January 8th, 2009
The Davos Debate
A came across this on you tube a minute ago and it annoys me mostly. It’s one of those projects that try and push the idea of real debate and an open fourm to discus ‘new’ ideas when it’s anything but. You just need to watch the videos and look at the polls to see how narrow the debate is, the discusions have been decided really. It’s just propghanda at the end of the day to say ‘hey look we have changed, we are good now!’, when they haven’t they are just trying to save their skins.
You know it’s nothing new either, Capitalists throughout our history have been willing to give up on their free market ideas in favour of regulation in the market if it means saving their little system, and a few years down the line they will be pushing for de regulation again in the market. It’s what we would call a ‘old boys network’, ‘socialism for the rich’. The people at the top have no princpals, no idiology really, just greed. They don’t believe the rubbish they spew about the free market and capitalism being the best way to lift the world out of poverty and all that. The sad fact is that while class consciousness amongst the working class has gone down it’s clear from the events that have happened that the rich have maintained their class consciousness despite notions of a ‘classless society’ with Nu Labour.
I suppose what concerns me and no doubt will happen is we will re brand the problem as the solution, unless people unite together and say no! Radical change is needed, and I believe that socialism is the answer, the system we have now doesn’t work, it’s clear the majority of the world live in poverty and capitalism has done nothing much to change that. When you take away the gloss they put on the system all it has done is create misery in the world.
But they use fear and lies to discourage the general population from any real change in society. Class Conciseness is the key. The solution really is simple, once the majority agree then there’s nothing they can do. The corporations, corrupt governments in the world only have the power because we allow it. If we all said, no, and took real democratic control then there is nothing they could do.