Our screwball, Latin American leftist neighbors have made a statement:
1. Capitalism is leading humanity and the planet to extinction. What we are experiencing is a global economic crisis of a systemic and structural nature, not another cyclic crisis. Those who think that with a taxpayer money injection and some regulatory measures this crisis will end are wrong. The financial system is in crisis because it trades bonds with six times the real value of the assets and services produced and rendered in the world, this is not a “system regulation failure”, but a integrating part of the capitalist system that speculates with all assets and values with a view to obtain the maximum profit possible. Until now, the economic crisis has generated over 100 million additional hungry persons and has slashed over 50 million jobs, and these figures show an upward trend.
2. Capitalism has caused the environmental crisis, by submitting the necessary conditions for life in the planet, to the predominance of market and profit. Each year we consume one third more of what the planet is able to regenerate. With this squandering binge of the capitalist system, we are going to need two planets Earth by the year 2030.
3. The global economic crisis, climate change, the food crisis and the energy crisis are the result of the decay of capitalism, which threatens to end life and the planet. To avert this outcome, it is necessary to develop and model an alternative to the capitalist system…
…13. Developed countries have spent at least USD 8 billion to rescue a collapsing financial structure. They are the same that fail to allocate the small sums of money to attain the Millennium Goals or 0.7% of the GDP for the Official Development Assistance. Never before the hypocrisy of the wording of rich countries had been so apparent. Cooperation should be established without conditions and fit in the agendas of recipient countries by making arrangements easier; providing access to the resources, and prioritizing social inclusion issues.
Translation from the socialese: “You suck. Give us your money.” Chesterton long ago pointed out that the fundamental flaw of the socialists is that they propose to be the successors of the capitalists – they propose a world changed from where a few business titans control the means of production to a world where a few government titans control the means of production. I can’t see the upside here – though I do note the rank hypocrisy of failed socialist States demanding of capitalist States that they hand over the swag, no strings attached (heck, you can’t even plow a field in Cuba without a permit…and we’re not supposed to even ask what they want to do with our money, should we give it to them?).
These socialists will wow the liberals of the United States with their declaration and I’m sure that if Obama is appraised of it he’ll say “I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message”. But the problem we have in the world isn’t economic and it isn’t environmental – it is spiritual. Solzhenitsyn pointed out that the problem of the 20th century is that we forgot about God – it remains the problem of the 21st century. If all we’re worrying about is per-capita GDP or how to lessen carbon emissions, then we’re just spinning our wheels as we hurtle towards destruction. We need to get God back to the center of our lives and start to build a society of justice, mercy, reason and, most importantly, love…love of our neighbors as we love ourselves, and loving God with all our heart and soul. With love, to be poor is no bane; to be rich is no boon if there is not love.
It’s going to get rather bad over the next few years – but, in the end, Love will triumph over hate, even hate wrapped up in a pretty, pink blanket called “socialism”.
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