Allen17
10-29-2010, 09:16 AM
It is clear that communities across the world are threatened by the globalization spearheaded by the American government, multinational corporations, and other vehicles of the world's bourgeoisie elite, like the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF, etc.
It is no coincidence that as "First World" nations and their vehicles have become more global in their reach, the traditional communities that could be found in any nation anywhere have declined. Look at Iraq and Afghanistan-two states that have been all but destroyed by warfare waged by the American government and its allies in the global game of conquest.
Closer to home for Americans, the "American Dream" has turned out to have always been a backwards, destructive nightmare that upends communities and isolates people in suburbia. There's no community there, and there was never intended to be. Dehumanizing people into consumers to buy the next batch of stuff that will be obsolete in time to buy the next batch of stuff from the capitalist elite-man, what a hell of a fella Steve Jobs must be, living off the work that low-wage workers in China and Taiwan and other places we Americans aren't supposed to give a shit about because, hey, we have gadgets!
You want to know why there is crime, drugs, bad youth, school shootings, prisons full of people who never laid a hand on anybody, and inequality, in America and around the world? Why there is war and famine and outright genocide in Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, around the world? And why it's all destined to collapse on itself, and in many ways already has? All of these are symptoms of the underlying cause- the globalization of social arrangements that promote "individualism" and the accumulation of capital, no matter who you have to step on or shoot or torture.
Communities will inevitably fail if conditions are inequal. That is not my opinion or personal belief, that is something has been proven over and over again objectively throughout human history. And the globalization of inequality multiplies the destruction of communities and turns localized catastrophe into global calamity.
It is no coincidence that as "First World" nations and their vehicles have become more global in their reach, the traditional communities that could be found in any nation anywhere have declined. Look at Iraq and Afghanistan-two states that have been all but destroyed by warfare waged by the American government and its allies in the global game of conquest.
Closer to home for Americans, the "American Dream" has turned out to have always been a backwards, destructive nightmare that upends communities and isolates people in suburbia. There's no community there, and there was never intended to be. Dehumanizing people into consumers to buy the next batch of stuff that will be obsolete in time to buy the next batch of stuff from the capitalist elite-man, what a hell of a fella Steve Jobs must be, living off the work that low-wage workers in China and Taiwan and other places we Americans aren't supposed to give a shit about because, hey, we have gadgets!
You want to know why there is crime, drugs, bad youth, school shootings, prisons full of people who never laid a hand on anybody, and inequality, in America and around the world? Why there is war and famine and outright genocide in Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, around the world? And why it's all destined to collapse on itself, and in many ways already has? All of these are symptoms of the underlying cause- the globalization of social arrangements that promote "individualism" and the accumulation of capital, no matter who you have to step on or shoot or torture.
Communities will inevitably fail if conditions are inequal. That is not my opinion or personal belief, that is something has been proven over and over again objectively throughout human history. And the globalization of inequality multiplies the destruction of communities and turns localized catastrophe into global calamity.