Communist Fantasies

I would like to keep this capitalism free of communist mannerisms. But recent developments over our constant search for energy sources has led me to become disillusioned with the democracy I am living. I think we are tending towards the inequalities of Eastern European politics and the oppressive Soviet management. I can see the analogy to the oligarchic rule that plagued the ex-Soviet Union. This has occurred because of the way in which people are being arrested or deported to countries like Syria for punishment or are being held and tortured in outdated prisons without legal address only because they are suspects. I would have expected the illegal torturing to have occurred in countries where arms are still chopped off when a person steals or in countries with a known record of human rights atrocities such as what occurred under Stalin or Brezhnev Brezhnev was responsible for having invented an excuse to invade Czechoslovakia to keep the Soviet hegemony over eastern Europe and maintain communist party control. It was to herald the end to the “Czech Spring,” and the end of the liberal movement in that country.

We in Canada are largely disillusioned with the money laundering politics of the Liberal party. Martin never accounted for his poor financial balance and the Conservatives who are reminiscent of the Russian old guard status quo are taking advantage of this drop in liberal favoritism. For the first time in many years the Conservatives are gaining votes in Quebec because of a power vacuum there. The fact that most Quebecois are against the policies for a separate French province is also helping him and the liberal leader is totally deficient in being able to hold any proper discourse to bring an economic recovery to the province. The carbon tax is a total absurdity. The Conservatives will continue to keep the oil gluttonous companies happy and little will be done to reach Kyoto accords or see a real change in what cars run on the roads. This does not sound too distant from Russian styled politics aimed at feeding the public lies on what they need and keeping the average citizen away from knowing our real foreign political intentions.

I am encouraged to know that communism has failed in Eastern Europe probably not by the reasons that we are fed but by the futility in their maintaining a dominant sphere in regions, which hitherto did not want the rule of one party politics which modern communism is privy to.

One has to know that living in a capitalist society dies not mean I have a free choice in determining what the future can be but I can fight the status quo, express my opinion without fear of being arrested as an “enemy of the state”. To keep this country free of ever becoming a place where one party rules means that I should be able to make tangible choices and this is not the case. Whichever party wins power I am likely to support the continued deployment of Canadian troops in an undeclared war. I am also indirectly supporting energy giants like Exxon who have the government in their pocket by continuing got to push for more oil and gas drilling when we are supposed to be moving for more energy friendly sources.

One has to know how capitalism has been able to survive whereas communism in the form of Soviet Bloc style or Maoist leadership hasn’t. Man has a natural tendency in wanting to own what he has and not be dictated to about how he has to get there. Man will often follow a model and the model of sharing appeared to be practical and simple enough at the start but it favored the politicians who became corrupt and funneled wealth to themselves like the late Romanian leader Ceausescu did before being hung for his crimes against the state in 1989.

Much of what was intended as communism is not what Marx and Engel intended. I used to say that if they were aware of the Gulag that was set of for “prisoners of conscience would have turned over in their graves. If anything their socialist thought from which communism came to be last century was not intended as a model for imprisonment so that individuals who want to speak out for their independent rights must be imprisoned and punished. It came to be interpreted as an oligarchic form of government that kept the people on the lowest rung of the social scale in that position. Consequently it allowed for little movement up the social scale.

It is important to understand on what basis communism was created so that researchers can work around it and devise a system that is going to be fair for the general public. After all we work on percentages where there is a growing sense of discontent among the educated class that they cannot reach their goals because they have been arbitrarily eliminated from any competition or because their degrees suddenly become useless as younger people are giving the opportunity enter into the job market without sufficient experience. Additional friction is being caused by language obligations imposed by the province on new immigrants who are only contributing to the welfare of the whole province. The province has set out language police to monitor immigrant-operated businesses and this smacks of something out the ex-Soviet Union.

I do not know what went on in the Soviet Union as far as respecting a person”s educational level but on this side of the Atlantic, I think our government is soviet like that in the way foreign policy is explained to foreigners. One shouldn’t forget that the Soviets used their Brezhnev doctrine to go into Afghanistan by force and we are doing the same with a cover up story of bringing peace and prosperity to the country. We are only fueling the corrupt practices of maintaining cocaine poppy fields and keeping the local farmers from growing what they want to!

We also have to deal with such an unanswerable government that sends soldiers to Afghanistan just as the average non-violent Russian had to, when an unpopular war started in 1979 as the Soviets invaded their poorer neighbour. In a capitalist democracy where the average citizen pays taxes to maintain the deployment of soldiers in an open ended war, I should be able to have a few questions answered and none of the psychobabble that the mainstream media controlled by the government feeds us.