Why Capitalism is a War Economy

Whenever we can find peace in our life, we are fortunate, because history has been a succession of wars. Unfortunately it seems largely impossible to escape history; there are always imbalances, always ongoing crises, always the plague of ignorance and bigotry. Capitalism is the logic of economics embedded in a culture of war. Capitalism is extraction, a competition for resources framed around scarcity, and it relies on political power and military violence for access to markets. Leaders in “colonial areas” of the world are bought and sold, the local populations mean little if anything to the oligarchs. Wars in Guatemala, in Nigeria, in Sri Lanka, in Iraq, in Vietnam… pick nearly any place on the globe and there has been a war near there in the last 50 years. Capitalism is the market mindset within the strictures of violence. The most overused term obviously is “free markets”. Logically there is never anything free (as if they were some kind of 'natural state'); all markets and ‘playing fields’ are created by the politics of power and violence. That is why material wealth is extracted from the “third world” to the first. They don’t even share the same world as we, you see. This is the normal psyche of racism and oppression. Yes, we have a long way to go to talk honestly and with integrity talk about a fair society. Our current search for decentralization is an attempt to subvert or avert the system. It may be progress, but we are still stuck in the unholy morass of capitalism... in other words; the almighty right of the dollar over all else. To see the world with new eyes, those of the future, that will be the beauty and the challenge.

Peace @ClumsySIlverDad