POLAND 20 YEARS AFTER CAPITALISM: COMMUNISM IS NOW A FREE CHOICE The whole situation in Eastern Europe is poorly understood. The end of the Cold War was not universally meant (by all of its architects) to be the end of communism. In fact it was only meant to end the increasingly deadly, threateningly apocalyptic, Cold War strangle hold and military state of tension. Soviet, Stalinist style, dictatorship is not definitive of state planned socialist variations on economic practices. In fact the Soviet tyranny and its iron grip on much of eastern Europe, has no real and valid relation to communist, or socialist economic practice. The one need never be assumed as being inevitable in relation to, or being equatable as being the same as the other. They are not the same thing. Much of Soviet extremism and political practice was a reaction caused by east west push and shove dominating two thirds of the 20th century.
United States led capitalism's ability to do what is right for humanity when costs exceed profits needs to be reassessed very carefully. They have had twenty years in which to prove their point and they have failed to remedy the larger part of the problems that the Cold War left in its wake. The Cold War had remained the excuse for not being able to, and for not having the fiscal means. If Capitalism cannot see its way to that remediation and rectification, finding the challenge too costly and preferring a worldwide economic downturn, of lasting impact and indefinite duration, then Capitalism truly is a dying system and another system must take over the task that Capitalism has failed in. That system might be a variant of socialist or it might even be communist, perhaps a mixture of whatever is pragmatic, but what it will not be is a Cold War tug of war, tearing apart the minds and spirits of Eastern Europe. Certainly not a tug of war that insists that Capitalism is the one and only answer to the world’s problems and pain. Freedom is now possible, and that freedom includes a free choice as to what economic system is implemented, what level of centralized planning, what amount of state ownership, how much intervention, and to what extent real value economics, where what needs to be done gets down regardless of the accounting of the costs and their profit margins, will be implemented. Freedom now means the reform of Capitalism, and radical changes to that system, to prevent further damage to humanity’s future, progress and survival. The wars of the 20th century combined with German Fascism and Soviet Cold War ideology, did their damage, and Capitalism has continued to take a horrendous toll. What is now necessary is for people who are free to choose, to be able to choose what is best for humanity and progress, not on the basis of a Soviet communist model or an American Capitalist model being forced upon them without any choice in regards to accepting or amending the rules to create a more viable and effective system than either side in the Cold War was able to offer. COLONEL GADDAFI’S DREAM: CAN HE REBUILD AFRICA ? Colonel Gaddafi has long been a dreamer of big dreams that found big opposition from those who seek to oppress and misuse Africa. It has the technical and productive ability to reclaim desert, grow enough food, desalinate water, remedy major sources of conflict including lack of modern non sectarian education, but it cannot and could not do so in the world of east west political confrontation and manipulation, inclusive of the utterly failing capitalist system. Can the alternative happen now ? Can Colonel Gaddafi actually turn vast areas of the African desert into agricultural paradise, transform salt water into drinking water, and raise the African continent up to a new level of cooperation where the continents problems can actually begin to be solved ? If the world economic crisis stands in the way of his dream, can he overcome that obstacle and get Africans to cooperate to change everything, by working together, with their existing resources, no longer stopped by the communist, Capitalist and sectarian warlords and slavers who have persisted in oppressing Africa’s progress ? LUDICROUS OBAMA GENEROSITY TO FAILED EXECUTIVES: Half a million dollars to an executive of a failed corporation is far too much profit paid out to those who have failed so badly. Remember that that is a cash ceiling, and does not take into account all the other perks and fringe benefits. Lesser persons than executives lose their jobs for one mistake, even if they are not guilty of making it. Executives seem to be immune from that fact, like demi-gods, paid the equivalent, in one year, of what can be more than 12 years before tax wages, for a lesser species, the beaten down and out worker. Why do we pay failure half a million when it could help 12 people survive another year ? Axe them. Axe them all. Haven’t they made enough mistakes, without being required to take any responsibility ? Besides that, anything above 100K in salary and base benefits, should be performance bonus, based on ethics and the financial health of the corporation. 500K is not enough incentive for most people to change the way they do business, when it is all being done so very very wrong. There are many who would jump at the chance of 100K jobs, who are qualified, ethical, and able to take on the responsibilities. Many educated, experienced, working people never see half that in a good year. FUNDING SCIENCE THAT BENEFITS THE ECONOMY: The BBC says: “The Science Minister, Lord Drayson, has suggested that more of the UK's research budget should be spent in areas that would benefit the economy.” Since when has it been proven that capitalist economics pursues research and development as to what is right and good for the future of humanity, rather than only what is profitable ? We can see by the extent of what has not been done and what is not being done, for the sake or right and good, that funding science for what benefits the economy would be a catastrophic error, worsening an already disastrous situation. Remember that television, as we know it, would never have been developed if a Russian, working a day job for an American corporation, had not spent his nights working on the project, without pay, in one of their laboratories. After all, the corporation thought there was no profit to be made in the development of television. DUNCAN FORGAN AND INTELLIGENT LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS: Duncan Forgan, a researcher in the UK, estimates a probable 31,513 other worlds where intelligent life could exist, somewhere out in space. The results of one mathematical estimation, but it does bring up an interesting point. I believe it is certain that there are intelligent extra-terrestrial species. Some more advanced than our own. What we must never assume is that superior intelligence makes a species friendly, and passive, rather than hostile and aggressive in relation to us. We can see how difficult it is with the same species, and with that species having interests in common, inclusive of its own survival on its own home planet. Clearly intelligence and technological progress do not provide a good prediction in regard to peace. The successful, surviving species, will be the the species capable to winning wars. The trick to the game of survival is to cooperate as a species on your own planet, overcoming ideological differences quickly enough, to build vessels capable of inter stellar space travel, and to develop new weapons directed not against their selves, but instead to be pointed at the enemy, out there in inter-stellar space. Eventually you do meet up with that enemy, and then you have to use everything you learned in all the previous millennia of your species evolution, to survive the next battle. The universe, species survival and continued species evolution, will ultimately go to the species that is able to put aside their own sectarian, ideological, differences, to work together cooperatively. Species that fight themselves, and wreak havoc on themselves will destroy themselves even before the enemy out there, gets to them, to finish them off. That ending could come from being found useless, and backward, as a species, proven unworthy for alliance with others who are already advancing their lines, and winning against their enemies. Robert Morpheal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
