Thursday 8 September 2011

The threat to the global system

The debt crisis is the big issue in Europe and in the US. The western governments have to pay debts with money they don't have. However the governments have to put money aside and they save it simply on the population, on social policies and education.

In today's situation you can see the economic crisis as a threat to the global system and to the hegemony of the US. The result could be the collapse of the global economic system. When politics fail, war has to save the problems. In the current development you hear about the "humanitarian" war in Libya. Which eventually is a war about the domination of Libya’s substantial oil reserves.


Or would it mean only the collapse of the US like a soviet scientist predicted:

"Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. [...] Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html


However no powerful government such as the United States would simply give up power. There would come a time, which possibly has already arrived, to save the power and the hegemony of the US with any means and to suppress every movement which prevents this goal.
Finally, it is hard to say what will happen in reality. However the mighty politicians save the money on the people. Have you expected something else? This is the way world works, they take money from the poor and give it to the rich.

Capitalism and the lack of democracy

The western societies boast always about freedom and democracy. For some parts it may be true, but it is not that kind of democracy and freedom which is expected by the proletariat. The democracy of capitalist societies serves the rich people's interests.
Some people believe, that capitalist societies have already achieved the highest stage of democracy Nonetheless every culture has a different understanding of how democracy should work. For instance in western democracies the ruling party gets elected by the majority of the people, but there is still a considerable minority which disapproves with the ruling party. Just what benefit is this kind of democracy providing for you when it serves the rich people and you have to live under subsistence level?
“The United States, in particular, has been a staunch promoter of democracy and has fought to have democracy entrenched throughout the world.  [...] Why is it that the US not only champions democracy but champions extreme individualism and unbridled capitalism and has strongly opposed any form of socialism (which might spread the benefits of development more widely among people)? Why is it that America's wealthy elites are able to exert such strong influence on political elections and economic decisions? Alesina and Glaeser in their book Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe (2004) point out that all the American political institutions are ultimately the product of an 18th Century Constitution which was crafted by a minority of white and wealthy men of property determined to stop the State from expropriating their wealth and to limit the amount of redistribution the poor could demand of the rich.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17453.htm
Another point is that the hierarchy of the old days in the democracies of today is still preserved. The situation gets worse through economic crisis. It is acting as a tool for the politicians to take over the will of the people. Nevertheless the “societies of neoliberalism” are ruled by capital. That's why they call it capitalism. Money is the power for the few not for the entire people.

Democracy is often abused in difficult times, mostly in specific situations like war. And then there are people who proclaim themselves as the liberators. This is why some movements like nazism and taliban had so much acceptance among the population. These movements are characterised by false hood and misinformation, so you have to be careful. There are only specific liberations which benevolent for the people like the liberations from imperialism and capitalism.

Eventually, the democracy endangers itself in particular in neoliberalist based societies, which are not always intended to serve the entire people. People in history have always fought for more freedom, but in my opinion we haven't reached the final stage of democracy. The struggle for real democracy for the people goes on.