Freedom Theater

From The Freedom Theatre Foundation, Jenin, Palestine

04.46 (gmt+2), July 27, 2011

Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee
Camp at approximately 03:30 this morning. Ahmed Nasser Matahen, a night
guard and technician student at the theatre, woke up by heavy blocks of stone
being hurled at the entrance of the theatre. As he opened the door he found
masked and heavily armed Israeli Special Forces around the theatre.

Ahmed says that the army threw heavy blocks of stone at the theatre, "they told
me to open the door to the theatre. They told me to raise my hands and forced me
to take my pants down. I thought my time had come, that they would kill me. My
brother that was with me was handcuffed."

The location manager of The Freedom Theatre, Adnan Naghnaghiye, was arrested
and taken away to an uknown location together with Bilal Saadi, a member of
the board of the Freedom Theatre. When the general manager of the theatre,
Jacob Gough from the UK, and the co-founder of the threatre, Jonatan Stanczak from
Sweden, arrived to the scene, they were forced to squat next to a family with four
small children surrounded by about 50 heavily armed Israeli soldiers.

Jonatan says: "Whenever we tried to tell them that they are attacking a cultural
venue and arresting members of the theatre, we were told to supt and they
threatened to kick us. I tried to contact the civil administration of the army to
clarify the matter but the person in charge hung up on me."

Egyptian Dialogues

Day one of the Labor Dialogues and here is a summary.

The first two speakers were both body workers...one was from London and an x literary agent and the other was from Egypt and a homeopath. They were both wealthy by any standards and westernized. The revolution was galvanzing and both felt they had to fight for the future because they had young children.

The other speaker was from an institution in chicago called CAIR which has to do with Islamic tolerance in the USA. He is convinced the revolution was fuelled by the youth and didn't mention the unions in his talk...he was right down in Tahir Square, is well spoken and has lots of good stories.

Other people have said the revolution was backed by the CIA because Mubarack wouldn't join in a coalition against Iran.

People are angry the US supports Israel and assume it is a plot against the Muslims...what we are suppose to say is it's a humanitarian crisis.

Made a contact with a woman from Norway on the plane who has been their many times...and has adopted a family of Palestinians whio live in Cairo.

Many people here argue Egypt is poor becaue the people don't have a good work ethic and it has nothing to do with colonialism. If only we worked harder...

Though it is a well known fact the US backed Murbarak and continued to support him right to the bitter end.

The people here are friendly and warm and toursim is way down...which ain't good for a country that employs 10,000,000 in the tourist trade.

Walking by the Nile in the morning is nice...watching the Germans row their Olympic style boats at sunrise is surreal...the golf course in the middle of the embassy district is well taken care of...

The hotel is on an island in the middle of the Nile.
Rarely do you see poor people...

Egypt

Leaving the computer at home and taking a smaller device on my trip to Egypt.

It is all a trap with only one way out or as Wilhelm Reich says

(as quoted in the book End Game by derrick jensen “volume 1:the problem of civilization” in the chapter Bringing Down Civilization

gotta say in my own pampered way i don’t want that to happen…

I’m a rich white and male we got it good…

destroy the thing we created…but at all levels things are getting worse…socially…pornography body punishing, austerity, greater pay inequality, nonrenewable resources depleting, the oil sands, less common space, less public discourse, cruel punishing third world work routines.   

It is possible to get out of the trap. However, in order to break out of prison, one first must confess to being in a  prison. The trap is man’s emotional structure, his character structure. There is little use is devising systems of thought about the nature of the trap if the only thing to do in order to get out of the trap is to know the trap and to find the exit. Everything else is utterly useless.

Singing hymns about the the suffering in the trap or writing poems about the freedom outside the trap written from within the trap, or building a philosophy of despair around living in the trap as Schopenhauer did, or dreaming up a superman who would be different than everyone else in the trap as Nietzsche did, until trapped in a lunatic asylum he finally wrote the truth about himself

Get out of the trap.

Reich goes on to say we all know how to get out of the trap but because of some internal conflict we don’t want to exit…like he thinks we want to…he says only a few get out of the trap at night while everyone else is sleeping.

In Canada Harper encourages the largest ecological disaster on the planet with the oil sands, is building super max prisons and will push a omnibus crime bill through…to fill the jails…

the poor will be spending less time on the streets. 

elitist thinking…this notion we are in a trap with an escape hatch is an interesting idea…do we all really want freedom from this earthy exiztence?

