[Marxism] Finance Capital and the Real Global Pirates

[David Walsh <davidrail68@xxxxxxxxx>]

byÂLarry Pinkney

from:Âwww.blackcommentator.com

Conventional wisdomÂhas it that the finance capitalists particularly in the 
United States and Europe today are anxiously about the business of trying to 
prevent imminent global financial collapse of their own making. In fact it is 
the opposite that is true.

Neo-liberal economics is nothing more than the watch word for the piracy 
against the peoples of this nation and the world. Finance capital and its 
purveyors, have without a doubt, become the most dangerous and deceptive 
economic vultures on the global scene today, bent upon continuing to be the 
undeserving recipients of criminal financial bail outs given them by the very 
government/s (especially in the United States) that they have in reality taken 
over (at the expense of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples) 
ultimately to the tune of trillions of dollars via ongoing fraud and deception.

It is no coincidence thatÂfinance capitalÂhas and is horribly serving as the 
Pandoraâs Box which subordinates decent jobs, housing, education, 
environmental-friendly industrial development, while engaging in outsourcing 
the labor force while simultaneously reducing workerâs wages in this nation 
and globally. None of this is coincidental. This is all about the modern day 
finance capitalists taking the money and running with it. These are the real 
pirates of today, led by the elite corporate Wall Street barons and economic 
vultures.



This is precisely why the purveyors of finance capital have supported the 
so-called âshock doctrineâ mis-school of economics. It is about 
perpetuating neo-liberal economics which is steeped in debt oriented economies 
(which are essentially unproductive) rather than equity oriented economies 
(which would be by far fairer to everyday people and enormously more productive 
both individually and collectively). The âshock doctrineâ of the 
neo-liberalÂschool of economicsÂis by its very nature an anathema to the 
economic, political, and social well being of the masses of people in the 
United States and throughout the world. It is geared towards further 
financially enriching the elite purveyors of finance capital while 
economically, socially, and politically emaciating the overwhelming majority of 
Black, White, Brown, and Red peoples.

Think about it. This is why presently in the midst of the beginnings of the 
worst economic melt down since theÂGreat Depression, theÂBarack ObamaÂregime 
ridiculously and whimsically urges the people to spend, spend, and spend some 
more; spend like thereâs no tomorrow! Remember, the vulture purveyors of 
theÂfinance capital componentÂof neo-liberal economics are all about taking 
capital that is not theirs, spending capital that they donât actually have, 
and infusing fake money into an economy which is already spiraling 
downwards,-increasingly out of control-due to none other than these very same 
antics to begin with. Of course these tactics are euphemistically and quite 
misleadingly referred to as the so-called free market.



Expect continued misleading rhetoric from Barack Obama and his regime. For 
fundamentally that is essentially all that you will get: rhetoric. The fact is 
that, notwithstanding this endless obfuscating rhetoric, structurally and 
systemically, Barack Obama is demonstratively following the same course of his 
predecessorÂGeorge W. Bush.

Upon further and closer consideration of these slash and burnÂeconomic 
policiesÂfrom the neo-liberal school of economics it becomes clear as to how 
very important continued U.S. military adventurism, bullying, and wars abroad 
actually are. The fact is that these slash and burn U.S. economic policies can 
only be propped up globally through the threat of and/or outrightÂmilitary 
force. Just as such policies serve only the relative few elite of this nation, 
so it is that globally (i.e. inside other nations) the same holds true. Much of 
the âAmericanâ citizenry remains today, the cannon fodder of the U.S. 
Empireâs military machine, and unfortunately so does much of the world as its 
victims.



While the U.S. corporate ânewsâ media banters on about so-called 
âpiratesâ on some far off shores elsewhere in the world, it is important to 
keep in mind that the real and most devastating, deceitful, and amoral 
âpiratesâ today are those who are mercilessly fleecing the hopes, dreams, 
and very lives of everyday people right here in this nation and indeed 
globally. The blood sucking vultures and barons ofÂWall Street, to whom 
theÂcorporate mediaÂis a willing hand maiden, are the global pirates of this 
century, and like the pirates of ages past - their ill gotten treasures must be 
retaken, expropriated, and returned to the peoples of the world!

We must not underestimate the role of economics in our struggle to bring about 
real systemic political change. We must understand the central role that it 
plays in our struggle for the life of this planet and for serving human needs 
versus human greed.

If we are to break the spiral, and we must, nothing less will do than total 
systemic change - real change, for in this is our actual hope. Inside the 
United States, the Republicrats (i.e. the Democrat andÂRepublican parties) 
must ultimately be relegated to the infamous dust bins of history, though even 
that is too good for them after all their hypocrisy and the pain, misery and 
devastation that they have caused, and continue to causes, countless millions.

Onward then in our struggle for real systemic change. Black, White, Brown, Red, 
and Yellow peoples together: ONWARDâ




      
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