unz | I am somewhat embarrassed to cheer the US
President for doing such minor routine things as firing an FBI director
or meeting with the Foreign Minister of a major state. Next, I’d have to
laud him for eating an apple or washing his hands (“Attaboy!”). But one
feels that the guy needs our encouragement for doing something right.
As the father of three boys, I know: boys need encouragement. And if
there is no great achievement to cheer them for, even washing their
hands before the meal will do.
Trump has a huge, Herculean task: to turn the battleship America
away from its collision course when all the important people in all the
important positions are deadly keen to run it full speed ahead. They
think the other ship will turn away first; but the “other ship” is
actually a lighthouse. It is the rock of the World-Island and its
Heartland. Why would so many smart Americans, Brits and Europeans push
their luck by courting war and disaster?
Exactly a hundred years ago, in 1917, Vladimir
Lenin discovered that the present system necessarily produces world
wars. It is not a question of bad guys or good guys, it’s the system,
stupid! He wrote about it a concise book called Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism,
radically updating Marx. The idea is that capitalism evolves from
dynamic competitive production to financial capital takeover, while the
financial capital unavoidably leads to wars. If financiers rule, war is
inevitable, he said, because they are insatiable.
Industrialists,
builders, farmers can and will stop at the limits of their territory,
but financiers always want more, and there is no natural limit to their
expansion. They want to colonise more lands, subjugate more nations and
suck up their substance. The only way to save the world from the horrors
of war (remember, Lenin wrote after Verdun and Ypres), is to get rid of
financial capital’s dominance (Jesus came to the same conclusion whens
He expelled the moneychangers from the temple).
That
same year, Lenin made his great experiment to rid his country Russia of
bankers and other exploiters, while earning their eternal hatred (and
volumes of fake news about his bloodthirsty cruelty, in addition).
History has proven him partially right: the countries that followed
Lenin’s path never began a war, and they never colonised other states,
though they did help some to get rid of their leeches and Western
interference. Soviet Russia is an example: it was a donor to all the
other socialist states, from Georgia to Afghanistan. (Perhaps the
communists had been too good for this world. After Russia was
de-communised, Russian income went up, while the incomes of practically
all the ex-Soviet states plummeted, unless subsidised by the EU.) And
they knew no war.
On
the other hand, the states that remained under bankers’ sway went to
war more and more frequently. They colonised or were colonised. Probably
none as often as the US, the home country for the Federal Reserve, for
the dollar and for so many great financial companies.
For
America, the next World War is inevitable, unless the Americans can get
rid of their financiers – and of their servants in the mass media and
other state institutions. My sympathy to President Trump has been based
on his antipathy to the moneymen. When he attacked the Federal Reserve
and Wall Street, he swayed me, and perhaps you, too.
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