It's not
only the rapid technological progress, especially in the field of
hyper-automation and Artificial Intelligence, that makes capitalism
unable to deliver a viable future to the societies. It's also the
fact that the dead-end it creates, produces false alternatives like
Donald Trump.
As already
pointed:
With Trump
administration taken
over by Goldman Sachs, nothing can surprise us,
anymore. The fairy tale of the 'anti-establishment' Trump who would
supposedly fight for the interests of the forgotten - by the system -
Americans, was collapsed even before Trump election.
What's quite
surprising, is how fast the new US president - buddy of the
plutocrats, is offering 'earth and water' to the top 1% of the
American society, as if they had not already enough at the expense of
the 99%. His recent 'achievement', was to sign for more deregulation
in favor of the banking mafia that ruined the economy in 2008,
destroyed millions of working class Americans and sent waves of
financial destruction all over the world. Europe is still on its
knees because of the neoliberal destruction and cruel austerity.
Richard
Wolff explains:
If you don't
want the Trumps of this world to periodically show up and scare
everybody, you've got to do something about the basic system that
produces the conditions that allow a Trump to get to the position he
now occupies.
We need a
better politics than having two parties compete for the big
corporations to love them, two parties to proudly celebrate
capitalism. Real politics needs an opposition, people who think we
can do better than capitalism, we ought to try, we ought to discuss
it, and the people should have a choice about that. Because if you
don't give them that, they are gonna go from one extreme to another,
trying to find a way out of the status quo that is no longer
acceptable.
I'm amazed
that after half a century in which any politician had accepted the
name 'Socialist' attached to him or her, thereby committing,
effectively, political suicide, Mr. Sanders has shown us that the
world has really changed. He could have that label, he could accept
the label, he could say he is proud of the label, and millions and
millions of Americans said 'that's fine with us', he gets our vote.
We will not be the same nation going forward, because of that. It is
now openly possible to raise questions about capitalism, to talk
about its shortcomings, to explore how we can do better.
Indeed, as
the blog pointed
before the latest US elections:
Bernie has
the background and the ability to change the course of the US
politics. He speaks straightly about things buried by the
establishment, as if they were absent. Wall Street corruption,
growing inequality, corporate funding of politicians by lobbies. He
says that he will break the big banks. He will provide free health
and education for all the American people. Because of Sanders,
Hillary is forced to speak about these issues too. And subsequently,
this starts to shape again a fundamental ideological difference
between Democrats and Republicans, which was nearly absent for
decades.
But none of
this would have come to surface if Bernie didn't have the support of
the American people. Despite that he came from nowhere, especially
the young people mobilized and started to spread his message using
the alternative media. Despite that he speaks about Socialism, his
popularity grows. The establishment starts to sense the first cracks
in its solid structure. But Bernie is only the appropriate tool. It's
the American people who make the difference.
No matter
who will be elected eventually, the final countdown for the
demolition of this brutal system has already started and it's
irreversible. The question now is not if, but when it will collapse,
and what this collapse will bring the day after. In any case, if
people are truly united, they have nothing to fear.
So, what
kind of system do we need to replace the obsolete capitalism? Do we
need a kind of Democratic Socialism that would be certainly more
compatible to the rapid technological progress? Write your thoughts
and ideas in the comments below.
want to stop capitalism ? the first strike must be on its "cultural" safeguards.
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