Capitalism will die a natural death
Karl Marx predicted that like Feudalism before it-collapsed in Moscow in 1861- capitalism will die a natural death. If he was alive today I think he won’t be happy because capitalism is being sustained for selfish reasons. Honestly it has reached its sell by date but some egocentric fellows are sustaining it for selfish reasons. It is obvious that it doesn’t work any further; it may have worked for sometime but no longer. But obviously the super rich who seem to control the world economy are paying dearly to sustain it. It is obvious that the death is imminent but the oligarchs are protecting it. This is the theory behind the American millionaires telling the congress to do the noble thing and tax them.
Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
They are afraid that they can’t sustain the economic injustice that has been perpetrated all along. They are scared that a few more occupy wall streets and the system will swallow them they will have no place for the enjoyment of their filthy riches. they know that the proletariats will rise from the shanties of the world and force their way into their enterprises, of course they know that they have the influence to make the government to sent the police and protect their businesses but this can happen if a few hundreds are involved and if the number rises to a few millions the system will suffocate and the masses will have their way. Of course they have a reason to worry because the revolution in Tunisia and Egypt has had a domino effect never predicted before.
The humane Philosophy of social justice
I advocate the death of capitalism and rise of Economanism. Economanism won’t be capitalism, it won’t be communism either, it wont even be socialism but it will be a system of sociopolitical and economic arrangement that balances the true nature of man in relation to the universe. This system will protect the rights of man to food and all basic needs it will ensure that what we have gained in capitalism-the encouragement and preservation of enterprising nature of man-is preserved, it will also encourage that the social responsibility of man to fellow man is preserved not in few occasions of ostentatious and often evil stints of philanthropy. It will give room for the role of any organized government to assure all her citizens the basic rights. This system will make it a crime for a government to tax people and not provide its citizens with basic necessities of health security and food. Economanism will ensure that democracy is not abused by the few plutocrats to the detriment of the many citizens, it will ensure that the environmental justice is ensured by prohibiting the few bourgeoisie from exploiting the mother nature and making it more harmful for the many proletariats. This will ensure that a world of 7b people is not controlled by .0001% of its population. There is a reason why Scandinavian countries lead in HDI. Indeed a survey to test the happiness of world people shows the happiest people are not in London, Washington or in New York but in Oslo, Finland and Switzerland. There is a reason, these countries will not produce the top 50 of the richest people of the world they will not because their societies are not guided by the cruel philosophy of capitalism-get all that you can and can all that you get- famously termed by Julius Kabarega Nyerere as man eat man society. They are driven by the more humane philosophy of social justice. To them democracy is not a voting exercise every 4 to 5 years but a participatory process of choosing rulers who serve at the pleasure of the ruled and meet their economic and social needs without which they resign voluntarily on noticing they can’t attain the high threshold of credibility that their society demands from them.
Justice to the world poor
Capitalism must die, it must die now, it must stop protecting the tyrants of Middle East and Africa, it must die to ensure justice to the African masses raped by the west in colonialism and neocolonialism perpetrated by economic systems geared to impoverish the masses and retain the status quo of western hegemony. For justice to the world poor, capitalism must die, and this is the message across the world, In new York Manhattan Zuccotti park, in London st. James chapel occupation in Greek protests and in Bessiggyes protests in Uganda.
Corporotocracy
I take relieve in the fact that the opinion leaders of the world recognize this fact. George Soros argues that international capitalism fronted by US has failed while national capitalism fronted by china is progressing. A new world “corporotocracy” has been coined to describe the act of the hedge fund managers and the corporate executives buying the police to harass the protesters demanding the death of capitalism and installation of a working alternative. They call themselves the 99% at the accusation that the economy is run at the exclusive benefit of the 1% at the expense of the rest 99%.
Happiness index not GDP
The king of Bhutan has already decided that the true test of development is not GDP but Happiness index. The US has already recognized that the global centre of gravity is tilting Far East and it is bound not to change. The hard truth is that capitalism has failed and nothing witnesses to this than the struggling Greek, Italian, Irish and Portuguese economies not to mention the disenfranchised American populace. All over the masses are angry, they are angry at the system, they are jobless, they don’t own the houses and though with university degrees and college diplomas there are no jobs. This was the situation in Tunisia that led to the act of self immolation by one disgruntled citizen which has since then swept the whole world and whose flames still burn in Yemen and Syria though with a very heavy hand of government repression.
Capitalism must die
Capitalism must die, it must die so that Gaddaffi who made for his peoples welfare than many of the western powers that toppled him (for oil purposes) are not removed from office for capitalist reasons. And we must look Scandinavian; here social justice has grown hand in hand with sound economic systems that have created some most prosperous societies ever.
And this is why capitalism must die for humanity to advance.
