DAS KAPITAL, THE MUSICAL

Suppose you looked at the United States through a magical lens that showed you that the central purpose of America is creation of poverty throughout the world just so we can make money. Wouldn’t that piss you off? Particularly if you had proof? Wouldn’t you say that since we victimize every country that is poor we need to be brought down? Suppose you were taught all this in school? Isn’t it possible you’d hate your own country? Looking at things that way you will understand the American Left.

Why is the Left against the war in Iraq? Why is it supportive of Fidel Castro? Why did they say nothing while Mugabe caused 200,000 of his own citizens to starve to death? Why are they getting kissy face with Iran? Why are they mostly anti-Semitic? American Jews were once the cornerstone of Liberalism. But then the slave screwing Jefferson was once the cornerstone of our culture til fashionable Ivies got to him.

Communism has always been a movement with a dedicated following as intense as religious fanaticism. The Marx Lenin show was a fantasy based on mathematical “proofs” first presented in Das Kapital (soon to be a musical by Oliver Stone) and philosophical ruminations by every “great” thinker. Great thinkers attracted lesser thinkers that attracted other people who would rather think about things than work. All shared the same attitude toward things spiritual, religious, or non-scientific: they were false. "Religion is the opiate of the masses" became a rallying cry. God is dead. Everything wrong with the human condition could be explained through economics, the flows of capital, the surplus values created by business, and the exploitation of labor. It would take an armed revolution or war to correct things for the exploited working class.

Well, that movie went straight to the video stores and all the bright people knew that things had to change if Communism was to be anything other than left overs in a garbage can. So Communism changed. It has become “progressive,” Left, Moral Conscience, and a ton of other nice sounding names. I wrote a major piece a few months back that exposed the New Communism, an ideological movement that has never died in spite of wishful writing from the Right.

So, with a careful wardrobe switch, Communism changed. This new and modern “progressive” movement blames the West, and America in particular, for deliberately causing all the poverty in the world so that we can make money. And then “proves it.” Put in a nutshell this philosophy holds that the rich countries invest in poor countries for the purpose of creating surplus goods so they can take all the “surplus” for themselves leaving the host countries poorer and poorer. Call it surplus goods instead of “Groucho” Marx’s surplus value. They point to every Western owned enterprise in other countries as “proof.” Every denial of foreign aid is further “proof.” The misery of the populace in the Third World is created by the West so we can make money. Their new Das Kapital are a series of essays and books written by Paul Baran (not the internet guru), Immanuel Wallerstein, and Paul Sweezy. All these authors, together with forty or so others are taught in colleges as fact.

The view of the current Left is that America and the rest of the First World deliberately cause poverty in the Developing Countries so we can get richer at the expense of the poorer host country. The workers in Third World countries are too dumb and too poor (helpless: the Left is always helping the helpless) to see what is happening to them. They are prevented from realizing that their cheap labor is turned into profits that will be sent outside of their country. The poorer and more desperate we make the workers the more docile the work force. The host county’s government partners with the exploitative dominant business countries hoping to share in the wealth, but unknowingly allows business to steal the surplus goods created by their labor force. As the New Left sees it, the only solution to World poverty is the destruction of the economies of the top countries that create it. This instead of armed revolution within the elites.

Viewing the world through this lens the Left can view all terrorists as representing the downtrodden; all downtrodden can be uptrodden if it weren’t for “Amerika.” Islam is a victim of American exploitation; it is we who made them poverty stricken so we could exploit them for profit—the wars against terror are actually wars to seize their oil even if, as in Afghanistan, they don’t have any. All of Africa is better than Amerika, and the Left views almost all of Asia as being better than America too. That is because we are the cause of their poverty. We have deliberately caused all poverty everywhere so we could get richer and richer. Using this POV one can see why the Left loves all the dictators, because every fascist government in the world controls a poverty stricken country. These countries are made poor not by the dictators but by the bad old USA. Islam is OK, but the successful dirty Jews are exploiters of the Palestinians whom the Jews deliberately made poor so the Jews could make money..