…our ideas imprison us…or is that lack…

the oppressor yearns to control the mind of the oppressed…

the conspicuous consumption is getting more conspicuous…

looks like the labor convention is shaping up like half holiday half pretending to be important…of significance is the grassroots organizers or the workers in the factories and industries like the Suez canal and textiles…

what is at stake is it that passage…

does not appear that we will be meeting with any workers as far as i can tell…

tomorrow at this time…i’ll b hi above the pacific.

over and out from the NA NW.                       

Hi Hio

neoliberal capitalistic philosophy

is so prevalent

that the big environmentalist groups

are seen as merely negotiating

the rate of dezttruction

 

unions are seen

as bargaining tools

with no teeth

 

the disparity between

the north and south

is so prevalent

that solidarity is

virtually impossible

 

the well paid workers with

a home, car, food and internet

and benefits and pensions cannot relate

to an Egyptian seamstress…

 

my guess

In egypt we will not be talking

with many of the workers

instead to academics

and others

jockeying for position

 

I’m going to hit the street

and see what’s really going

 

Egypt would elect

a working party

into power

if there was

a real democracy

but the neo liberals

wouldn’t stand for that

and have already infiltrated

the region with NGO’s

media personnel

academia and the rest

of the liberal class

which include the military

 

exploitation

of nature and others

unfortunately most working Egyptains

are financially illiterate when it comes

to world economics…they are only supported

by a system they do not understand or control. 

as i flush the toilet and run the water

at an old joke…

 

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

two billionaires spend their

money on foundations that are

digging the trenches of capitalism

deeper and deeper which only

hurries things along…

capitalism must grow to survive

or are we going into space? 

Organizer

Though i cannot stand unions,

i did organize in the

Canadian province,

of Alberta 

and am now heading to Egypt

with some of America's

outlaw union dudes

who as far as i can tell

are still putting up a fight

 

if the poor people

or the working people

of the world believe

that somebody cares

in the west…

 

dining well in a

foreign country

 

What is generally not discussed

on the left of today is going from A to B

as Marx famously pronounced

 

Anarchy rocks

 

Marx said  capitalism

was necessary

to free oneself  from nature

then communism for heart

and eventually the state would wither

 

the critique of capital

is beautiful and standing

though i have

never read it.

g-school

Jun’s

brother kyle

was treated

badly by his father

as well

Linda’s brother

Ronnnie was treated

badly by his father

4)

in shanghai

he is 84 years old

living in a building

six flight of stairs up,

bathing on Sunday

news at six

ate heartily and well,

slept early and well

and was up

a couple of times

in the night to piss.

4a)

his forty year old

daughter in the morning says

she has seen a ghost

he says he is old

 

but he assures her

he is not

 

4aa)

yells at the woman cleaning

our cloths at a yellow bucket

in a flirty way…

 

he’s picky

just looking

for problems

 

no

gives her twenty…

when she asks

for 15

 

wash the floor

 

4b)

jun bought a

three bedroom condo

for him and his neighbours

think he is rich

 

from a super rich family

tutored at home

and the communists

took their land

and killed her

grandfather

he was ten years old

4c)

forced to flee

worked with glass

making thermos

4d)

he poured poison

in his sons ear

when mixed with water

it would implode

he would yell

you are not my son

 

5

the son has very

smart daughter

and a greedy wife

who waited five years

for him to come back

from Australia…

5a)

when he got back

they got married

lived with his father

and it took her

one year

to get pregnant

5b)

they stayed

two or three years…

5c)

his father said

he would take

his wife's eyes out

and paid six farmers

so they would leave

5d)

he called his

two uncles

and his wife

brought her brother

5e)

three family

against six farmers

5f) 

even if he loses money

she’ll pay

5g)

a Chinese baker

earns money slowly

in Australia

5h)

you’re careful

with your money

5i)

unlike me

who has inherited

large sums

I play freely

in the stock market

and am up

a 100k

5j)

kyle gives his sister

5000 dollars and

I have lost $20,000

on an unreasearched

stock play…

truly Chinese solar

6.

the embarrassment

of the rich

is mildly entertaining

and perhaps that

is as illuminating

as it is pathetic

6a)

I myself

am deeply flawed.

and will bet on the Canucks

at seven too one

6b)

Account 3e75

Canadian #8ghfg25457

USD #4864fds124

Alex on the five star

ext 3131

opened one week

and one day

before the gyp

sept 13 2011

as I sit high

on good old bc bud

2.

