Editorial – 19 November 2011

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Capitalism versus Democracy – What Next?

by James Fairbairn – Chief Editor, Open Your Eyes News

One of the most pervasive myths of our modern civilisation is that capitalism only works effectively where there is a liberal democracy in place. The rationale behind this theory is that only a liberal democracy can provide the freedoms that foster the entrepreneurial spirit and innovation that capitalism thrives on.

If the events of recent weeks in Europe, with the banker takeover of first Greece and then Italy, show us anything it is that the last thing corporations want is free liberal democracies getting in the way of their raison d’etre, making profit and thus return on investment for shareholders.

The reality is that what capitalism really needs is certainty. stability and no accountability to its actions. The kind of certainty and blind eyes that only a strong and “business friendly” government can provide. Nothing ruins profit like a new tax regimes brought on by changes in Government, or fluctuating currencies, or too much scrutiny into nefarious actions whether it be environmental destruction or defrauding consumers or the tax office.

It should be of no surprise to regular readers of Open Your Eyes News to read this inconvenient truth. Daily we report on the ever increasing control that global corporations have over politicians and media outlets. We have demonstrated through over 4,500 articles that a corporation is single minded in its approach to the world, in a way that only a psychopathic entity can be. And through article after article we see our democratic institutions slowly broken down and chipped away as the world moves inexorably to that capitalist nirvana, a one world government, with a global paperless currency, and a constantly monitored population of sheeple compliant within a prison without bars. This is not science fiction this is cold hard fact and an understanding of the psychology of the machine.

Watching the evolution of capitalism over the last century has been watching Darwinian evolution in action. Ever larger and more successful corporations (predators) preying off their weaker competitors and always on the look out for competitive advantage and opportunity for profit. Over time these corporations started straddling the borders of nation states, and over time a few became more wealthy and powerful than nation states themselves. The process has been dynamic and is constantly ongoing. And despite their singular self interest, the leading predators started coalescing into packs, and ultimately one huge inter-linked pack. They may still pick off the weak amongst them, and there may still be differences in opinion as to the New World Order that they desire deep down, but the agenda’s trend is always dominant.

We are now at a point in this evolution that former US Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, describes as Super-Capitalism. The power and influence of the corporations is now so great that the very democratic institutions that are supposed to be there to over-see them and protect us from their excesses, are now subservient to them. Capitalism is dominant and democracy is just a shell of its former accountable self, mere window dressing for the compliant and herded masses.

This is no conspiracy, just psychology. Just look at the world around you where the democracies are at their knees, brought down by an addiction to debt, an addiction happily fed by their dealers (banks), thus enabling the predators to asset strip at their leisure – in this case the middle classes of the West.

Meanwhile the new model of “business friendly” government is rising to the fore, in the shape of the 21st Century’s new masters, China, possibly the ultimate corporation. A country sized corporation, not bound by regulations, human rights or the need to regularly report to share-holders. Single-minded in its long term goals, it gives its multitude of business units the latitude and support they need to become the dominant predators the corporate jungle as long as they comply to the central grand plan.

We are at a cross-roads in the evolution of our own society. True, independent parliamentary democracy has its weaknesses no doubt. As Winston Churchill said “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried”, however it is humanity’s  most effective protection against the predators, for protecting human life and the continuation of the human race is the only profit that really has any value. We the people must take back control before the window closes once and for all and we succumb to a dark, inhuman and ultimately self consuming future.

Capitalism does not need democracy. Capitalism needs to control democracy, and ultimately create a facade of democracy to keep the sheeple compliant. The future is here, now and all around you. It is not democracy or communism. It is fascism. In the words of Benito Mussolini “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” Unpalatable as it may be to accept, this is where we are at. How we each act now will have repercussions for centuries to come.