Capitalism? What Does That Look Like?
Capitalism? What Does That Look Like?
Tim O’Connor – Center for the Preservation of Humanity – 12/17/2022
There are shortcomings in capitalist economies. The capitalism we all understand is not really capitalism so I have to wonder what exactly capitalism used to look like. When researching and learning about capitalism one will quickly come to realize that it is based on markets, entrepreneurship, a lot of hard work, and the possibility of failure. That is not how capitalism operates any longer. And while the perverted forms of capitalism are seen as having failed millions of people (despite pulling billions of people out of poverty) the answer is still not the ‘in vogue’ alternatives; Marxism and technocracy.
Peru is learning that lesson the hard way. Peru wasn’t all that capitalist to begin with but in 2021 they elected a Marxist, Pedro Castillo, the Peru Libre (Free Peru) party candidate. Whoops – you messed up big time Peruvian voter. His party’s platform promised to deliver Marxism-Leninism to the people of Peru which makes me curious about whether or not there are Spanish-language publications warning about the dangers of the ideology. If nothing else, Peruvians could always take a trip northeast to Venezuela to see, first hand, how splendid the misery and torment of Marxism is once it is initiated.
The Free Peru party’s platform fully embraces Marxism-Leninism which should have been a huge red-flag for Peruvian voters, but apparently it wasn’t. As a result of the party’s ideology, promises were made regarding a new constitution being drafted, businesses paying 80% of their profits in taxes or being nationalized, education focusing on revolution, media outlets being banned, and all capital needing to be eliminated. “Castillo’s plan is a copy-and-paste version of the Chavista manual, which has been used in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador: You win elections, use your political honeymoon to replace the constitution, then enact a new one that allows you to stay in power indefinitely,” according to the Miami Herald from May 26, 2021.
The New York Times, which has a fatal flaw for sponsoring communism wherever it pops up in the world, relates how this is working out in Peru. Castillo is sitting in a prison cell and has been ordered to remain there for 18 months by a Peruvian court. He’s there because he tried to dissolve Congress and institute a new Constitution rooted in Marxist-Leninist ideology. The Times came close to describing exactly what Castillo was trying to do but instead of detailing his intentions, they used the rest of the article to promote the ‘protesters’ demanding Castillo’s release from prison and the measures taken by the government to break the protests.
Castillo’s vice president, Dina Boluarte, who is now in power, has issued a state of emergency order curtailing many civil liberties – especially the freedom to assemble. 15 provinces have been issued curfews. Boluarte is quoted as saying, ““Violence and radicalism won’t end a legal and legitimate government,” she said, speaking Thursday at a graduation of military officers. “There’s no room for fear, only the bravery, unity and the hope of a country that deserves more of its politicians.”” What is odd about the situation is that Boluarte is a Marxist-Leninist and the protesters are Marxist-Leninist supporters. The protesters have caused several deaths, impeded emergency medical vehicles, and shut down airports. They have also injured 200 police officers while 197 protesters have been injured.
The governments of Mexico, Columbia, Bolivia, and Argentina denounced Castillo’s removal from office. They did this because they support Marxist-Leninist ideology themselves. As a result Peru has ordered it’s ambassadors to return to Peru’s capital, Lima. This is how wars start, so it will be interesting to see how this develops in the future.
Another New York Times article notes the deaths which have occurred due to the Peruvian protests. “So far, at least 22 people have been killed in the unrest or related accidents, according to the office of the country’s ombudsman, which called for an investigation into human rights abuses in Ayacucho.” Ministers of the government are resigning. Boluarte is being blamed for the deaths because of the measures she has taken to quell the ‘protests’ which include using the military to break up the crowds. The Times noted:
“In recent days, protesters have attacked police stations, courthouses, television network operations and factories. They also forced the closures this week of four airports in southern Peru after crowds swarmed them.”...
...“On Thursday, protesters in Ayacucho marched peacefully through the city before crowds forced their way into the airport, igniting clashes with military officers, according to local media. Eight people died, and a regional health director said that three people injured in the violence are now in intensive care and need to be evacuated for specialized care in Lima.
“Protests resumed in Ayacucho on Friday, with reports of demonstrators encroaching on the airport again, and of attacks on a courthouse and a bank down.”
This story might as well have come from the USSR’s Pravda covering any of the numerous uprisings the USSR put down. What is the government supposed to do in this situation? The ‘protesters’, which would be much more adequately described as violent rioters hell-bent on installing a dictator of the proletariat are attacking armed security forces at important infrastructure sites. Just like the USSR used to do, there are calls for Marxist-Leninist NGO’s, operating under the ruse of a human right’s organization, to condemn the actions of the present government in order to replace it with a more brutal dictator – namely Peru’s Castillo in this instance. If there were 22 police and military personnel killed by protesters, the issue wouldn’t be painted the same way.