It follows that the purpose of the Left within “privileged” countries (Europe and the US) is to continually undermine the successful so that all economies can be made equal. Hate Bush, weaken America. Attack every successful person or company, every company product (Microsoft, MacDonald’s, Medicine in general), and every American purpose (war in Iraq, stay out of Iran, etc.) and you will weaken power hungry America, the one deliberately making countries poor. They support Muslim madrassa terrorism in this country to weaken this country, not for any concern for rights.

At first it might seem strange that the Left has never mentioned Zimbabwe, the place where Mugabe deliberately starved 200,000 of his own citizens to death. Especially silent were our moralistic American Blacks. Suppose the Great Satan had gone down there and saved people? That wouldn’t have been good. It would have made America look good to Black Africa and maybe even to Black America. Airdropping food and medicine would have relieved starvation and lots of people would have been grateful. So the Left kept quiet. It was just like the old days when Stalin murdered millions and the American Left stood by. The same can be said about staying out of the Sudan. The Hollywood Left was conspicuously absent at the donation table for Tsunami Relief. Maybe the left was of the opinion that we created the coastal villages so we could exploit the local populations with no risk to ourselves. We despoil their environment so we could get rich and enjoy ourselves. We donate money now so we can steal it later.

American lawyers, wittingly and unwittingly, aid their cause by destroying business after business—asbestos suits, tobacco suits, drug company suits—and threatening many more into increasing their costs of doing business. Most lawyers side with the Left Democratic party so they can make a killing, but their money helps energize the Left. Medical malpractice suits will force doctors into lawsuit proof Socialized Medicine, and Socialized Medicine will drain the economy, making it weaker. The old line Communist National Lawyers Guild stands ready to further the cause. They have stated very clearly that they see their function this way:

.....the role of the radical lawyer (is) to facilitate the coming anti-capitalist revolution by weakening the law’s ability to function effectively against law-breaking radicals

The ACLU has become a Leftist organization. Destroying the Christian religion is a prime goal of the Left because they know that a people stripped of their spiritual center is adrift on the sea of situational ethics, which in all cases can be led anywhere by “secular” elites. Environmental groups act to restrict business and seize land from isolated individuals for State use.

Why is the Democratic party controlled by educated well off elites and not worker bees? Workers don’t count in elite Democratic thinking anymore. That is because under the new Communist—whoops “progressive”—doctrine, blue collars have joined with the Capitalists. Workers are part of the problem to our current Left elite. They own cars, stock, homes and play golf---all at the expense of the Third World poor---and aren't interested in reform. Forty percent of union members voted Republican in ‘04, something lost on everyone, including the clueless Republicans. Especially including the Republicans. The workers “get” that contained within the Left ideology something is bad for them. Some think their religion is under attack or their life styles are threatened, or that their values are considered bad. They can’t quite put their fingers on it but they just know something ain’t right in Progressive Politics.

As a footnote to all this, our culture and universities are dominated by the exclusionary Left. They have long been in control of news media, college faculties, and our culture: movies, plays, literature, and art. That explains the totally leftist movie and book reviewers in major media, the asinine art criticism, and the inclusion of hip hop and other pornography on to the Left OK list. Their purpose is as old as Lenin when all media had be a part of the “class struggle.” Now all art is a part of destroying the old culture, a culture which in their view has as its central purpose the causation of Third World poverty. All art should be an agent in the destruction of religion, ethical standards, and sexual morality in dominant cultures. That is why college faculties are fighting tooth and nail to keep conservative voices out of academia. They know that conservatives will not buy into all this and will create an open debate. Open debate has always been opposed by Communists, as have all elections.

As an exercise for yourself, just try looking at things through a lens that shows all U.S. policy as aimed at the impoverishment of the Third World so we can make money. The purposes of “progressives” will be clear.

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