I’m off to the world

that never ends…sleep

then in a couple

of days battle

with father

whom I could not

run away from

at thirteen

or punch

at twenty 

 

chronic fear

compulsively 

abusive parents

dismantle esteem

Not Just Ecology

In the context of dollar hegemony, many poorer nations must hold large quantities of American dollars or liquid, dollar denominated assets because they know they will eventually need those dollars to import oil and other essential ‘commodities’.

The world’s two overwhelmingly dominant oil markets, the NYMEX and the IPE, insist that all oil transactions be made in U.S. dollars.

That means that nations such as China, India and Japan, together with those developing nations which lack large oil reserves, must sell goods to earn the dollars necessary to purchase oil.

The central banks of the poorer nations must hold foreign currency reserves in dollars or U.S. Treasury for protection…in case their currency goes down  against the dollar.

This is exacerbated if a poor nation is carrying a heavy debt load, owed to the IMF, and denominated in dollars.

This is how i would say it:

The US dollars                                                                                                             is in fact the only currency

that can be used…to buy oil

as defended by the US army

if iraq is any indicator

countries will be slow

to switch  

 

the US people behind the US…world…the social scientist call it imperialism…what capitalism is about…new markets and market share…a class struggle…exploiting the planet and the people…was Rand right?  

 

 

(it doesn’t matter about the ideology)

bringing  us closer to anarchism…

(aside)

i don’t identify coinservative,

liberal or New Democratic Party  

 

 

intentionally…

i don’t believe people believe

they are exporting violence,

yet by the system

they benefit from the system

and are guilty by participation.

 

Though unadvertised there is choice.

 

…the rich don’t ask how those behind them are getting on  

by living on the surplus user value of the poor…

workers in the world will never be able to buy

the product they produce because of profit .

ie if i make 10 cars for 5 dollars

and the owner sells then for 8

and pays me 4.50 per 

I can’t afford to pay eight…

I'm sure Marx explains it better.    

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i

am flying to Egypt more better

than work 12 hours a day

seven days a week

in a factory

making something

you don’t believe in

which i guarantee

somewhere someone is   

 

capitalism has captured its people,

they have been brainwashed

into thinking they are free…

they have been atomized

and turned on by their own.

Their wages have been cut,

their time has been controlled 

*********

 

a quaker lighting himself on fire

is treated as legend in Vietnam

while causing McMarana grave doubts

almost forgotten for ending the war

the opening…and instigator of bravery 

***************

 

the writers

are propagandists

even for the truth…

which cannot exist

in this fuzzy, fuzzy 

night of computer screens

 

the only communities

the rich and the poor

the middle class got duped

the good guys, the guys

who wanted to believe

who went to war

for the right reasons

who wished for the dream

and tried

but their never

was a dream

the most privilege

even the smart ones die.

 

me          

the poor lonely suburbs

wasting away with out purpose

 

or glory

or even a benign existence

 

in small rooms

with electrical devices

 

the laughter

of a family dinner

a thing of the past.

 

peace out      

Investing

Now when i invest in the stock market I can not have big picture thinking for the short term. Capitalism has been incredibly robust and i suppose in many ways we are better of than we were a hundred years ago. Now i can type on a computer and be part of this new nerve centre as Hilary Clinton calls it

She would have been a better President than Obama, at the very least she knows the halls of power while Obama has had his hat handed to him many times…as i have had mine handed…

i have lost 20% of my net worth since March and am at least two thirds out.

I have little knowledge of the means of production

or really what i am buying…

this is how far removed from reality i am…

yet i have profited and am now able to redirect these funds to more useful  ventures?

oh yeah like what?

Forget that i make time by making money

or the freedom to listen to myself 

other people have to pay with time…

so much per hour to support themselves

when the markets move and in a sense i am winding down.