Some lessons need to be taken from this. Marxists have no regard for human life, non-Marxist laws, nor property rights. They all hate God and love their human leader so much they are willing to die for the leader (often at the leader’s own hands). They are all deluded into thinking that because the perverted version of capitalism being touted would be better replaced by a dictator operating a nationalized economy with Marxism-Leninism as it’s underlying direction.
The issues becomes how to fix capitalism to make it work for as many people as would adopt it. I’m not talking about how capitalism operates today. Capitalism has actually been destroyed by creating a hybrid of it infused with big doses of Marxism. This isn’t a new trend in the US. It really started in 1913 with the removal of State representation in the federal government (Amendment Seventeen) and the reincarnation of a central bank called the Federal Reserve System agreed to in what is called Bretton-Woods. After Woodrow Wilson came one of the most abhorrent president’s ever – Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Marxist New Deal package which allowed the federal government entry into the market economy. Since then the government has wormed it’s way into every aspect of the economy. So far, efforts to nationalize industries have been rebuffed with several important exceptions – notably auto manufacturers and banking institutions. If the current federal government could find a way to nationalize everything they would in a heartbeat and they would cite capitalism’s so-called flaw – inequality.
Inequality is only relevant to Marxists when it comes to outcomes. Capitalism financially rewards those who are creative, willing to take risks, have integrity, have ingenuity, and succeed despite myriad roadblocks to that success. The person who succeeds becomes rich – those who don’t have those qualities end up working for those who are willing to take the risks. The risks involved in capitalist systems is failure which can result in financial ruin. There are way to many government-funded protections for ‘preventing’ financial ruin. This is why the US nationalized the domestic auto-industry for a time as well as why the banking industry was massively propped up – they were seen as too big to fail. If they failed; however, then the auto and banking industry’s were doing something to cause their decline. The need for transportation isn’t going away, auto manufacturers (what basically amounts to an oligarchy) found themselves in a situation in which they were not profitable. The need for banking isn’t going away and entrepreneurs would have loved to make banker money along more integral lines to avoid the failures suffered by those which were insolvent. Because they were too big to fail, the auto and banking industry’s were bailed out, actually grew in size, and the would-be entrepreneurs were left in the cold.
By definition, capitalism will never create an equality of outcome. I don’t see that as a bad thing – I see it as something to strive for. The problem with the capitalism as we understand it primarily comes from regulations designed to raise barriers to enter the market in the first place. These regulations are created by the several companies which operate as a consortium. For example, Sprint and Verizon collude with one another to set prices and draft legislation to prevent any competitor from entering the market. This is where the main problem is because it ends actual competition unless huge amounts of capital is raised up front and increasingly high regulatory barriers are hurdled. If a company manages to enter the market and becomes a significant player then they end up joining the consortium themselves and the barriers, instead of being destroyed, are raised even higher. This isn’t capitalism – it is socialism (on some cases fascism) with capitalist characteristics.
The Peruvians rioting over the detainment of their Marxist-Leninist ‘leader’ should all be given a spot inside of the same prison. The protesters need to go home. When they get home they need to understand that making everyone equal means make everyone equally poor and miserable. It means taking away all civil liberties forever. It means willingly transforming the entire nation into a slave-master relationship which still features massive economic inequality. Instead of railing for Marxism, the Peruvians in the streets need to understand what has happened to capitalism as they understand it, fix it to reflect a proper balance between pure capitalism and social protections, and continue to strive to rise to the top of the ladder. These Marxists in Peru, as Marxists in every other place it has ever been implemented, want to take the ladder away entirely so social and economic progress is dependent upon the judgment of one person – the dictator over the Marxist system. In effect – no one will see any progress but everyone will be poor, destitute, hungry, and worried about their futures while the elite Marxists running the kleptocratic state tell their subjects they are rich, well provided for, and the future only gets brighter.
The US, being seen as the capitalist leader of the world, should understand this and start taking steps to mitigate the negative effects socialism has caused to the economy. We could get rid of the FED tomorrow. Onerous regulations could be gotten rid of. Union membership could be made capitalist by forcing competing unions to offer services workers want instead of mandating membership. The Social Security system could be ended tomorrow and everyone has ever paid into it should receive all of their money back plus interest. We could fix it and show the world what capitalism, even with robust safety nets, actually looks like and how well it works in a free society. We could, to steal the term from Donald Trump, Make America Great Again. For two-and-a-half to three years, the US was greater than it had been in decades – people, even the poor, were making money, had more opportunities to make even more money, and saw a more positive future in front of them.
