onlooker wrote:I do not dispute these succession of events. But that is just part of it. The other part is Globalization and how it has been designed by the rich and ruling classes to allow exploitation of the entire planet. Exploitation of the resources and of the people. So, we do not have to discuss Marxism or such. I never said Communism was some sort of panacea. But, I think you should admit the terribly unequal and unjust Capitalistic system. After all it is quite in line with your assertion of the primate underpinnings. In fact it is more fundamental. It is the Maximum Power principle seen in Ecology and among creatures within it. -snip-
I simply believe that there is nothing more fundamental than instinctual primate emotions instilled by evolution. The problem I am having with your viewpoint on this matter is the part of Marxism that you can't seem to let go of: the struggle of the social classes, which Marx dubbed the Proletariat (and you call the people) and the Bourgeoisie (which you call the rich and ruling classes).
In fact I don't believe those classes exist except as abstract concepts. In everything that one can measure about human beings, meaning intelligence and strength and visual acuity and even depth of emotions, ambition, and all manner of things, when you graph the results, you get a bell curve - with a low extreme, a bulging middle, and a high extreme. Individuals have a place somewhere on that bell curve, and one thing you could easily graph - because the government requires you to report such annually for purposes of taxation - are things such as income, capital assets, real property, personal property, etc. That which you call the "rich and ruling classes" are the high extreme of the bell curve.
There's no class of people who designed something called Globalization, or who conspired to exploit resources and people. Some people are better at such things than the vast majority, some are much worse, and suffer poverty for a variety of reasons. These people exist at different points on a bell curve of ability. Some of their behaviors cannot be taught, ever hear the term "trust fund baby", referring to an adult who is paid an income allowance his entire life, because a parent recognized a lack of ability, yet did not want their offspring to starve?
The Huffington Post is not a reasonable source of unbiased news, try balancing it with another publication such as
The Wall Street Journal. Read the differing news in each and then decide where the truth lies.