I am playing in a virtual world…

if anything the stock market is a construct which enables  the wealthy to accumulate more wealthy while fooling others into believing they are shareholders and joint owners have a take

it is different holding  a hammer

than holding stock…

one is abstract and fueled by greed…

greed is good…and focus on self

selfishness becomes narcissism 

building something fueled by a need to contribute

is not the popular trend…

greed and hubris

based on entitlement

which is the benefits 

with out effort syndrome

raised by children of baby boomers

who were guilty of being born into times of incredible wealth and innovation…and unfortunately the advent of the human growth and development movement which was an extension of Hegel’s enlightenment project which was chronically underfunded in terms of long term thinking…or at least checked by hesitation and doubt,

as a species we are too sure of ourselves                  

whatever momentum Obama had he has lost,

he has not placed the blame of the economic crisis

where it belongs,

as Lenin predicted the market

gets more extreme as the end nears

 

this system

of fueling growth

by borrowing

runs into

the contradiction

debt is eternal

and necessary 

while growth

is at best sporadic…

 

if one is to profit

from the decline

of civilization

then it is best

if one is a “shorter”…

i.e.bets on the failure

of capitalism or a stock

going down…

 

they say equilibrium

i say Communist.

 

or look at the companies that know the game…even if the copper mine idea never gets out of of the ground the chances of the owners losing money is not possible…they don’t take chances…and they just bide their time…

i am investing in solar stocks which operate at about 17% efficiency..they need government subsidies to be successful yet are part of a loose plan too wean us from fossil fuels…I have lost 20,000 USA dollars since i first got involved less than a month ago…the fossil fuel has stored energy while the sun is current…

I would imagine the current system has a ways to go and I’ll probably run higher losses…if i stick with green energy. So far listening to the Pundits have served me poorly…i bough GE which the president said was still going to pay a dividend then he cut it and i lost 50k…and now solar which is going bankrupt is  my new great idea and other ethical investors

…i would rather have a bookstore that generated a little income and was a good place for people to meet and talk and drink good coffee than play this fools game called the stock market…        

the government funding comes from a fossil fuel  driven economy

ex) homes and work places are far apart. i.e. a car economy.

Fossil fuels will be around for a while and are centered in the middle east…where i am heading in less than two weeks…which should be more engaging than investing in joint stock ownership companies.   

Over and out from Lu Lu Island.         

September 8/2011

Well what’s a lazy

neo liberal activist to do?

 

The planets heating up,

the rich are getting richer,

the poor are getting poorer,

the monies is coming

from ‘somewheres’

 

globalization will create

a super wealthy class

of which i will be a member

 

rich countries are getting poorer

the average well being

is going down

in terms of health and education,

the prisons in the us are full

crimes against other humans

crimes against property

and surprisingly

crimes against self…

just carrying is trouble…

drugs that is

guns are fine

and poor countries

like the Philippines

poverty is not improving

the material world is shaping us

as Marx clearly understood

the nightmare of sitting

in front of screens

cut off from life, each other

and our selves…this is urban.

 

Subsistence farmers want to improve their lives so the narrative goes or so the religious redemption story goes which seems to run deep…the next life will be better or worse so if i am born seven foot two and co-ordinated i believe i deserve my fame and wealth due to attributes i did not work for my height and my co ordination i can not be proud of something i had no choice in unless i

believe in some divine spirit or meta narrative which is evolving which seems to be the case as the world becomes more and more complex,

most people look to simplify…

the rich neo liberals who go to the farms and write books about their experience…which is more bliss like, than fighting with the communists on an island in the Philippines…

here no one wants to shoot

you for working the land unless you own it…

remember the diggers…

this land is my land

this land is your land…

forget about the owners…

 

if you(most of you) imagine

they don’t exist

they don’t…

owners that is…           

 

this cannot be understood

through the lens of capitalism

which is my cup of sorrow.              

Smart People

soory for the spelling errors no tiome to proofread

The smart people, lawyers from Connecticut, PhD's from the World Bank, statisticians, professional organizers, etc. etc. cannot determine whether or not remittances are helping with the development of the working persons country.

Some argue it goes only to conspicuous consumption while others say it helps alleviate poverty by improving shelter, food, clothing and education

or the consumption of said services. As the neoliberals argue the invisible hand of the market will provide as people vote with their money and with their feet…the problem is supply…too many workers helps drive down the wages as real wages have been declining since the Reagan Thatcher takeover…which was exasperated with the fall of communism and the tumbling of the wall…

even at Labour Events the Marxist Leninist are ignored…which leaves no intellectual underpinning for a collective beyond the betterment of the organized workers, there is no framework in which to place a larger narrative..the NNDP party may have a chance now with younger voters…people may  want a change and Ignatieuff is an idiot if he thinks the Canadian people are stupid enough to fall for his shennanigans…what a joke and Etioboke too…i know thsoe people and they are not stupid..      

a problem that is not mentioned is the fact the workers are dependent on other countries governments…

so as is happening now as a retarded shady prince put it

“Why should we be employing foreign workers(Filipinos) when are own workers were unemployed…”

now that we’ve beaten them(our workers) down with scab workers(migrant workers) labor will be less(wages will be down)…

the workforce is dispensable.

Migrant workers will be consumers and

speed up the extinction of more animal species

that is a given.   

Capitalism makes strangers of us all.

Working for the collective is a different endeavor and more likely to end one up in jail…in anti communist parties…the agency will not come from the exploiting classes…or countries…ones in the middle who can see both ways…little pockets of humanity in late capitalism is misleading and divergent…

one must look the horror in the face.      

 

 

an education in a hyper-consumerist society will create a consumer…

the consumption pattern hi-jacks the effort reward equation and thus promises instant gratification which the internet reinforces…

i think the computer is slow if it takes more than a few minutes for it to warm up…

and i feel pressure on my time…as if i don’t have enough…and being a long term slacker i feel little inclination to join the rush to nowhere but off i must go to add my two cents to the labor movement in Egypt, not so much in an historical perspective but in an unwritten unspoken knowing for sure barring a strange accident which almost seems prophetic I will be in Egypt before the end of the month.

My return ticket is in a month, but goodness gracious if it isn’t more interesting than Richmond maybe I’ll stay after all i am almost done. The cabin i rent in the iwnter on the beautiful gulf islands may not be up as the owner  has had an infection of the eye area and this i believe is called graves disease.                      

Remittance World Bank Western Union

I am having a difficult time keeping pace…i am working on a Remittance Paper, focusing on the Philippines when the very notion of remittance,

the concept of one countries labor force,

being exploited, in the wage system,

as a communist, is not something i support

and do not want to waste my time reforming

                                which my NGO wishes

 

(capitalism) does notequalize the north__south divide

and in fact institutionalizes it.

Opposing the fees for transporting the money

is like fighting slavery with a union

 

fair wage and workers co-ops, take back them means

A worker From the Philippines is paid ten dollars/units per hour.

The question is one of units as they can be interfaced

but time is still no match for technology

which promises surprising immortality…

brought forward as a trend a thousand years from now…

technology is linear and in fact has a certain delineation…

 

the narrative

that which made us great

manipulating symbols

has simply made us

mediocre. 

 

the Philippines

as the best option

feels like a death watch…

hiring poor people…

is noormmal

neo capitalism advanced as

The End of History 1989

was well read 

 

nothing grows forever i whine

Hegel's notion of a thesis was accurate

Popper and Schopenhauer were right.

 

the strange existence i find myself in now…

immersed in words and writing…symbols again …

the arts as a whole are nothing better than shit wipe…

*******

it will get hotter before it gets worse

and the dark night of the soul can attest

to this value but economically the working man 

since 1980 has steadily seen his ranks depleted…

his jobs exported

Marx shouldn’t have tipped them off

agency for a revolution my ass…

the capitalist cut’em off at the knees

and the working man is

in the service industry and crime

mostly, mostly unorganized 

 

witch hunt…

unions are seen

as a relic of the past

and no longer needed…

there is no class structure

no racism, no sexism, no bigotry

everything is fine

 

along comes the tea party 

 

surely now or in the near future

change will transpire quickly

when the young people 

get more educated

***********

rehabilitate the planet by leaving

her alone for a generation or two

she’ll be fine…

 

contrary to science

who for the most part

have been bought off

the planet fine and

environmentalism

is a diversion.

 

and a symptom

in that strange

beautiful

logic

 

A Vow of Poverty

us rich

no very little

of the constant

grind

which really

ain’t so bad

and the choice

of many holy men.

 

met one the other night

 

stooped from Tibet

with jaundiced eyes          

999999999

religion 

“Money is the Root of all Evil.”

The new agers

say this is  not spiritual

as do the Evangelists  

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Poor people from other countries

are being used to undermine

local people, who’s standard of living

requires a higher wage,

the farm workers in BC get

$9.28 an hour which drives down the

market price of labor…

 

jobs are available but Canadian people

do not feel an hour of boring hard work

is worth ten bucks, not from zero

but from welfare…

colonized countries citizen work cheap

 

the aid industry

cries otherwise,

no statistical advantage

in reducing poverty

“the Filipina” in global terms

are lower middle class,

they are not

the poorest of the poor…

America has

exploited them continuously

since 1898

 

now the aid industry

led by the Americans

is saying lets lower the fees

for the remittances

 

you have bad milk in the fridge

lets get rid of the smell

so we can have a drink

 

workers organize

at a government level…

ties will be broken with the USA

US will shout terrorist

sanction and

cut off trade routes

…

plum jobs in developing countries

now you have to work the farm…

which almost no one wants to do now…

as that is a constant reminder of death

and life and a tired body

and a sedate mind ,

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technology is a strange beast

growing…this does not appear to be a revolution 

the numbers for the internet are staggering…

close to 40 billion e-mails a day…

easier to stay up to date

with what is happening back home…

faith of the Philippines…their language/

religion hijacked

…a curious kind people

\patronizing/ ?/

the dominant culture quickly projected wishes of glory and power

to overcome some inner deficit,

outer world i became a god amongst men…

what is the motivation for aggression…?

a survival of the fittest?

include the intellect.

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private property

our own subjective experience

which is as boring as the blogs?

another beginning

The remittance industry is the result of many individuals migrating for economic reasons and with as many stories

as the working person has ever had

not for national reasons as reported by Steinbeck and the Grapes of Wrath.

It is not country to country but is in fact a person to person

financial institutions of one sort or another profit from.

As the government deregulates the banks,

more and more companies get into the business

and the fees go down…

the world bank in all it’s benevolence has said lets only charge these workers five percent, let us appear liberal and fair while the very structure of capitalism is unsustainable and as the working class gets annihilated in first world countries being replaced by a middles class

which is far cheaper than the well developed middle class

the rich get richer not by a little but by a lot

aspire to this orgy of privilege and freedom….

this slow march to pure spirit

appears misdirected by excess

and soulless transactions…

future have we really forgotten the past…

rarely do i hear it spoken.                                

Western Union

We handled nearly $67 billion in cross-border consumer-to-consumer remittances in 2008. The Company generated $5.3 billion in revenue and $1.25 billion in cash provided by operating activities*

The President makes slightly less                                                                    than a star US sports athlete,                                                                            clocking in at less than

nine million a year…                                                                                              or $4500 an hour[i]

I know he is smarter,                                                                                        better educated,                                                                                                       lighter skinned                                                                                                            better born

In Kuwait a OFW** is paid                                                                                  $200 a month or $1.25/hour.

a year and a half equals his hour

In a decade                                                                                                              she does not earn                                                                                                                                what he makes in a day

and the really funny part is

he has lots of customers

just like her…isn’t capitalism grand?  

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*from the Annual Report

[i] assuming a 40 hour week

**Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW)

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I bet he doesn’t feel exploited

but I bet she does……….

Is the precious resource,

“heart beats ” really more

valuable in a capitalist

than it is in the proletariat?

one calls himself an

honorable business man

yet his sense of fairness

is dictated by the market.

liberal democracy infers elitism

and subtly encourages oppression

the smooth faces of the well fed

well rested and well paid  

***************

The capitalist cannot show his face

to the commoner anymore

and in fact spends most of his time

in private restaurants, clubs, houses (gated),  

and resorts for  the rich  

^^^^^^^^^^^ 

if I act in my own self interest

this will be in the best interest

of the greater good

this is the notion of the invisible hand

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A Canadian Book

willfully denying that

extreme wealth

is an admirable trait,

Billionaires are Bad 

***********************

Now we have the notion of freedom

but when one looks closely at the choices,

one is modified not radicalized.

Have a home or be homeless…

one is the vast majority…

the other is stigmatized

Even Marx called the most disenfranchised of society….scum

and believed the working class would be the agents of change.

We all need to wake up, grow up and show up…

state the new age monks in their enlightened timbre

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if i had a a rocket launcher…i’d bomb them first…

Hey Marx

Marx’s essay, On the Jewish Question, originally published in 1844 contains the following:

What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

More Marx and Engels in the Communist Party Manifesto

Capitalism has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage-labourers.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i. e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.

Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race. But the price of a commodity, and therefore also of labour,[35] is equal to its cost of production. In proportion, therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by increase of the work exacted in a given time or by increased speed of the machinery, etc.

Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. Masses of labourers, crowded into the factory, are organised like soldiers. As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants. Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself. The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful and the more embittering it is.

No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.

The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family relations, modern industrial labour, modern subjection to capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national character. Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.

The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.[45]

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence:

Abolition of private property.

We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man's own labour, which property is alleged to be the ground work of all personal freedom, activity and independence.

In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom! And rightly so. The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.

On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.

But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the whole bourgeoisie in chorus.

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women.

He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production.

For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists. The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

Our bourgeois, not content with having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each others' wives.

Bourgeois marriage is in reality a system of wives in common and thus, at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with, is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalised community of women. For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private.

The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality. 

The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got. Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation,[47] must constitute itself the nation, it is, so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word.

Nevertheless in the most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common p!an.

8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction[50] between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.[51]

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc., etc.

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The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter.

This school of Socialism dissected with great acuteness the contradictions in the conditions of modern production. It laid bare the hypocritical apologies of economists. It proved, incontrovertibly, the disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour; the concentration of capital and land in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities.

In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.

In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.

Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

WORKING PEOPLE OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

No more lattes or hot yoga…

Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit,
But rather say: In the afternoon of time
A strenuous family dusted from its hands
The sand of granite, and beholding far
Along the sounding coast its pyramids
And tall memorials catch the dying sun,
Smiled well content, and to this childish task
Around the fire addressed its evening hours.

Robert Louis Stevenson

September 2nd 2011

Commodification shapes the physical process of work itself and our understanding of it. Work becomes dominated by rationalisation, a high division of labour, repetition and obsession with quantity rather than quality.

The finished article no longer appears as the object of a process at all. The fragmented process of production of the object ends up producing a fragmented subject:

‘The personality can do no more than look on helplessly while its own existence is reduced to an isolated particle fed into an alien system.’

Reification* then has three reinforcing effects on consciousness.

---It hides the real, human relations of capitalism;

---it makes the system appear as  if it is driven by an inhuman, preordained logic;

----and it makes workers feel powerless to do anything about it…

that is wicked.

The abused is psychically trapped

and unable to physically move

oppressor/oppressed is best

according to Rand

and her disciples

including Alan Greenspan

and the Chicago boys…

 

the social has been reduced to media…

more words are being produced

about the same old problems…

even i the great canadian author

will be writing a report

on why the

remittance campaign

is a failure of the human spirit,

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one group of

mothers and fathers

leave their children

to come work

raising the children

of other

…………..>>

mother and father 

Filipino nannies,

poor people

from oppressed

worlds

are in demand

english is better 

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capitalism does not

include a human element…

the relationship is transactional…

how many units for me?

how many units for you?

surplus is good.

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we say the global economy

is collapsing and if it does

there goes the business of aid…

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if the transaction is a

hierarchal communication

based on might,

whether physical,

monetary, psychically

is not seen as cool

and is in fact

heating up the air…

with pollution and bad poetry   

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and the usa

has a hold

on the Philippines

and the bases in

the middle east

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this at first glance

would appear irrelevant       

September 1, 2011

Hung-over…

not in that terrible

15 beer way

a nice 6 beer evening

with Chinese food

before sex

and sex

before sleep.

I have been fantasizing about a large breasted waitress lately and volunteering four hours a day for ACORN international where I am selling the founders books and am suppose to be writing a report on the Pilipino remittance industry.

This is supposed to be the country we are modeling regarding remittance fees. The money that poor people send back home is being taxed by the rich people, taxed by the banks, but if we ACORN and World Bank get out way these fees will be capped at 5%.

The World Bank says competition will bring these fees lower and ACORN says we need to have government regulation.

Living in a corporate state is not the same as democracy. If corporations can touch and charge upon everything you do they are happy.

you are merely a beneficiary and not an active participant in the sway of life…

you are constantly receiving and being told you should be receiving more…this is entitlement which is benefit without effort and an expectation of such…everything is amazing and epic and awesome.

Went to an open mike to see a band and they were ok.

As we entered the parkade, June and I, I heard this deep laughter shake the night. I could see no one. I walked to the front of my car and looked over the edge. Two men were standing there and one was sticking a needle in to his wrist. I was not surprised and got in the passenger side. I was too drunk to drive.

a guy said it is about game theory and this is how the marketing people are shaping your life.

this is not a story about a slacker well yes it kind of is.