In Peru, the rioters and protesters are calling the Congress the elites – just like we do in the United States. The elites in any nation; however, are really national entities linked to a globalist cabal which operates on Marxism, technocracy, transhumanism, and sees people as merely a commodity to surveil, control, and manipulate. The national elite’s role is to more closely align their nation to globalism in order to make the governments of the world as homogeneous as possible for a one-world government to step in. The Peruvian protesters are missing that fact entirely because what they are in favor of is actually Peru’s global alignment with this global government. The same holds true of the rioters in Ukraine in 2014 and the BLM riots and protests in Western nations in 2020. Protests, like those which occurred in China several weeks ago and on January 6, 2021, which seek to decouple their national governments from globalist-derived policies are covered in a completely different, much more hostile, demeaning, and ominous manner by the media and authorities. The Jan 6 protesters are in prison being tortured and the Chinese protesters are being ‘talked to’ one by one. The Peruvian rioters are called protesters, their actual crimes ignored, and their causes celebrated by the media and authorities.
There is already a global government. The global government is completely supported by the businesses involved in oligarchy/monopoly capitalism – the one we understand. Some of these businesses are in so deep with the global government that they operate on fascism. If there is a possibility of fixing the capitalist systems of the world, the global government needs to go because it seeks to destroy individual efforts of all kinds and replace it with ideas of the global good based on collectivism.
So how can capitalism be made to be inclusive once more? The nations captured by global government could start rebuffing the Marxism which has infested it’s nation by dismantling all but the most essential barriers to entry into a market. The globally aligned nations will rally against any such developments so, get ready for the backlash. Knowing the globalist backlash is always there, their national puppets just go along to get along to go against it. Thus, it is up to local political actors and local populations seeking freedom and economic viability set apart from a globalist economic and political system to fight back. The two best ways to do that are for massive numbers (about 25 million in the US) of individuals to engage in tax strikes and/or create a breakaway civilization based on individual rights, economic freedom, a legal system based on accountability of anyone transgressing the law as well as jury nullification, and sovereignty, stressing non-intervention in the affairs of other nations.
The global government is about to use fear once more to allow their solidification and authority to increase. Fears of international nuclear war, novel infectious diseases, man-made climate change, and general lawlessness are being propagated throughout all of the major media outlets, government spokespeople, academia, businesses, and NGO’s around the world. If people are not cajoled into accepting the global government (many are still not even aware of it’s existence) and it’s policies then a new fear campaign will be unleashed for real. Acknowledging that much if the world is already operating under a global government in several important realms of our existences is key. Understanding the intent of this global government is life saving. Understanding how it operates and exposing it’s weak points is paramount to the possibility of having a human future. Their weak point is anyone who even acknowledges the global government’s existence whi is also willing to say no. If enough of us can do that, the global government will have to slink back into the hole from which it crawled out of and wait for a more opportune time to reveal itself fully.
The best way to ensure there is never a global government is to read the Bible and repent. If we followed God’s Laws, used Jesus’ example as our guide to holiness, and rejected ideologies which attempted to refute either of these truths, the world could exist forever. Obviously that isn’t happening now and I don’t really think it will (feel free to change my mind) because even the Bible states that there will be a totalitarian global government installed to tyrannize over all men. It will even subdue the people of God eventually; however, until that day comes, people of God need to continue to speak the truth of the Bible and against this rising system. Peruvians, understand what these protesters are trying to turn your nation into.
For those who do seek to continue speaking truth, though, protection from this evil global government in these evil times will be offered by faith in God. The fear-inspired coronavirus plandemic bolstered this global government while at the same time waking up millions and millions of people to the truth about what is really going on. What does God want needs to be one of the first questions asked and answered before any fear-inspired action is taken. Those who firmly have their feet planted in the Bible get to skip all of this fear and see straight through the fear campaigns, the intent behind the fear campaigns, and the culprits seeking to use their fear campaigns to gain material wealth, increase their control over humanity, and delude those under their control into accepting the edicts of the global government and the Beast system that government represents.
So read your Bible while you can. Pray to God for repentance and pray to God for discernment and protection. Love Jesus and through Him understand that your sins can be forgiven. Follow in the footsteps of Jesus and reject these evil entities enslaving humanity. Reject those calling themselves religious while assisting those who are enslaving us. God loves you, never forget that. Jesus Christ loves you, never forget that either. Talk to them through prayer. Capitalism will never return if individual’s are not respected and the only reason individuals have ever been respected is because of God wanting them to be respected.
Bless God and God bless.