MB Civic

The World Communist Movement, championed under the former Soviet Union, which manifesto demanded the violent overthrow of all capitalistic nations including the United States automatically made followers of the Soviet Union’s Communist Manifesto, individuals like South America’s Che Guevara, an immediate “enemy of the state” regarding the United States of America. It soon became historically and abundantly clear that communism in theory was an economic idealistic panacea but in reality did not work.The World Communist Movement also made it clear that market economies based upon capitalism did work, provided there was a mix of socialistic-type government programs in the capitalism economies to provide for the basic needs of a country’s population.

It remains axiomatic that the only purpose of government, [any government], is to meet the needs of its population. Less government, as the American Republican Party continually espouses as an ideal, works in an agrarian society wherein each household grows and/or herds its own food and virtually takes care of all of its own needs. However, the United States today is no longer an agrarian society as it was in the 1800s but is a large urban population, for the most part, which depends upon government to make sure the population’s basic needs are met such as water, sewerage, communication, highways, damns, public schools, county hospitals, national defense, and the regulation of the nation’s private businesses to prevent their exploitation of the populous, to insure lawful commercial activity.

The World Communist Movement, which began in the 1920s, and continuing into the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, was a response to the economic philosophy of Karl Marx who espoused a non-market ideal which did not work in reality as stated. However, the World Communist Movement also proved something else. If uncontrolled by government, American capitalism had an inherent abundance of evils. This socialistic movement commencing in the 1920s attracted tens of millions of Americans, many of whom were scholars and intellectuals, and people worldwide as a possible answer to rampant economic injustices which, during the era of capitalism’s giants such Henry Ford, Rockefeller , and J. P. Morgan, disenfranchised tens of millions of Americans. Although communism was proven not economically viable or an answer or elixir to economic injustices worldwide and in the United States, the movement sent a powerful message that populations were restive and discontent with the evils of uncontrolled capitalism which exploited the workforce while living “high” on the backs and sweat of underpaid labor.

These same economic injustices and social evils still exist today in America and, under a very thin veneer of social harmony, lies a restive and percolating minority American workforce which remains significantly economically disenfranchised in an America which has developed an aristocracy and a former European-type class (or caste) system wherein, e.g., physicians earn from $300,000 to $3,000,000 annually while “black” Americans, such as those exposed by Hurricane Katrina, are making less than $10,000 income per year. These economic injustices are further illustrated by a majority of the population, 51+%, going without health care with America being the only large remaining industrial nation in the world without national health care.

America started out as a “government of the people”, not a Corporate America or multinational corporate oligarchy, wherein the philosophy of its Founding Fathers was “all men are created equal” in opportunity as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although the United States of America, like most nations, is a continuing “work in progress”, and many great world changes have happened for the better in the United States, many other changes have taken place which have set the nation adrift and apart from its founding ideals and economic principles which are alarming and threatening Americans’ way of life. The following laundry list of changes in the United States, which are harmfully transforming the Nation away from the America it used to be, represent an America that this author never agreed to, to wit:

