
Journal Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: A Marxist who is disillusioned with Communism 12
As if we needed any more proof that the communists and the corporatists are in cahoots and conspiring to commit treason against the United States, Lou Dobbs reported Friday that American multinational corporations such as Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and others have joined WITH the Communist China Lobby group in Congress fighting AGAINST the Department of Defense, who wants to restrict sending high technology there that could allow them to perfect their ICBM nuclear delivery platform.
This is not a partisan issue- it was Nixon who originally opened up trade with China, it was Clinton who expanded it, and Bush is just following their lead. But it is an EXTREME danger. The form of communism as practiced in China is little more than wage slavery- the grand majority of workers earn under $.50/hr, the minimum wage is $.34/hr, and a good many workers earn a mere $.20/hr illegally. The lobby likes to talk about "the market of a billion Chinese" to sell our exports to- but who the heck in China could afford a $189 Windows XP license?
But I do see the draw- our multinational corporations wish they could treat workers here that bad. And by moving factories overseas, they put downward pressure on wages and benefits that will result in exactly that situation. No wonder they're helping the Chinese- the Chinese are their hero, the example of what managment should be in their opinion.
Nobody who believes in freedom- either political or economic- should support this. There should be no question that when the choice is between trade and national security, trade should be shut down. But the Traitors will not shut down trade- instead they'll accellerate it. And we'll all pay the next time there's a fight over Taiwan- because it will be American cities being bombed.
This is not a partisan issue- it was Nixon who originally opened up trade with China, it was Clinton who expanded it, and Bush is just following their lead. But it is an EXTREME danger. The form of communism as practiced in China is little more than wage slavery- the grand majority of workers earn under $.50/hr, the minimum wage is $.34/hr, and a good many workers earn a mere $.20/hr illegally. The lobby likes to talk about "the market of a billion Chinese" to sell our exports to- but who the heck in China could afford a $189 Windows XP license?
But I do see the draw- our multinational corporations wish they could treat workers here that bad. And by moving factories overseas, they put downward pressure on wages and benefits that will result in exactly that situation. No wonder they're helping the Chinese- the Chinese are their hero, the example of what managment should be in their opinion.
Nobody who believes in freedom- either political or economic- should support this. There should be no question that when the choice is between trade and national security, trade should be shut down. But the Traitors will not shut down trade- instead they'll accellerate it. And we'll all pay the next time there's a fight over Taiwan- because it will be American cities being bombed.
Buy USA (Score:2)
Re:Buy USA (Score:2)
Re:Buy USA (Score:2)
In some cases, I'll just have to learn to go without I suppose.
It's COMMUNISM! (Score:2)
Why are we surprised when communist adaptions of capitalism are still heavily communist?
I want to know how much it costs to eat over there, what services the government provides, and what happens to those that can't work.
And, FWIW, if it's in the civil market, the military should expect it to show up
Re:It's COMMUNISM! (Score:2)
Actually, what was surprising was that the communist adaptation of communism was so heavily capitalist- this treatment of workers is straight out of the very robber barons that Marx was looking at and decrying against. Sure, they get *some* free food, housing, and medical care- but there's a reason why the peasants are abandoning the farms in Eastern China and moving to the coastal cities by the millions. These slave
I've been there...! (Score:1)
Re:I've been there...! (Score:2)
Just an example- all our military is really asking for is that American multinational corporations actually bother to cooperate in protecting their own headquarters. We live in a world of brainless monke
Re:I've been there...! (Score:1)
I think it is nigh time for a rebellion... too bad that even T.J. (I mean jefferson) wouldn't be able to move the slouches that make up america to action
Re:I've been there...! (Score:2)
I think you mean sociopaths- corporations are quite rational within the confines of the regulatory world we've built around them.
I think it is nigh tim
State Capitalism (Score:1)
By the way Japan was called state socialism during its rapid economic growth in 1970s. Now the storm of privatisation has been blowing very strong and in a transit to a corporate capitalism.
Re:State Capitalism (Score:2)
Call that protectionism if you like- but the truth is we do the best job for people we know and we see in person, and do worse work when we are not as directly related to the sales chain, which ends with shoddy products with a poor value beating out better products on price alone.
Re:State Capitalism (Score:1)
On my way to workplace, there is a huge debris of cooperatives building -it is just ruins. The mainstream of economy has been heading for just opposit to what you thi