“We will bury you so gently, you won’t even know you’re dead.” N. Khruschev & Associates.
By Frank Roman
I’d like to preface my remarks by saying the following broadcast is based upon an essay written by our friend and colleague Mr. John Young of European Americans United, the entirety of which can be accessed on this page, Western Voices World News.
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MOST AMERICANS have grown up under the erroneous assumption that capitalism and communism are polar opposites, because the former system provides for private ownership of property, whereas the latter does not.
Like most effective lies, this misconception is advanced through the absence of full information, thereby leading to false conclusions.
On its face, capitalism allows for the ownership of private property; but upon closer examination, that ownership is illusory and conditional.
Under capitalism, most significant individual property – such as real estate – is purchased through loans which, if unpaid, serve to relieve the borrower of ownership of the property without even a court proceeding, even if the borrower has already paid the lender several times the amount originally borrowed.
Even if the property is owned outright, it can be seized by just about any lawyer. If, for example, someone slips and falls while on the property, a lawyer can quickly relieve the property owner of any ownership rights unless he has previously agreed to make large and lifelong payments to the insurance corporations. But insurance comes with myriad clauses and exemptions, including a long list of things the insured must do – and must not do – on his property in order to be protected. Thus, the owner is compelled to give up many of the assumed rights of ownership in exchange for imperfect protection.
Of course, no insurance protects property against government seizure. The IRS seizes 10,000 homes a year; and civil property forfeiture – where the owner of the property need not even be charged with a crime – is used some 3,600 times a day in America to seize everything from cash to cars to real estate. And as many people know they do it with bloodless efficiency.
In practice, then, ownership is illusory since there are a bunch of government agencies, insurance agencies, and mortgage contracts that tell people what they can or can’t do with their property; and it is conditional in that missing just a couple of payments, getting sued, or getting in the crosshairs of the government will terminate even the illusion. What an owner really has, instead of ownership, is temporary exclusive use within a set of guidelines established by mortgage companies, insurance companies, and numerous governmental entities.
Communism is often described as a system in which ownership of the “means of production” is vested in the state as a proxy for the people; which in practical terms means that control of the means of production lies in the hands of powerful elite. Capitalism is supposed to be different in that ownership, and therefore control, lies in private hands. In practice, though, this is not the case since control lies with government rather than the “owners” whose signatures are etched upon controlling documents. In a democracy, elections are controlled through media perception; so whoever controls the media controls elections in the main; and so, in practice, control by government also translates into control by a small elite.
Control of private business becomes vested in the government through the clever mechanism known as “incorporation.” Unincorporated businesses vest liability in the individuals within that business, especially the owner. Long ago, lawyerly notions of tort and “joint and several liability” created an environment in which no individual would be able to do business productively since all of his profits – and then some – could be gobbled up by lawyers at the drop of a hat. Thus came the idea of incorporation – in which the state created a corporation – an artificial person – in law which, at least in theory, the owners could control as a proxy while limiting their civil liability. The problem lies in the fact that a corporation is actually a creation of government rather than the creation of an individual, and therefore, once created, has to live under laws of government that would affect corporations but not individuals. Natural persons have rights, however imperfect; but corporations do not. Likewise, the laws for corporations were crafted by the very same lawyers from whom people seeking to gain some protection through incorporating were trying to shield themselves. As such, incorporation is just another scheme for vesting all important control in the hands of a regulatory elite, while reserving all the liabilities for the flesh and blood owners.
Similarly capitalism is advertised as promoting competition and thus lowering prices for consumers. In practice, this is not the case. What actually happens is that large corporations establish a sort of feedback loop with politicians who need money for campaigns. This feedback loop creates an environment in which regulations which prevent competition are passed. These regulations serve to create such insurmountable barriers to entry into the market that only the largest of corporations that have surplus cash for a large contingent of lawyers and regulatory compliance officers can even hope to compete. Thus, capitalism serves to stifle free enterprise and creates artificially restricted economic environments that serve to raise rather than lower prices. Since the only thing that Capitalism provides over Bolshevism is the ability to openly profit; it stands to reason that the drive of capitalists is purely a profit motive.
Two notable examples of this are the fact that many corporations that notoriously pollute the environment will move manufacturing facilities to countries with fewer environmental regulations rather than invest the money to comply with stricter regulations in their home country. Likewise, corporations have no loyalty to the people of the nation in which they were formed, and seek to reduce the cost of labor through any legal method, which increasingly puts the people in Western nations in direct competition with low wage or even slave labor in the Third World; with devastating long term effects in terms of both national wealth and labor displacements. Corporations even sponsor the importation of alien labor, forcing domestic wages lower, favoring public service systems, and placing the genetic continuity of European Americans at risk, all for a profit.
These examples, again, show no difference between Capitalism and Bolshevism in that, in the end, both systems have the same effects and therefore only differ in methodology. Legislation in Capitalist systems serves to create de-facto state enterprises in important sectors such as media and electricity, while pollution, wage depression and globalization without regard to cultural preservation or preservation of human bio-diversity work the same in both instances.
