Questioning Communism and Capitalism

I am not a communist. Nor am I the kind of capitalist who would agree with the protestant pioneers that God gave them the right to expand and prosper through the new United States (I forget the term for this.). While the Communists have been shown to have failed for the petty tyrants they became, the capitalists' creed has also to be questioned.

Moderation in all. Corporate and country extreme greed just doesn't add up and is highly destructive now.

The other point in my mini-manifesto which I myself find difficult to promote is #2, re de-industrialization. This needs more work but I believe science can get us there and we can see a real dip in world pollution just in the nick. –Harry

Harry,

You should try and pick up a copy of the June 27 edition of Time magazine - the one with the picture of Mao on the front cover. It contains a good article about China today. On page 36 it tells you something about the pollution, something I mentioned to you in a previous Email i.e. the enormous pollution created by communist countries.

This has been known for decades by the Green Party and by Greenpeace, but what have they done? Zero. Those two groups are not "environmentalists", but haters of capitalism. Look at the last paragraph on page 36. It is intended to build a road through the virgin Amazon forest to grow and haul soybeans etc to China. Greenpeace and the Green Party do miniscule work to save the rain forests there, but hammer BC and Canada for our forestry practises, which are far superior.

Another very serious problem that the enviros and "Peace Activists" refuse to deal with is Darfur, where about 200,000 people have been murdered in southern Sudan (this story is not in the Time article - you have to dig for it). China now extracts 7% of its oil imports from there. China is the largest foreign investor in Sudan. The China National Petroleum Corp (CNCP) has invested about $15 billion. They have recently completed a 900 km pipeline to the Red Sea, and built a $700 million refinery just outside Khartoum. China is the largest arms supplier to Sudan, including planes and tanks. In order to stop the killings in Darfur the UN proposed a motion to apply sanctions to Sudan. China vetoed it. Some of the oil concessions are on lands the peoplefur occupied. Too bad. The "Peace Movement" has said and done nothing.
-Best wishes, Roger


Roger,

As to China, as long as its current anti-human rights regime is in place and it stubbornly refuses democracy (while now capitalizing with a severe, chilly greediness), that country will never gain the support of conscientious people anywhere.

Problem being: there's not enough of us to derail this train. I didn't know Darfur was in their expansionary crosshairs. Greenpeace (and the green movement) has lost a lot of its original juice and seem to have found their comfy zone attacking seal fur hunters, whalers, megacorps etc but leaving the dirty work of dealing with the human tragedies to unqualified rock stars and self-appointed saviour celebrities like Brad Pitt.