The Year of Living Dangerously
Real news Network interview on is Capitalism dead. Near the end you will here the comment of how we are living dangerously.There is some Marxian analysis in here also on how economics leads to Revolutions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy5iG...&feature=feedu
Capitalism has been around for 5,000 years.
It's not dead -- or even wounded. Humans living dangerously is not new, that's well over 5,000 years old as well -- only the predators and jungles change a bit. :D
Marx, OTOH is dead and though his system and aberrations of it still live, sort of, they're on shaky legs simply because people can be greedy and just won't play fair. Every system of nominal socialism over the last 50 centuries has failed and has generally done so catastrophically but folks will keep trying... :rolleyes:
Those failures are proof that capitalism won't die. Instead of trying to replace it -- which is futile -- great thinkers ought to concentrate on ways to improve it instead of wasting time on something that human foibles will not permit to attain lasting success. :wry:
I never cease to be amazed at the number of folks who want to make frontal assaults instead of figuring out what and where the flaws are and using those as leverage to obtain lasting as opposed to possible temporary improvements. Many of those folks want level playing fields, forgetting the earth has very few level spots and if man makes one, he needs to watch it or Mother earth will unlevel it for him. They also want people to be equal -- that's not going to happen until we can manufacture them. Greed, energy, ambition and ego intertwine in too many ways for perfect or even much improved social equilibrium to ever be attained. Instead of trying to replace a natural tendency with one that is unnatural we should try to assist Mama Nature and do it her way...
Green Beret Economic/Special Warfare Stuff...Part 1
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Ken White
I never cease to be amazed at the number of folks who want to make frontal assaults instead of figuring out what and where the flaws are and using those as leverage to obtain lasting as opposed to possible temporary improvements.
I was tempted to say so you agree completely with Marx:eek: But I think you would want a little more detail. So I will break it done in parts. First there were 2 Marx (probably done intentionally by the Commies) There was Marx the economist and Marx the social revolutionary. One wrote On Capitol and the other wrote the Communist Manifesto(which was probably more Engels than Marx,some evidence to that but no real proof).
Some back round on how I came to this conclusion. My main mission in life at the time I joined the 82nd back in 72 was to find the Billy Jack Green Beret manual and to find out what these Green Beret guys really did. I accomplished both reasonably well IMO. When I went through the one minute guerrilla warfare course I had to stay behind for 2 extra days after the problem was over(for reasons I want go into:D) but I spent a great deal of time with a Team Sergeant who had been doing his job since.....a long time. Behind an excellent Fish Camp he drank a lot of beer and I ate a lot of cheeseburgers and drank a lot of coffee. And he told me to read Karl Marx for basic grounding on what is happening in the world and a lot of other things as well. So as soon as I got back to Bragg I beat feet down to the Special Forces bookstore and got a copy of the Commie Manifest but had to go to the Main Post Library to get On Capitol. To very different people wrote those books even though there is some basic commonality in both of them.
So in order to understand the enemy I came away with 3 main rules of Commie Revolutionary Warfare(Living Dangerously). Rule 2 is that the Commies believed the best way to take over a country is to destroy the Economy, this makes Capitalism(capitalism is banking) extremely vulnerable because of our belief that if the Government acts to protect the economic well being of the people we are all turning into Commies by default as opposed to actually stopping the threat from gaining hold in America. As you point out it is out vulnerable flank and they are exploiting it to this day, except now they have religion thrown in with it. End of part 1
Part the Uno noted and agreed wif...
Quote:
Originally Posted by
slapout9
I was tempted to say so you agree completely with Marx:eek:
With respect to what you quoted, yep, I do. BUT that sin't "completely." :D
Quote:
First there were 2 Marx (probably done intentionally by the Commies) There was Marx the economist and Marx the social revolutionary. One wrote On Capitol and the other wrote the Communist Manifesto(which was probably more Engels than Marx,some evidence to that but no real proof).
Agree it was probably more attributable the guy from the even more wealthy Engels family. While I don't agree with Marx on capital and its evils, he wasn't totally out to lunch economically speaking -- politically, he was just overly hopeful. People can't or won't go that route for very long, greed and generational change get involved...
Quote:
...had to go to the Main Post Library to get On Capitol.
If you'de been there three years earlier, we might have bumped into each other -- I spent a lot of time there... :wry:
Quote:
Rule 2 is that the Commies believed the best way to take over a country is to destroy the Economy, this makes Capitalism(capitalism is banking) extremely vulnerable because of our belief that if the Government acts to protect the economic well being of the people we are all turning into Commies by default as opposed to actually stopping the threat from gaining hold in America. As you point out it is out vulnerable flank and they are exploiting it to this day, except now they have religion thrown in with it. End of part 1
Education. True on the economy and on religion (or strong secularity...) -- and they had success in getting us to harm our own economic system by properly leveraging our flaws.
However, they also spent much time and effort on corrupting the western education systems. Due to our decentralized approach, they had a great deal of success here as was true in the UK. France and Germany with more centralized systems were able to blunt most of the efforts of the KGB et.al. with respect to dimunition of the educational systems. Note that education attack had and has -- and will continue to have -- follow on second, third and more order economic effects as well... :mad: