now the next point to become aware of is that Marxism is
an economic system, not a political system…
so when one shouts, that is Marxism like social security,
that is simply false… social security is a political decision,
driven by political ideology and ran as a political position …
whereas Marxism is an economic system…not a political system…
and much of the failure to understand Marxism lies in the fact that
people think it is a political system whereas it is not…
and here lies the failure of Lenin and Stalin… they turned
an economic system into a political system and of course it failed…
political systems are democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, anarchism…
economics system are Marxism, capitalism, Mercantilism, and the
single most successful economic system of all time, hunter-gatherer…
which lasted a million years…
now the second point is we have our questions of existence…
“what am I to do?” “What should I believe in?” “what should I hope for?”
you cannot separate out our questions of existence without
understanding the point of our political, economic and social
systems we have in place today…
for example, “what am I to do?” is an political, economic and
social question…in a hunter-gatherer society, you have limited
choices as to “what am I to do?”… in our modern age, we have
a vast array of things in answer to the question, “what am I do to?”
today, to be a hunter isn’t a feasible economic answer to the question,
“what am I to do?” but it was one of the few answers to the economic question,
“what am I to do?” in a hunter-gatherer society… but you cannot
be a… computer programming in a hunter-gatherer society… it simply
isn’t possible…
so, the answer to the question, “what am I to do?” is just as much about
the current social, political and economic situation in use at the time of
the question…
we cannot go outside of our current political, social and economic
systems to answer the questions, “what am I to do?” or “what should I
believe in?” our answers are rooted within our political, economic
and social systems…
what brings about a change in any political or economic or social
system? usually changes in the environment that force a system to
change it nature…just like evolution is a response to the changing
environment… if an animal fails to adapt or change to a changing environment,
it will die… failure to adapt is the cause of death for individual animals and for
species at large…
we must adapt our political, economic and social systems to the ever
changing environment we live in…
and how do we know that capitalism is no longer effective…
we can see this by capitalism reaction to the ongoing pandemic…
capitalism has failed in its response to the pandemic…
we see this in our ongoing economic collapse we see all around us today…
we see this in the failure of hospitals to adequately respond
to this epidemic… capitalism as practice within hospitals,
have barely met the challenge of the pandemic…
and we can see the failure of capitalism in this pandemic by
the staggering number of job losses and the collapse of the
economy during this pandemic…if capitalism could have cope with
this pandemic, it would have… and we see the failure of capitalism
in America today… let us look at other countries to see their response
to the pandemic… take Germany for example, they had roughly 206,000 cases
with only a little more then 9,000 deaths…with a population of 83 million
people…why did they do far better then the U.S? I would suggest because
of their political and economic system being better able to adapt and change
to meet the ever changing conditions… and what kind of economic and political
systems do Germany have? it offers social security with universal health care
and tuition free collage… all of which in America would be called socialism
or Marxism…it is the very system which we condemn that has provided
Germany with the ability to adapt and change to meet the changing conditions
of the pandemic…
countries with a strong federal government did far better then the U.S has
during the pandemic and that is because the strong federal government allowed
the government to act and respond to the pandemic unlike in the U.S in which
any attempt to exert strong federal response is met with charges of socialism
or Marxism… and still millions die because we have not and we cannot respond
to the pandemic because of our economic and political system simply cannot
adapt or change to meet the ever changing conditions of the pandemic…
and we know that from evolution, a body that cannot adapt or change
to the ever changing environment is going to die, is going to fail unto death…
our current conditions is too complicated for capitalism to respond effectively
and that is a sure sign of the fact that capitalism has failed…
so we must change and adapt our political and economic systems to
meet the ever changing and ever more complicated environment…
as capitalism and democracy has failed the test of adapting and changing to meet
this pandemic… it must be changed…
but Kropotkin, we don’t have a democracy now… we have as a political system,
corporatocracy and this is why our political system failed…
corporations are unable to adapt or change rapidly enough to adapt or
change in time to met a every changing environment…
if we actually had a functional democracy, we could have meet this
pandemic with ease… but because our government is bought
and paid for by corporations, we are unable to meet this pandemic…
because corporations only exists to make profits, not to deal with
situations that lie outside of profit making… and so they are useless
and helpless as the world burns around them…
this crisis shows us the depths of our failure in the political and
economic and social systems we have in place in America…
we must change and adapt to be able to survive this crisis
and the next to come…
“what am I to do?”
this crisis suggest that we must find a new and more capable,
functional government that will be better able to cope with
and adapt to the ever changing and more complicated world
we live in…
Kropotkin