An America this author never agreed to is:
(1) an aristocracy which has risen represented by such groups as practicing physicians, hospitals, and banking institutions, to name a few, heavily into exploiting the poor and the aged;
(2) a class and caste system in the United States representing a grave economic disparity between poor Americans close to peonage and the super rich, due to corporate tax breaks, uncontrolled corporate corruption, and non-livable wages, to name a few;
(3) 99% of America’s wealth being in the hands of 1% of its citizens; (4) 51%, a majority of the population, going without health care when the only purpose of government is to meet the needs of its population;
(5) criminal justice only for the rich as reflected in the fact that 98% of America’s inmate prison population are minority ethnic poor;
(6) a corporate oligarchy replacing America’s democracy via corporate purchasing U. S. Congressional votes for the right price, thereby disenfranchising the American electorate and ending representative government;
(7) multinational corporations strip mining the American workforce by “outsourcing” tens of millions of American jobs merely to save a few dollars per hour in cheap Asian wages;
(8) the transferring of almost a trillion dollars annually in gold reserves from Ft. Knox, draining America’s gold reserves, for multinational corporations to purchase cheap foreign oil instead of developing domestic oil. (Texas alone supplied 2/3rds of the oil needs of the Allied Forces in World War II). Such money hemorrhaging, unless stopped, will soon transform America into a Third World Country;
(9) the circulating of almost a trillion new dollars annually in Asian countries instead of the United States (Circulating money is vital to an economy e.g. one dollar circulated 1,000 times in America will buy 1,000 McDonald’s hamburgers); the transforming of America from a manufacturing nation, with tens of millions of manufacturing jobs, into a service nation with the resulting loss of all those manufacturing jobs to Asian employees, especially when history shows that manufacturing nations are the ones most likely to economically survive and prosper as witnessed by the booming economies of Germany, China, Japan, Israel, and South Korea.
(10) the scrapping of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment;
(11) a corporatocracy replacing the American government;
(12) the disappearance of the great American middle class and the appearance of the American peon on the horizon, due to multinational corporate wage abuses;
(13) the abandonment of the American classless society in favor of an aristocracy and mercantile barons;
(14) multinational defense contractors inventing hoax wars (e.g. Viet Nam, Afghanistan, and Iraq) to drain the U. S. Treasury of one trillion dollars in corporate profits per hoax war, via the help of a paid-off United States Congress, by selling Uncle Sam a trillion dollars of unneeded weaponry but for the invented war;
(15) the United States foreign policy blunder, due to over influence by Israel, of abandoning the U. S.’s position of neutrality in the Middle East, unnecessarily resulting in America’s endangerment and present day al-Qaeda nightmare;
(16) favorable tax breaks for the super rich which assures great economic disparity in income and economic injustice;
(17) college only for the upper middle class and rich when the Nation, already paying for 12 years of undergraduate schooling for everyone, could easily pay for four more years of college for every American with the desire to get a college education;
(18) international piracy and a New American Imperialism trespassing upon the resources of the international community;
(19) an American fascist state in the form of the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act (Anyone joked at an airport lately?);
(20) a police state wherein the FBI shows up on anti-war demonstrator’s doorstep for the latter’s exercising his or her Constitutional right of dissent;
(21) an American “spoil system” similar to that of Mexico where everyone is for sale;
(22) social persecutions by a bigoted, intolerant, and hateful Christian Community i.e. the Dangerous Sheep (e.g. historical persecutions of Native Americans, Africans, Jews, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Mormons, Masons, gays, and especially individuals with criminal records who are socially 100% disenfranchised and cruelly barred from rehabilitation and employment due these human beings being designated as permanently evil, sadistically leaving these once errant fellow humans “penniless” from conviction to grave, by these righteous hypocrites no longer following the Jesus model of tolerance, forgiveness, and human compassion, and whose Christian duty, mandated from their god, is to harm and [destroy] these “evil” individuals, a psychopathic theology indeed; and
(23) a United States Congress no longer “representatives” but private entrepreneurs focused upon campaign re-election corporate financing.

Finally, an America this author never agreed to is:
(24) an America with tens of millions of cowards, safely keeping their heads down, too timid or comfortable to save a Great Nation via lacking the courage of America’s Fore Fathers to continue with the grand vision of individual liberty reigning over government wherein all Americans are considered equal in opportunity and enjoy equal protection of the law, regardless of race, color, or creed, and a government of the people that continues to be paramount over a multinational corporate oligarchy which currently owns the U. S. Congress whose representatives are so quick to sabotage the American ideal, for the right price.

In summary, the America I never agreed to is an America fraught with economic and social injustices and economic class/caste systems wherein inequality and aristocracies reign supreme. I never agreed to an America which is today no more than a tool of multinational corporations via a sell-out Congress which corporations are currently strip mining the Nation and rapidly molding America into an eventual Third World Country.

As a position statement, America is not a country that belongs only to the rich among us and multinational corporations which employ genocide, piracy, and imperialism for corporate profits in the trillions of dollars. In short, the America I never agreed to is the one that is radically different now from the original version. Continuing apathy will assure that the United States will soon arrive at the end of its economic journey into a Third World Country. Yes, there is a reason the communist movement of the 1920s had such a massive appeal to tens of millions of Americans. That reason was economic justice for the masses. As stated, those same economic injustices are still with us. Things must change if the only purpose of government is to remain meeting the needs of the people. America was always meant to be nothing other than an economically classless society with equal opportunities for everyone. We dumped the monarchs, the counts and barons, and royalty several centuries ago. In America, an Italian immigrant hawking hotdogs in Times Square is just as important as the Queen of England ever was and with our freedom of speech, we can still say “Throw the bum out” at Yankee Stadium. Protectionism, livable wages, and government control of the multinational corporations would be a good start back to the America we used to be. The America I did agree with. It is time for America’s new aristocracies and class systems to disappear along with physicians charging $1,600 for a twelve minute examination and prescription pills at $500 and $1,000 each, with the arrival of national health care for America. It is time where the [basic] needs of the entire population, including the “blacks” of New Orleans, will to be taken care of and where economic justice for all of America’s citizens will finally prevail.

This is the America that I did agree to, and will support forever.

Food for thought.