A Rambling Ode to Marx The Analyst

Marx may not have been a very good prophet, or even a very good Communist. But there was one thing he excelled at... Karate chopping capitalist ideology in the face.

The economic bubble burst the world has only begun is immediately a direct result of the deregulation orgy that Democrats and Republicans alike show up to religiously. It is a parallel of Scientology, only instead of worshiping Nut Job Hubbard, they all worship Nut Job Reagan.



But scratch a little deeper, and there is a much more fundamental cause for the recent fad of bursting bubbles and bursted Wall Street egos. It's called capitalism itself, and Uncle Marx tried to warn ye depressed souls.

Many liberal analysts would like to blame the entirety of our economic problems on deregulation, but fail to ask what makes so many politicians want to deregulate? Could it be because national politicians are beholden to capitalist interests? Could it be because capitalism thrives on buy-outs, take-overs, bending-of-laws, buying-of-laws, rigging-elections, incessant-expansion?

Reagan and his disciples did not grow out of a vacuum. They are not crashers of Adam Smith's utopian capitalist party. They are the inescapable anomaly that will arise from any rigid large scale capitalist structure.

For all my fellow Matrix geeks, the Architect can't seem to perfect the Matrix in order to avoid people like Neo (Neo is is living in the 6th version of the Matrix). It's because the Matrix is a flawed structure for human control, it is inevitable that it will be destroyed each time.



I know what you are thinking. Isn't Communism just as bad? Yes, probably. But the arguments against Communism, that it doesn't work because it is Communist's fate to enslave its societies' people works the same for Capitalism.

But back to Marx. While living off the bourgeois tit of Engel's parents, he noticed some pretty serious stuff about Capitalism. Stuff that would be painfully obvious to anyone free from the distractions and luxuries that we spawn of consumer culture would never notice on our own:

$Capitalism MUST be ever expanding. Think about it, capitalism only works when people buy more shit this year than they did last year. Capitalism only works when the bottom line either gets bigger, or the corporation gets bought. We live in an ever expanding universe, it will eventually collapse back on itself, or more likely, fizzle out and die a slow cold death. Not even the universe is ultimately infinite in its potential for expansion, and you think something come up with by greedy humans is?

$Externalities are never, and I mean NEVER, a factor taken under consideration by capitalism unless by force. By this I mean the destruction of our planet, the exploitation of labor, the health of human biological systems. This is why agriculture in America is centered around stuffing corn into our food, drink, cows, pigs, chickens, gas tanks, and farm bills. This is the reason pharmaceutical companies are allowed to peddle dangerous drugs to our nation's youth and elderly. This is the reason our water systems are poisoned and dried up. This is why people who have worked at a factory for 30 years can have their pensions revoked, while the suits who ran the factory into the ground in a matter of months get million dollar severance packages.

$Capitalism is based on a wasteful open-looped system of useful stuff. We mine stuff with no regard to our planet or laborers, we refine the stuff with no regard to our planet or laborers or consumers, we sell the stuff to consumers, the consumers discard the stuff with no regard to our planet. It is an endless and ever expanding cycle of waste and greed.

$Capitalism will ultimately and ceaselessly cause painful bubbles. It is a vicious cycle that economists will gladly tell you about as the natural flow of capitalism. Capitalism is based on growth, after all. So it is only natural for that growth to be based on hot air from time to time. Take the mortgage crises that has only begun as a good example. Wall Street is a house of cards, plain and simple. Our economy is largely supported by people in suits moving imaginary money around by the trillions in hedge funds.

$Capitalism is based entirely on stratification of society. The more "civilized" and "advanced" the society, the more stratified and advanced in terms of capitalism it is. The capitalist civilizers of the world will not be happy until the top 100 people of the world own 90% of the world's wealth.

Take a moment to think about the best institutions our society has: public education, fire departments, social security; a dwindling list of popular programs. These are all socialist programs. Think about the worst institutions our society has: health care, media networks, war profiteers; an ever increasing list of evils. These are all capitalist institutions based on propaganda and distraction. National and World news departments shrink, while Sports and Entertainment departments expand; military benefits decrease, while mercenary companies get billion dollar contracts; socialist health programs for the young and elderly are undermined by the government, while 10s of millions of Americans get 3rd world medical access.

Do you really think these trends are not natural and logical conclusions of capitalism? Are you so dead to the world to think that "trickle down" theories are anything but shameless mind-control techniques?

What is the purpose of economic systems? They are to distribute basic human needs and resources as efficiently as possible. Economic systems which destroy the planet and destroy human lives for the good of the few are catastrophic failures, pure and simple. Economic systems that encourage complete debauchery and voidness of the human spirit are immoral and must be dismantled. Economic systems that alienate billions of people from each other, themselves, and nature are evil/cold/wrong.

Marx may not have the answers, but he was spot on in his analysis of Capitalism. And we are reaping the rewards for ignoring them. Entrepreneurship is a valuable spirit that should be encouraged, but we as a human species must be vigilant against ideologies that are infused in our large scale economic systems.

Angry Americans almost destroyed capitalism in the riots of the 1890's, but the capitalists in Washington and Wall Street kept it alive with supreme violence and vengeance. Now capitalists don't have to revert to violence, because they own your mind. Wake up people, GET MAD AS HELL! YOU ARE CORPORATE SLAVE CHARLATANS!