The difficult conversation we need to have
In the Covid debacle, all roads lead back to capital
The conversation among critical thinkers over the last four years has gone something like this:
1. ‘Fauci committed crimes against humanity.’
The Real Anthony Fauci, Children’s Health Defense, The Highwire.
2. ‘Yes, Fauci is bad but he’s just a stooge for Pharma.’
I make this argument quite a lot.
3. ‘No, no, Pharma is not in charge — this is a Department of Defense operation.’
4. ‘Well, see, it’s not exactly DoD, it’s really the biowarfare industrial complex that is in charge (which includes the intelligence agencies and a lot of other rotten players).’
That’s where the argument rests for now — on Level 3 or Level 4.
But who does the biowarfare industrial complex report to? I think the answer is pretty obvious: capital. That’s the conversation that no one wants to have.
The left is unable to have this conversation because they worship all aspects of the biowarfare industrial complex (masks, lockdowns, useless treatments, deadly vaccines, quarantine camps, and totalitarianism in general). It’s their new God and they will do anything to save it. Thus they avoid any self-reflection which would reveal that they are actually just lackeys for capital at this point.
Conservatives freak out anytime anyone blames capital because they don’t want to give credit to Marx for anything. So they blame the Illuminati, Rothschilds, Freemasons, Lizard People, a Global Communist Conspiracy, a Worldwide Pedophile Network, etc. Which are all just different names for capital (or rather, the most deleterious aspects of capital).
(I should also add that lots of people who want to avoid blaming capital pin the events of the last four years on extra-worldly demonic forces including Satan. But that’s a different conversation.)
I’m happy for us to re-write Capital to account for the virtues and dynamism of capital (which are many) along with its deficiencies. But the fundamental problem we face right now is that the holders (and hoarders) of capital (the 1%) start pandemics and wars in order to increase the amount of capital that they have. It’s M-C-M' all over again.* I wish it wasn’t so but here we are.
Every generation rediscovers Capital for themselves the hard way — through personal experience. And then the next generation rediscovers the horrors of the alternatives to capitalism in a seemingly endless cycle.
So I believe that the conversation we need to have is this:
“How can we have the virtues of capital (dynamism, growth, entrepreneurship, speed/efficiency, unbridled human creativity, and prosperity) without the corruption of capital (monopolies, slavery, war, genocide, oppression, and fascism)?” That’s what no one has figured out.
I take it as given that the alternatives to capitalism over the last 275 years have almost always been worse than what they replaced (the fascist hellscape of modern day Canada as just the latest example). But nearly everyone on both the left and right agrees that the state and corporate sector merged in 2020 (or before) and this fascist partnership must be undone because their business model is killing us. That being said, we cannot just go back to the system that led us here in the first place — in an endless game of “Chutes and Ladders.” So how do we design a system of capitalism without fascism going forward?
* For those who are new to this topic, M-C-M' is the foundational equation of Das Kapital. Marx argued that in an earlier era people had a Commodity (say, wheat) that they turned into Money (by selling it in the market) in order to have more Commodities (a new coat and some cheese). C-M-C'. Everyone is better off and enjoying the fruits of their labors.
But under monopoly capitalism, some people have Money that they turn into Commodities that they sell in order to have more Money. M-C-M'. It’s accumulation of money for the sake of accumulation. Which is kinda pointless and the source of widespread suffering. That’s the argument.
And what we have seen in the last four years is that the ruling class has taken their money and turned it into very profitable commodities (gain-of function viruses, pandemics via propaganda, toxic treatments, and deadly vaccines) that they sold (well, forced on the population via government purchasing programs) in order to have more money. That’s why I say it’s M-C-M' all over again.
The military industrial complex is doing this as well in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Taiwan — they have money that they turn into drones, tanks, and bombs in order to accrue more money.
The people driving the pandemics and wars already have more money than they could spend in many lifetimes. And yet they get up every day to create more pandemics and wars in order to generate even more money (and the power, wealth, and control that goes with that).
The evidence is overwhelming that M-C-M' is exactly what’s happening. In the first two years of the pandemic, billionaires saw their wealth increase by $5 trillion. According to Oxfam, using data from Forbes, “The combined wealth of the top 10 billionaires doubled during the first two years of the pandemic and is now six times greater than that of the world’s poorest 3.1 billion people.” The point is that all of this money is going to people who already have more money than they could ever spend.
