Feasible solutions

Lots and lots of ink and millions of bytes, both on newspapers, magazines or internet, have been lately used in so many writings about recent political, economical, financial, social, environmental and even criminal events worldwide. Analyses, recommendations, suggestions of all kind have flooded all sorts of media, be it corporate or alternative, in one or other direction, according to one or another viewpoint. However, I’ll refer exclusively to those pointing towards indignados, occupiers, revolted, rebelled, furious, outraged and mad, fed up, etc. people around the world. No feasible or recommended solution is offered so far to get off the chaos.

Please let me point out I’m not intending to criticize those actions nor what’s being written; on the contrary I’ll aim at helping if at all possible to obtain better concrete results than those up to now.

Please let me also point out that all I’ll be writing comes out directly from the horse’s mouth; therefore, start assuming all as sincere, frank, positive and well minded.

All of you are perfectly entitled to doubt. Who am I to pontificate? Who am I to give any piece of advice to all of you? Well, I’ve just mentioned that all would directly come out of the horse’s mouth. Yes fellows, I was one like you. I was directly involved in a similar struggle for years and nowadays I’m happily enjoying its outcome and results; therefore, I’m indignado no more; on the contrary, I’m a happy satisfied revolutionary.

It’s widely accepted that POLITICS is a science, social though; therefore, subject to human character. It’s not definitively an exact science like math or physics for it takes into account variable human values. As per accepted ancient definition, democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people; thus, for the benefit and welfare of persons and those goods fostered by politicians, i.e. persons dedicated to politics, in other words to take care of persons’ problems, wishes and desires, both personally and collectively.

Politicians should always aim at solving societal problems, but their behavior to be restricted to three specific values, namely, truth, importance and value. Let’s sum up. Whatever action undertaken by a politician should be IMPORTANT, VALUABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY.

All above lead us to an obvious conclusion: almost no country the world over is democratically governed but by fake, false and deceptive democracies. Almost no nation the world over is governed by real politicians but by technocrats. Most are disguised democracies directed by corporations or entangled corporate groups.

Needless to say those pseudo democracies don’t work for the benefit of the people. They work for their own greedy selfish interests. How has that happened? Easy, they cheat and make us think they work for us when they’re really working for something different. Ruling groups are expert at maneuvering and calculating every step to set up and perform their plans, but they also carefully consider how to make us swallow that. Nothing is frank and sincere, nothing is trustworthy.

By following a carefully calculated scientifically designed plan of action they let us know only what is convenient for them to inform and for us to know.  Thus, they don’t release what’s important but convenient towards their selfish interested goals.

We all know that economy is of paramount importance for all societies. The eternal rule of thumb clearly indicates that collective wealth is to be equally distributed among society members; but justice – a longly forgotten word – says that such distribution is to be done by giving to all according to their needs and taking from all according to their capacities. The same rule of thumb says something absolutely obvious: the wealth of a nation is to be distributed with justice among its members and that have been done nowhere for years. Otherwise you would have not come to a dramatic conclusion: most of the wealth goes to a negligible percentage of the population, something you clearly and widely express, we are 99%.

Evo Morales, the indigenous Bolivian leader, once said that they got fed up while asking politicians (?) to solve their problems, so they decided to take power for themselves to solve their own problems. That’s a way, perhaps the sole way. We took it after a horrible struggle against a mighty powerful enemy and the job is not entirely finished yet, but we keep on fighting and achieving justice for our people.

All of you have shown more patience than us. You have been squeezed by your necks much longer than us. One possible explanation could be that the mask we had in front of our eyes was easier to throw away than yours. Our advise, take off that mask, cleanse your brains, demand no more to traditional leaders for your problems solutions, get united and organized, get rid of traditional pseudo politicians and take power by yourselves and for yourselves.

The key is union. People united can’t be defeated. You are much more than them. You’re 99%, so start up and go ahead. The sky should be your limit.


SOCIALIST MOTHERLAND AND VICTORY  - WE SHALL LIVE AND OVERCOME! 

