[Marxism] Lies, Injustice, and the Capitalist Way: We're on the highway to Hell--Don't Stop Us!

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

Lies, Injustice And The Capitalist Way: We’re On The Highway To Hell—
Don’t Stop Us!

By Jason Miller


30 December, 2007
Countercurrents.org

We “Free World” capitalistic Westerners are a loathsome lot—or to put  
it more crudely, we suck. When one considers how degenerate we are  
from a collective standpoint, it is difficult to suppress intense  
feelings of disgust and contempt. There are many layers to our  
repugnant, depraved, and “beloved” capitalism, a socioeconomic system  
which ultimately furnishes the members of its upper echelon with de  
facto licenses to exploit, plunder, and murder with impunity. Problem  
is that as one peels back each successive layer hoping to find some  
purity, one finds a more profound rot.

We have fouled our own environment to the point that recovery and  
renewal may be impossible; we eradicate non-human animals at an  
estimated rate of 100 species per day; we slaughter millions upon  
millions of human beings in wars of imperial aggression driven by  
capitalism’s insatiable demand for resources and market expansion; we  
torture and slaughter billions of non-human animals to please our  
palates; and we insist upon imposing a system of infinite demand upon  
an all too finite planet.

Yet despite our multi-century “bender” and its obvious consequences,  
and despite the rational, egalitarian, just, and sustainable  
alternative which sprung from the minds of Marx and Engels (along  
with countless others who have contributed to the evolution of their  
brainchild), we cling to an abomination whose chief benefactors (the  
ruling class and their sycophantic propagandists in the mainstream  
media) deserve to be publicly flogged and then imprisoned in the  
gulag they devised to control the lower classes and black population.


Our collective selfishness, self-absorption, narcissism, greed, and  
mean-spiritedness are psychic malformations wrought by the wretched  
systemic exploitation we hold so dear to our withered, Grinch-like  
hearts. Smug and self-satisfied in our deeply rooted belief in the  
idiocy that despicable character traits like greed and selfishness  
can be harnessed in such a way that they provide virtuous means to  
benevolent ends, we revel in the delusion that the tremendous effort  
necessary to nurture the human spirit is a waste of time. The uglier  
and coarser we become on the inside, the greater our likelihood of  
achieving “success” by the standards of our soul-murdering society.  
Our worship of a man like Donald Trump as a cultural icon  
demonstrates how spiritually perverse we have become.

Apologists argue that “true capitalism” doesn’t exist because we have  
a “mixed economy.” It isn’t enough that one of the most affluent  
societies in history has 3.5 million homeless human beings, 46  
million people without a viable means to attain proper healthcare,  
deteriorating public infrastructures, a wealth gap that would prick  
the consciences of the Robber Barons, larcenous CEO compensation,  
economic apartheid, and trillions of dollars of public money devoted  
to funding a murderous military machine that serves to ensure that  
our bourgeois parasites have uninterrupted access to the resources  
and markets they crave. According to wild-eyed libertarians and our  
blood-sucking plutocracy, we still need to root out the “socialist”  
elements that are contaminating our “sacred” free market. You know,  
that “free market” that inflicted abject misery upon the masses in  
the United States during the Gilded Age, throughout South America  
under the tutelage of the human pile of feces known as Milton  
Friedman (may Satan torment his soul), and in present day China. The  
excesses, irrationalities, and corrupt nature of capitalism are  
destroying the world. So let’s implement a more extreme form. What a  
brilliant notion!


Full: http://www.countercurrents.org/miller301207.htm
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