need is love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxTpsIVzzo John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air (1978) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNC0kIzM1Fo Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYQaD2CAi9A Bridge over troubled waters Simon & Garfunkel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFruKvAq8PQ Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel (live sound) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZGWQauQOAQ My gratitude to J. Livingstone, without her help my thoughts would have not become meaningful English words. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