Christmas letter to Maggie and all “Indignados”

Dear Maggie;

Let me answer publicly your heart touching email and I profit from this opportunity to address it to millions of outraged all over this world. As a matter of fact, we know each other since you were born and your daddy was, and still is, my fellow student and one of my best friends. I’m sure he has told you about many episodes we lived together; specially the night we met the first time that I cheerfully remember. How could I possible forget that September night, Jewish New Year Eve, when he and his Israeli companion Tzvi Rosenberg arrived in our room to be shared and their surprise when I wished them Happy New Year in Hebrew? But, more surprisingly to discover I was not Jewish but Venezuelan Catholic. Dearest Maggie, that was the first step towards an incredible friendship between an Orthodox conservative Jewish and a South American revolutionary. Along the following months we talked and talked, deeply knew each other and exchanged information and the best of all was that stereotyped barriers, lies, mendacity and misinformation were demolished. By exchanging information we got along and still keep on going strong some many years later because we were able to overcome religious, social, racial, cultural, and many other slight artificially created human differences.  You are now possible wandering why I’m telling you about themes you know since long. I want to stress the importance of true information, a right you have been always denied by corporate media in the USA, and the rest of the world, who never tell you the real truth, a behavior obeying a strategy to keep your mind and intellect in submission. They don’t actually wash your brain; they inoculate it with a poisonous matter to make you think and accept whatever is convenient for their interests.

They create the so called “induced desires” or “induced needs” to push you into buying what the also so called “consumption society” is interested at selling to foster corporate earnings. Actual elections of political candidates for important governmental positions are restricted to those who can pay for it, but also those with corporate support and actually sell you presidents, senators, representatives, governors and mayors exactly the same way they sell soap, automobiles or beauty creams, and recently to invest in hedge funds.

They induce fear for you to accept and support wars and interventions around the world so that gigantic corporations loot other nation’s natural resources they need at the lowest possible prices and, of course, obtain maximum profitability. The creation of artificial fear is twofold; you end up accepting and supporting their actions, but also accepting your own freedom and liberty reduction.

They keep you in absolute ignorance about other peoples and nations. The least you know about them, the easiest you accept their destruction.

Nowadays, the whole world is in total convulsion. Europe and North America are stirred by an ever growing mass of discontent people. But, why is it so? Of course, you perfectly know most of the reasons.

Don’t be surprised for telling you that South America is the exception in this unhappy and angry world. Why? Please let me explain a few facts.

South America and specially Venezuela is undergoing a special historical period where social needs are paramount but you know nothing about because your media hide what is going on or they just lie, be it by twisting the news or publishing half truths which is a way of lying. I pointed it out in previous writing, we are not indignados, and we are not outraged although we were several years ago. While Europe and the US are protesting and demanding social rights, such as salaries, pensions and other benefits reductions, we are having our benefits increased. While you scream for jobs, our unemployment is being drastically reduced; while your poverty rises to unforeseen heights, ours is on its way to disappear; while your educational system is having more and more limitations, ours is expanding and more and more boys and girls, even elders, obtain better education for free because education and health, as well as cultural, environmental, economical, housing, shelter, nourishing and others are constitutional human rights.

At last but not least, while lots of people are ousted from their homes due to the mortgage crisis, our poor people are moved into homes of their own, some of them enjoying governmental subsidies.  

I have told you only a few practical facts to illustrate some of present differences in either region; however, I must stress on the fact that the US and Europe are practically lost while looking for a way to end their crisis. They will not. Capitalism is definitely reaching its final stage and there is no possible way to stop its disappearance, sooner or latter. Capitalism used to find ways to cope with previous crisis while they used capital to produce material goods and not for speculating. According to scholars, capitals moving around the world to speculate are 75 times superior to the share used for real production. That is not just a bubble; it’s a time bomb due to explode with catastrophic consequences.

Turn around your sight towards a different experience. Our peoples and leaders have found ways to escape from the general overall crisis. You and others may wonder why and how. It’s easy to answer. Their first priority is precisely what yours have secularly neglected, PEOPLE.

When we were struggling and fighting against the most powerful enemy the world over, we were highly optimistic. We went to battle laughing and singing for we knew the final victory would be ours. The war is not over yet but we will overcome. So, my recommendation is to keep your spirit high, to be optimistic and confident the victory will be yours provided you do unite yourselves. Unity must be your motto.

Meanwhile, in spite of the fact you are suffering and fighting in the middle of a terrific battlefield, my best wishes are for a splendorous Christmas Season and I hope and pray for your best in 2012. These special greetings have nothing to do with creeds or religions, rejoicing is another human right, so, rejoice yourself whenever possible, and much better always.

SOCIALIST MOTHERLAND AND VICTORY  -  WE SHALL LIVE AND OVERCOME!

You were warned

The historically prevailing system has used an easy method against peoples for centuries that has not much evolved and has remained almost unchanged. That method has been applied the world over ever since the invention of capitalism and just for a little refresher I’ll mention only a few of their “glorious achievements”.