So the question is how do we step out of this vicious cycle into a system that is more harmonious without the unintended consequences that have afflicted such revolutionary/reform efforts in the past?
Blessings to the warriors. 🙌
Prayers for everyone fighting to stop the iatrogenocide. 🙏
Huzzah for those who are building the parallel society our hearts know is possible. ✊
In the comments, please let me know how you might design a system of capitalism without fascism so that this never happens again.
As always, I welcome any corrections.
In my opinion, Toby, it's not Capital that is the issue, it's the application of power & wealth to profit from creating death, disease, debt & human suffering. It is the endless "name stealing" by these individuals designed to deceive innocent & naive individuals and thereby assist the thieves in acquiring endlessly increasing amounts of wealth & power!
Examples include-
"The Patriot Act" which took a wreaking ball to the US Constitution
"The Federal Reserve" which is a consortium of private European Bankers who wanted into the Independent US, fighting to remain out of their death grip, (hmm, what has happened since they got in, btw,)
"Covid Vaccines" which are anything but.
"The Sars-cov-2 Pandemic" which wasn't.
"Safe & Effective" vaccines for children or adults.
It's all lies, my friends. Injecting neurotoxins, human primitive DNA contaminants, retroviruses, antigens, heavy metals, Glysophate, peg, & God only knows what, into newborn babies is a horror, not a safe & effective intervention.
Ditto "Gender Affirming Care," for goodness sake- nothing could unafirm your gender more than cutting off your sexual organs & taking a boatload of toxic artificial hormones. And all this to normalize the hideous damage being done to babies with injections of highly toxic substances, imo, in most cases.
Again & again when we are led by the nose to our destruction by these forces we first fall for their lies, the psy-op, the propaganda machine, first.
These forces are only stopped by the People, with an education, and their own independence.
Read the Founding Fathers. They had their faults, we all do btw, but they truly understood what this fight is all about & the price of losing it- eternal slavery, suffering & death, exactly because those forces I mentioned. Perhaps they should be named the "enemies or predators of humanity," but what or whomever they are, they feed off of our suffering.
So get back to basics- no debt & power to the Consortium. (Audit the Fed as Ron Paul told us for decades.)
Downsize Government. (Sociopaths always get to the top of unaccountable & powerful organizations. Stop that reoccurring problem by not building the power structures in the first place!)
Improve Education so our children remember how rare & precious Freedom is, in human history, and what is required to maintain it.
Lift up health by growing organic food, here at home & stop subsidizing pHarma. Promote natural & actually safe healing modalities.
Be at Peace with the rest of the world as much as it is in our power to do so- Empires abroad are incompatible with Liberty at home.
Uphold the rule of law by regulating the Corporations & Capital very strenuously.
That's the most important of all, imo.
Seal our Borders until we have a budget surplus, low crime, & excellent education & health. Once we've sorted out our own mess, then we can entertain guests, I believe, but not before.
Make lying to the public, in media, or Government an offense, if it's intentional & get everything the tax payer has funded out in the open!
Open VAERS & open the New Energy Files as a start.
Get the truth of President Kennedy's assassination & his brother Bobby's on the front page of our History books while we downsize the CIA to information gathering only.
Truth, applied with love is the only thing that can get us out of the mess we are in. Let's start making use of it everywhere!
Finally, vice isn't a business, it's a crime.
Pornography must go, drug abuse must go, theft, lies & assaults on people or property must be punished. It's just common sense, and a another aspect of "do unto others as you would have done unto you. "
Crime & vice filled streets are no place to raise anyone's children, and we better figure that out, and fast.
Blessings Toby. I really think the division isn't actually between left & right, or conservatives & liberals, that's only a diversion & a tactic, but between compassion & cruelty, greed & generosity, honesty & deceit, diplomacy & threats, violance & self-control, truth vs lies.
And it has always been so since before Solomon.
PS- many societies that lasted forbid the loaning of money at interest. I've found myself unwilling to charge any interest on the funds I've loaned recently. Hmm. That gut reaction & the older ways are perhaps in touch with a very deep wisdom we might all wish to consider......
Sound money, only as a medium of exchange?
My, my. What an idea!
; ))
Not capital as such. Hard working people earn money which is capital.
Monopoly capitalism- Private Public Partnerships (Fascism)=(crony-capitalism =reserve banking and speculative-capital) which is protected by Government, yes. The derivative traders 'Financial Hedge betting' are the speculators that have inside information. It is undeniable.