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An Illustration on the PDF of this article dates it to 2006 but we could be wrong.
https://azinelibrary.org/approved/kapital-class-and-workers-1.pdf
The roots of corporative-fascism were laid with the expansion of monopoly capital into the giant cartels, corporation and interlocking trusts. The
owners of the largest share of a nation’s GNP will always control the political life and government of the state. Monopoly capital is corporative (fascism).
George L. Jackson, Blood in My Eye
In the advanced Western industrial and technological nation-states, kapitalism reigns as the method of operations on which material advancement and wealth is obtained. In order for kapitalism to have power there must be a strong military force needed to forcefully take over other nation-states that have the needed raw materials to fuel the machines of kapital, thus changing the lifestyles and living practices of the inhabitants in the land in which the raw materials rest. In order to achieve this, ideologies, philosophies, and political schemes must be drilled into the minds of people in order to create the right amount of hostility where the people will accept their nation-state’s aggression toward another in the name of something; albeit democracy, communism, religious context or some other verbiage that can be effectively applied to sway millions of minds to accept such bloody aggression. Kapitalism is nothing more than the overproduction of things to be sold, to exploit others and to control the economic life-blood of nation-states by the use of war. War does nothing but bring death and destruction to ordinary people, usually for a cause that’s not their own, but that of the kapitalist elite. The propaganda machine echoes—through the media—fear and mistrust so that aggression becomes the optimum desire (a.k.a. ‘preemptive strikes’), which is sanctioned as “national security measures” or for “the national interest”, by law. But whose law? What constitutes what law is?
When we look at this soberly, law is what any dominate ruling authority says it is. The kapitalists create laws in order to control and manipulate the working class, and also, by absorbing the natural resources of the world while subjecting you and I to work (for our living) to produce and make things from raw materials absorbed. The ownership of land, factories, transportation, telecommunications etc., is concentrated in the hands of a small minority who are members of the kapitalist class, who, for the most part, are unknown. However, there are names of individuals (whom we’ve all heard of) who are a part of the minority-elite of kapital’s excesses, but the vast majority in this class are unknown and are bigger and stronger (financially and politically) than those whom we’ve heard or read about. For example, you have the inheritors of old and established wealth; descendants of industrial kapitalist pioneers, slave merchants and dealers, and other cheats. These are the ones who make laws and shape policies for the working class to abide by and from the greed of wealth comes war. These wars (like the war in Iraq and Afghanistan), are not the peoples wars. Those who are in or who have fought in the military for the kapitalist nation-states, are merely cogs in the wheel to be used as sacrificed by and for, the rich and powerful.
Todays’ military action against Iraq has nothing to do with Saddam Hussein primarily, but everything to do with the region, which was also the real reason the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan—to be able to have easy access to the oil in the Caspian Sea. The world has been sold in this “war on terrorism” or “fundamental Islam” concept. The fact is, the more oil obtained, than the more people are used to produce things; and the more things that are produced, the more consumption there is, and the ability to control the market to purchase what they have produced by their own labor, but at a higher price for consumption than it costs to produce the particular thing the worker seeks to obtain. We have become woefully conditioned into deceiving ourselves to believe that we have something fundamentally in common with those we’ve sold our labor to, because we are paid for our labor at various prices, creating classes among workers economically, socially and politically. Yet, the real enemy to all workers and ordinary people are the kapitalists who sit back unchallenged and laughing at the condition we’re in, and all the division and sub-divisions we’ve created among ourselves by effectively using the instrument of ownership and class, while pretending to be for one and all, but applying kapitalist so-called “laws” to obtain, while the kapitalist
elite use theses laws they created to keep us in line. Yet, the law is the prime instrument used to ensure class domination. But let us look at how kapital has
manipulated other countries as well. Under the precept of the “Free Trade Agreement”, Jordan has joined in partnership with the U.S. In manufacturing the clothing where they make specific types of clothing for big corporate chain stores like J.C. Penny, Target and Wal-Mart but using predominately all women from Sri Lanka in India. These women work in horrific conditions, with minimum wages anywhere from fifteen to twenty-one hour days, often many hundred of miles away from home. In Columbia, the Pastrana Government has obtained over $1 billion for mainly military aid. None of that money trickles down to the average citizens, who live in serious poverty.Since January 2003, Amerikkkan troops (Special Forces) were deployed in the eastern provinces of Arauca, under the guise of protecting oil pipelines, as thousands of people were forced to move from their homes and off their land. Whose interest is being served here? It sure isn’t the peoples interests. Meantime, Coca-Cola’s plant managers have been using paramilitary groups to kill and intimidate union organizers who want a fair wage and better working conditions
This is the year of kapitalist globalization and expansion built on technological and military superiority. In fact, all of this … the war with Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., are but a continuation of over two hundred years of war between European states and Amerikkka’s restless motivation for economic power and control of markets by the exploitation of populations, with racial overtones as justification. So, what has kapitalism brought us? At this stage it has only succeeded to bring varying degrees over poverty, insecurity, racism, classism, aggressive environmental disasters, global warming and lots of premature death.
Kapitalism is the most dominate mode of wealth production worldwide and growing. The only way we will defeat the spread of kapitalism and its adverse effects is to better arm ourselves with the belief that we can make a difference. Kapitalism cannot go anywhere unless we, the workers of the world, allow it to happen. There is not one factory, machine, ship, plane, railroad, car, refinery etc., that can operate without the workers. If we can only practice what we say by using action, where no one participates in any sector of work that’s deemed harmful to us all … kapitalism and its elite and governments would cease to exist! Perhaps this sounds rather simplistic, but often times it is the most simple thing that makes the greatest impact. However, to arrive at this point—to reach this stage of “collective consciousness” we must be able to individually recognize how we have been conditioned into seeing one another as economic rivals and competitors and changing how we view the kapitalist system and those in power.