May be you remember from your history and literature lessons that the first “modern” documented exploited were poor Europeans splendidly narrated by Charles Dickens from England, Victor Hugo from France, among others famous authors. Next step, once Europe’s poor had been bled almost to death it was then the chance for Africans to suffer their part for centuries. In a chain of shameful bloody events China, India, Latin America and almost every third world country were abusively extorted, looted and drained.

It is now your chance to sip the same medicine we are experts at. We know a lot about and we can teach you how to get rid of them quickly. We learnt at the school of hard knocks and for sure we never flunked.

Capitalism defrauds, extorts, sucks and drains off whatever they can in terms of natural, human, financial, monetary and other resources. And be aware, keep your mouth shut and better smile otherwise their reaction is, as I previously warned you, the most brutal and criminal repression. They just don’t care how many are wounded, injured or killed; they merely merciless crack upon the slightest sign of discontent. I purposely said “discontent” for I don’t want to mention the word “rebellion” yet.

They have had sufficient time along several centuries to develop a completely tangled up system that entirely works for their interests. Banking, financial, economical, political, social, cultural and other aspects are interrelated in such a way it’s almost impossible to tackle each one individually, all of them are parts of a complicated network and back up and support each other thus getting something near invulnerability.

Just to mention one, banking system draws money and richness out of people’s pockets and piggy banks. Bankers put not even one single damned penny of theirs. But, what do they do with our money? Easy, they lend it to themselves, almost never to the real owners. Now, imagine a repetitive occurrence; a bank lends money to a company of theirs, the directors rob it and the company goes “bankrupt”. Should it be one single company, there should be no special consequences; however, think of it in terms of many huge enterprises. The bank officially collapses but the reading should be that bank directors artificially created an anomalous situation to grab all what people have deposited. The end result is that many people are defrauded, extorted and exhausted but bankers become richer and richer. On top of that, bankers go to the government they control and ask for money (bailouts). Additionally, they then go to their controlled media and give many nonsense explanations to convince robbed people to maintain peace and keep quiet.

Should people get mad and protest, you know what automatically happens. Politicians they control order brutal repression. The final result is that people is not only sucked but clubbed, wounded, killed, disappeared or put in jail for years on top.

Go to the fountains, do some research and find out what happened to previous generations, many of whom are in oblivion, missing or dead. At best, poorer than before.

Solution? Forget about traditional politicians. They ask you to cast your vote for candidates of their choice, never yours, and later impose disguised dictatorship. Bipartisan system is a fallacy and that we know for we did suffer it for years.

Forget about traditional politicians and take power for yourselves and by yourselves. Enact your own laws according to your best interests and dreams.

Time has come to expect nothing from them but from you.

Is it difficult or unreal? No, it is not. Even though it is a difficult solution with many problems to solve and takes time to implement, we are in that course of action against all evil forces that want to destroy us and our achievements. The enemy is the strongest in the world, old and new empires, transnational corporations, the world banking and financial system; and even worst, internal fifth columnists, traitors, lackeys and sepoys.

Never forget, you are the 99%, many more than them. They are extraordinarily organized and you are not. Get united and organized; the sky should be the limit. We wish at heart the best of lucks for all of you. We offer our solidarity, moral support and advise just in case you think you need it.

The present spread movement is named in Spanish speaking countries as “Indignados”. I have not found an identical term in English. Indignado (singular) means someone whose dignity has been trampled. That’s your case. Wake up and force them to stop trampling you forever.

SOCIALIST MOTHERLAND AND VICTORY  -  WE SHALL LIVE AND OVERCOME!    

The wealth of the Nations

Adam Smith, supposedly the first economist ever, was the first to coin the term “the wealth of the Nations”, however he skipped the explanation on what to do with it. Ever since people all over the world have always quarreled to grab it in order to satisfy particular types of greed, several theories have emerged to justify different aims.

According to capitalism, especially neo liberals, they take for granted that wealth and whichever they can obtain is for them; and them exactly means the richest aristocracy.

According the communist point of view it should belong to society in general.

There is a third approach that I shall do may best to explain later on.

