What it doesn't mention is that this is part of a well-established historical pattern under the guise of "making the world safe for democracy" when the objective is making the world open to control by Western-centric capital that has already captured the governments of the US, UK and EZ comprising NATO.
While Finian Cunningham and the publications he writes for often promote "radical" (conspiracy) theories, I came to pretty much the same conclusions he does regarding this. In fact, I would argue it more strongly as fitting the neoliberal pattern that Naomi Klein laid out in The Shock Doctrine.
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Putin, Not Ukraine, Is Vexing America
Finian Cunningham
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Social democracy means that the government owns everything and no piece of property and no one's body is safe from the mob majority vote.
ReplyDeleteThe present system is precisely what one would expect from a regime of funny money emissions that has the ability to regulate the entire economy for the alleged "greater good" or "public purpose" which are obviously undefinable and limitless.
This comment is off topic and out of context wrt this post.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, it is a superficial view of social democracysocial democracy, which has a long history and has been the focus of nuanced debate in which many conceptions of it have emerged.
There are critics that claim that social democracy abandoned socialism in the 1930s by endorsing Keynesian welfare capitalism.[149][150] Socialist political theorist Michael Harrington argues that social democracy historically supported Keynesianism as part of a "social democratic compromise" between capitalism and socialism. This compromise created welfare states; thus Harrington contends that, although this compromise did not allow for the immediate creation of socialism, it "recognized noncapitalist, and even anticapitalist, principles of human need over and above the imperatives of profit".[151] More recently, social democrats in favour of the Third Way have been accused of having endorsed capitalism, including by anti-Third Way social democrats who have accused Third Way proponents such as Anthony Giddens of being anti-social democratic and anti-socialist in practice.
I would state the fundament issue as whether capital is prioritized over labor and the environment, labor and the environment prioritized over capital, or capital and labor are treated as factors of equal priority.
It seems to me that people and the planet are of greater intrinsic importance than money and machine and therefore should be prioritized first. How to do that socially, politically and economically is a matter for debate.
Obviously, prioritization requires criteria and criteria are normative. Norms are foundational building blocks of ideologies and world views.
Justification of world views is not possible without overarching criteria that transcend preferences, attitude, opinions, beliefs and ideologies.
People disagree over what is self-evident, and the only universal criteria are logical pedigree and empirical warrant. But logic says nothing about the world, and there is often disagreement over empirical data and its interpretation.
So in the end it boils down to whose view is most powerful and able to exert control.