And to think, a mere 50 years ago these things were beyond the reach of three-quarters of the world's population.
You Communists are dedicated to returning us to that level, and more. When 1% live well and the rest live short, brutal lives, then you Communists will be happy. So it was in the USSR. So it was in Mao's PRC - so it is in North Korea. So it is in the dream you Communists have for all of mankind.
Murray Rothbard said that "Communism is ultimately the hatred of ones fellow man."
You demonstrate that well.
Do you blame Mao or Stalin?
"Food prices have risen 61 percent globally since December 2008, according to the International Monetary Fund. The price of wheat has exploded, more than doubling in the last eight months to $8.56 a bushel."
What does the corporate state have to offer?
"The corporate state has nothing to offer the left or the right but fear.
"It uses fearfear of secular humanism or fear of Christian fasciststo turn the population into passive accomplices.
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As long as we remain afraid nothing will change.
"Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman, two of the major architects for unregulated capitalism, should never have been taken seriously. But the wonders of corporate propaganda and corporate funding turned these fringe figures into revered prophets in our universities, think tanks, the press, legislative bodies, courts and corporate boardrooms.
"We still endure the cant of their discredited economic theories even as Wall Street sucks the U.S. Treasury dry and engages once again in the speculation that has to date evaporated some
$40 trillion in global wealth.
"We are taught by all systems of information to chant the mantra that the market knows best."
Does the market know best?