History is full of pages describing different kinds of wars that took place even long before the so called economical science was invented as well as afterwards. If war description pages are numerous, more pages are dedicated to justify such wars and, ironically, most are or were based on moral an ethic principles there being the contradiction that lots of people are killed in order to save people but impossible to see a written statement or hearing an oral one mentioning the real reasons to provoke them, controlling and looting natural resources and other richness. What were actually the true reasons behind all colonial wars and interventions along past centuries and present times? Positively, justifications are or were not self defense, national interest protection, hindrance to national citizens, etc. Hypocrisies, cynicism, blatant lies widely hollered at their best.

Another question should be posed. Who benefits from wars? First of all, let’s define war: Old people who know each other shove young people who don’t know each other to die on their behalf in order to secure their interests. Summing up, war is for money but we have talked so far about conventional warfare where armies confront and said nothing about other semi silent wars made of small or large battles with no rifles, ammunitions, shots and brutally massacred persons. I properly refer to common everyday struggle to make money to live, struggle known as work, where common and ordinary people use their intellect, their sweat or both as weapons against a stronger group who exactly needs their best performance to make money for the group, but doing their best to yield the least. This statement means in plain common slang, come and screw up yourselves to death producing the most for me for as nearly possible as free.

It is widely known that capitalists are always speaking of competition. That is an absolute fallacy. Stronger enterprises do whatever they can to eliminate competition by eliminating weakest competitors in order to obtain for themselves the absolute dominion of markets; i. e. creating monopolies and impose their will, which means their prices, their quality, and their quantity, to create a permanent crisis of supply. It occurs that several corporations might remain in a certain segment of a particular market; in such a case they wind up agreeing on a dirty term, cartelization. Creation of cartels means an agreement among exploiters to impose their will on consumers who are in turn the majority of the population and force them into paying obscene prices thus yielding immoral profits. In simple words, the term highly regarded by economists and other technicians is the so called profit maximization. 

Originally, capitalists “invested” part of their wealth, i.e. disbursed actual money to buy equipment and machinery to elaborate useful or useless products to be sold; raw or semi-elaborated materials to be transformed into final products; land and buildings where to operate; office equipment and supplies, and so on and so forth. They exploited their workers and their customers.

As from recent times they don’t invest in physical assets. How come? Then, what do they do instead? The answer is not naive; they hire weaker investors to produce for them, in other words, they buy products at cheap prices to resell at the highest the possible, thus they exploit smaller (weaker) producers and consumers. The operation of buying goods to resell however involves some risks and eventual losses; so, they found out a better and less risky method that required no physical investments, no depots, no personnel and no waiting time. It’s easy to imagine and know. They decided to buy papers, be whatever called, bonds, tittles, shares and other imaginable or unimaginable “legal” denominations. The sooner they sold such paper, of course at higher prices, the sooner they realize their profits.

Production of physical and material goods involves the existence of so called added value. Paper trading involves nothing, no added value whatsoever. At the end of every transaction nothing has changed except an amount of inorganic money that has no good incidence on the overall economic system. Nothing is produced, nothing is transformed, and there being no added value, there is no capital gain to improve or contribute to enlarge the so called real economy. Capitals growth with no real economy growth is a fiction since no labor (employment) and no new goods to enter the economy stream creates NO benefit for the general population. That’s what they call it Financial Economy or Speculative Economy.

Speculative Economy, also called Financial, produces nothing for the people and the society in general but for capitalists. Paper being sold time after time at higher and higher prices with no control, just to satisfy personal greed, contributes nothing to the National Wealth, thus there being nothing to share among the whole population. But there is a tremendous risk involved which is the mathematical impossibility of infinite growth known as the pyramidal system. There is certain time when the artificially created bubble explodes. Now, they don’t exploit workers and customers only; they now exploit society in general.

Think for a while what the National Wealth good is for. After only few seconds you would quickly reply that is should be to share evenly among members of society. Well, that simple assertion does not happen in a capitalistic society: wealth is not fairly distributed; the larger part of the common wealth that belongs to all goes only to a few, usually to the top 1% of the social scale. Then, what about the other 99%?

Well, I have already explained you what I had promised in the fourth paragraph above. To round up, I only need to mention what I consider the best possible governmental approach. To be short I’ll only repeat 1819 Simón Bolívar´s words:

The most perfect Governmental System is the one that produces the greatest sum of possible happiness, the greatest sum of social security, and the greatest sum political stability.

And that, naturally involves the National Wealth equal distribution among all inhabitants. How to share? Easy, with health, education, nutrition, housing, infrastructure, science and technology, culture for all are and should be the main items.    

SOCIALIST MOTHERLAND AND VICTORY  -  WE SHALL LIVE AND OVERCOME!