“Business is our
concern”, - w.t.o.
By Daniel Paquet, dpaquet1871@gmail.com
What a “marvelous” day it was when Soviet Union has been dissolved, exclaimed the bankers, the well-to-do of all kind, well, the big capitalists... At last, “cash” was considered as the only permanent value for mankind. No more question on the “object of life”!
Nobody would say anymore something like “hence the Good has been rightly defined as ‘that at which all things aim’...[1] [and] the science that studies the supreme Good for man is politics.”[2]
Nevertheless, the world seems the realm on unexplainable phenomenon linked to the psychology of the human species, namely its quench for wars. Man would be born as a dangerous animal, always looking to satisfy primary wants. Would it not be possible to explain that the motor of history is class struggle and the will of the dominant sector - today the bourgeoisie -, to monopolize selfishly the wealth of our beautiful blue planet?
“The bourgeoisie has through
the exploitation of the world-market given a cosmopolitan character to
production and consumption in every country.[3]
The conditions of bourgeois
society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these
crises? On the one hand by enforced
destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of
new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more
extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby
crises are prevented.”[4]
“Economically, imperialism
(or the ‘era’ of finance capital – it is not a matter of words) is the highest
stage in the development of capitalism, one in which production has assumed such
big, immense proportions that free
competition gives way to monopoly.
That is the economic essence
of imperialism. Monopoly manifests
itself in trusts, syndicates, etc., in the omnipotence of the giant banks, in
the buying up of raw material sources, etc., in the concentration of banking
capital, etc. Everything hinges on
economic monopoly.
The political superstructure
of this new economy, of monopoly capitalism (imperialism is monopoly capitalism)
is the change from democracy to political reaction. Democracy
corresponds to free competition.
Political reaction corresponds to monopoly. ‘Finance capital strives for domination, not
freedom...”[5]
“Formerly, the analysis of
the pre-requisites for the proletarian revolution was usually approached from
the point of view of the economic state of individual countries.[6]
“Now the proletarian
revolution must be regarded primarily as the result of the development of the
contradictions within the world system of imperialism, as the result of the breaking
of the chain of the world imperialist front in one country or another.”[7]
“American efficiency, on the other hand, is an antidote to
‘revolutionary’ Manilovism and fantastic scheme concocting. American efficiency is that indomitable force
which neither knows nor recognizes obstacles...[8]
But American efficiency has
every chance of degenerating into narrow and unprincipled practicalism if it is
not combined with Russian revolutionary sweep.”[9]
After the victorious Socialist October
Revolution of 1917 in Russia, the shift to People’s Democracies in Eastern
Europe after World War 2, the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China in
1949 and the emancipation of millions of people living in developing countries
of Asia, Africa and Latin America; the imperialism, chiefly US imperialism,
built up its own system of preservation; that is the occupation and threat
through its foreign military bases.
“The main sources of information on these military
installations (e.g. C. Johnson, the NATO Watch Committee, and the
International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases) reveal
that the US operates and/or controls between 700 and 800 military bases
Worldwide.
In this regard, Hugh d’Andrade and Bob Wing confirm the presence of US
military personnel in 156 countries. The US Military has bases in 63
countries. In total, there are 255,065 US military personnel
deployed Worldwide. The US is thought to own a total of 737 bases in foreign
lands.” [10]
The reader with a leaning towards capitalism will
surely feel safer, although he may already breathe freer since socialism does
not exist anymore in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, “a system doomed to fall,
anyway…” as proclaim the mass media. However,
“… socialism finally collapsed because the so-called course to the market
and privatization was taken and consistently carried out. This course, as a matter of fact, was the
anti-Soviet and anti-party course accepted in 1991 by the April Plenum of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which led to liquidation
of the CPSU and the USSR.[11]
To the honour of the Soviet economic science this course had been never
approved by any scientific economic conference.[12]
The path to the market economy accepted by the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU
was in outrageous contradiction to the communist nature of the CPSU and in
practice meant its suicide.[13]
Now after the bitter experience of the country’s destruction and people’s
impoverishment we wholly realize the incorrectness of the widely spread
allegation that a socialist society may be built on the basis of the commodity
production and the law of value.”[14]
The situation opened the door to fantastic projects in USA.
For instance, Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski who served
as United States National Security
Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981, came to the conclusion,
in the years 2000, that Russia should be torn up into various pieces that would
be under foreign control, with the overall support of the USA for
instance; the scheme was to provide a constant flux of natural resources to monopolies, such as gas,
oil and diverse minerals.
It was in direct line with his career, opposed to people’s interests,
“encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing certain
human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union;[1]
the financing of the mujahideen
in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment
of forces there[2]
(allegedly either to help deter a Russian invasion, or to deliberately increase
the chance of such an intervention occurring – or for both contradictory
reasons simultaneously being embraced by separate U.S. officials[3])
and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion.”[15]
We can say that
“… furthermore,
since in socialist society progressive development corresponds to the interests
of all of its members, the masses [must] take a most active part in it.[16]
Planning is another specific feature of progress under
socialism. Under previous economic
systems there were no objective conditions for cognizing and consciously
applying social laws, which operated spontaneously and destructively, in the
interests of progressive development. It
is only socialist society that provides such an opportunity.”[17]
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[3] MARX,
ENGELS and LENIN, On historical
materialism, Manifesto of the Communist party, Progress Publishers, Moscow,
1972, p. 87
[5] MARX,
ENGELS and LENIN, A caricature of marxism
and imperialist economism, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972, p. 489
[6] STALIN, J.V., The Foundations
of Leninism, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1975, p. 25
[7] STALIN, J.V. Ibidem, p.
26
[11] POPOV,
Mikhail V., Change of the character of
production in the process of construction and development of socialism, International
Communist Review, # 2, Athens, 2010-2011, p. 69
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