How can these systems be so similar in their results?
The first answer lies in their remarkably similar fundamental premises. Fundamentally, both systems see man in a purely economic or materialistic sense, with humans being interchangeable with each other as long as productive work is accomplished in the most profitable fashion for whomever is in charge. The very term “Human Resources” used in so many corporations spells this out pretty clearly. Aesthetic, historic, evolutionary and spiritual aspects of humans aren’t considered by either system except insofar as they affect production and the maintenance of control by an elite. (Elite in terms of position, not necessarily merit.)
The second answer lies in the matter of control. All economic systems, no matter whence derived or their ultimate motivation, are run by humans; and will tend to take on the character of the humans running them. The cabal which runs today’s capitalist system is a continuation of the same cabal which ran the early USSR. In fact, many of the capitalists exercising ultimate economic control in Russia today and funding section 527 political groups in the United States today were tightly connected with the communist and underground criminal apparatus during communism. The fact that the original funding for the Bolshevik revolution was provided by bankers in the United States should speak volumes about the true nature of what is going on; and the fact that Capitalists and Communists are actually allies rather than foes. When the New York bankers funded the Bolshevik revolution, they were making an investment – but it was not an investment in purely economic terms. Rather, like all banking investments ultimately turn out, it was an investment in the control of human beings.
The complementary nature of the two systems can be further seen in that Americans considered themselves to have been the victors in WWII, in which they aided the Communist USSR in taking control of all of central and eastern Europe, which went on to plunder and murder by the millions. The communists, lest it be forgotten, murdered approximately 65 million people in the USSR and Eastern Europe. Even before WWII, it was widely known that they had murdered 20 million people, yet our capitalists and media establishment readily allied themselves with that murderous regime, referring to Joseph Stalin publicly as “Uncle Joe.”
Clearly, both capitalism and communism treat humans who are not part of the controlling elite as resources for production and achievement of the goals of the elite. It simply turns out that capitalism is the more efficient system for that purpose. And really, when you think about it can we not also conclude that America’s soldiers, who are often described as our best and brightest by neoconservative corporate mouthpieces, are fighting and dying to preserve the very “achievements” we’re describing here? Capitalism, like Democracy, is an idea that was foisted upon Western peoples through linguistic subterfuge. The word “Democracy” never appears in the U.S. Constitution, and neither does the term “Capitalist.” The United States was designed to be a Republic, in which the responsibility of the government was to secure the blessings of liberty for the posterity of the country’s founders. The founding fathers abhored democracy as a horrible system that would allow the best and brightest – who are always fewest in number – to be dominated legally by mob rule. They so abhored the notion of debt that is so integral to modern capitalism that they mandated a gold currency in the constitution, and even wrote bankruptcy as relief from debt and the abolition of debtor’s prisons into the constitution as well.
Over time, the elites who now run things have managed, through clever lies a little at a time, to pervert our system of government into a pluralistic democracy, while having people believe that such a concept is “American.” These same elites have managed to pervert our economic system of free enterprise into a capitalist system in which the element of freedom is distinctly lacking, while convincing people that capitalism – even when it ships jobs overseas in droves – is “patriotic.”
However, as demonstrated above: it is a lie. Free enterprise is not an outgrowth of capitalism. Rather, capitalism squashes free enterprise and subjugates people, just as does communism. Simply looking around with wide open eyes should reveal this to anyone not glued to the television.
As a final example, one should recall that the Bolshevist system labeled people who uttered politically incorrect thoughts as ‘mentally ill,’ and forced them to be treated for that ‘illness’. Under capitalism, when John Rocker, a plain spoken Midwestern white man and professional baseball player gave voice to his candid thoughts regarding the New York City subway system and the freak show he observed there, his corporate employer forced him to undergo ‘therapy’ as a precondition for keeping his job.
The Greek playwright Euripides noted that “A Slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.” John Rocker couldn’t speak his thoughts any more than a resident of the USSR.
The portrayal of capitalism as a road to freedom just as Bolshevism’s portrayal as a road to Utopia is a lie. It’s just a different road to the same envisioned global slave plantation ruled by an elite. The good news is that lies – all lies – have a limited lifespan before they and their great deceivers, are revealed, rejected and reviled. The time draws nigh for the revelation of the lies and the unmasking of the liars. The time draws nigh for free enterprise, true ownership of property, and freedom from control by purveyors of philosophical poison. The time draws nigh when, once again, European American can speak their thoughts without fear; which means that the slippery ones will have a great deal to fear, and had best be packing their bags. The time draws nigh when the system as we know it will implode like something heavy and rotten under the very weight of its decaying carcass. Indeed, the evidence is everywhere and we urge you to look at it.
For a more in depth analytical comparison on this subject please read the research paper by Mr. John Young called’ Failures of our Age: Capitalism versus Communism’ which appears on this news site. And never forget: Be strong. Stay safe. And fear no one.