tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post4396544786745630014..comments2023-08-13T12:20:53.393+01:00Comments on Anything that defies my sense of reason....: Antagonista TV #911: Capitalism Hits the FanThe Antagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-68119952116924186152008-10-25T16:16:00.000+01:002008-10-25T16:16:00.000+01:00Ho ho ho! Marx appears to have tipped the balance...Ho ho ho! Marx appears to have <A HREF="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/10/has-karl-marx-b.html" REL="nofollow">tipped the balance</A> a little. It seems people, even among readers of the Times, have recognised the limitations and self-serving nature of the beast. <BR/><BR/>So the best course of action, obviously, is if we all pretend it isn't happening and piss about blogging about the puppetry of the penises that is the dwindling days of the four years in the making Red, White and Blue "election" in the United Mistakes of America.The Antagonisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-58141964256153378882008-10-22T21:09:00.000+01:002008-10-22T21:09:00.000+01:00Bridget: Almost 50/50 amongst readers of the Times...<B>Bridget</B>: Almost <A HREF="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/10/has-karl-marx-b.html" REL="nofollow">50/50</A> amongst readers of the Times in competition with the usual raft of paid keyboard monkeys. <BR/><BR/><B>LWTC247</B>: Rather than focusing on specific aspects of what might have led to this point, the issue is instead that the entire system is screwed, inherently corrupt and always has been. As if that wasn't enough to be getting on with, its value is based on nothing more than invented nonsense mutually agreed by small groupings of interested parties.<BR/><BR/>Money has no inherent worth other than that arbitrarily decided by those who control the money. It is after all nothing more than a piece of paper or a metal token that acts as an arbitrarily decided representation of real material value.<BR/><BR/>Many hark back to the days of <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system" REL="nofollow">Bretton Woods</A> yet, as hinged on the material wealth of gold as that is, irrespective of how long it has operated as such, the system is no better than the invented numbers of today. Gold has no inherent value other than that associated with the amount of oppression and destruction required to extract it from the earth.<BR/><BR/>Effectively, we're at financial ground zero with our eyes fully open to the fact that the various value exchange mechanisms upon which we have been suckled for millennia are quite obviously not ones that best serve the greater mass of humanity.<BR/><BR/>It is time for a new world order, but it's not going to be the one that ruling elites have been crowing about for a good number of years because it is the greater mass of humanity that does all the things that do have real, provable, useful, material value.<BR/><BR/>Simply, they need us and we don't need them.The Antagonisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-58109795172579398252008-10-22T16:42:00.000+01:002008-10-22T16:42:00.000+01:00Another video to ponder:Why Wont The Bail Out Work...Another video to ponder:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h9-tBGxVU6o" REL="nofollow">Why Wont The Bail Out Work? MUST SEE!</A><BR/><BR/>Includes the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble.Bridgethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04220942517267393608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-47894138816846774832008-10-22T16:26:00.000+01:002008-10-22T16:26:00.000+01:00Watched the vid afer B posted it on StefZ's site. ...Watched the vid afer B posted it on StefZ's site. It was good BUT he didn't nail the most significant aspect of the miserable "crunch" that that is the trade in derivatives. Yeah the working class hav been ripped off from the 70's its the inherent nature of the system, bit just because wages were frozen.<BR/><BR/>Commune-ism has its merits but the good prof cast the bermuda short wearing workers as operating within the curent system - commune-ism within a capital sctucture.<BR/><BR/>Ultimately then, it too would fail as it is the system of money and trying to extract the largest amounts of money from a position of advantage that feeds this devour-all beast.<BR/><BR/>Still... Very well delivered :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-44673936902853715502008-10-21T16:25:00.000+01:002008-10-21T16:25:00.000+01:00A sign of the Times? (Expect a load of cynicism):K...A sign of the Times? (Expect a load of cynicism):<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4981065.ece" REL="nofollow">Karl Marx: did he get it all right?</A>Bridgethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04220942517267393608noreply@blogger.com