The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, around 70 years after it was founded, was celebrated in the West as a victory for capitalism over the socialist planned economy. However, by this time, economic growth in the West had long since passed its peak, too. Nor was it a victory for capitalism, but that of a third economic system, from whose impulses the West still benefits to this day, despite systematic oppression. However, these true developments have been erased from the consciousness of citizens by spreading various false narratives/myths with devastating consequences.
Myth 1: "Capitalism is synonymous with market economy".
Fact: A free and fair market economy is fundamentally non-political in that it does not require any state intervention other than ensuring legal certainty. In contrast, the real Western system embodies the ever-increasing undemocratic power of big money. Completely different from what is suggested to the citizens, this capitalism is not based on a fair market economy, but on its falsification. A closer look reveals that government rules, regulations and policies constitute selective obstacles to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. Due to economic effects of scale and electronic rationalization, large corporations can cope much more easily with the artificially over-bureaucratic environment. By also benefiting unilaterally from approximate tax exemptions, government contracts, rescue packages and favorable conditions in the private financial sector, they can buy up the small competitors who have been driven into trouble in droves.
Myth 2: "Capitalism stimulates creativity through its tough competition".
Fact: Capitalism undermines the principle of competition. And human creativity can develop less well in the state-privileged corporations with their stiff hierarchies than in the sector of small companies and self-employed which is disadvantaged by the system.
Myth 3: "The market economy creates recurring economic crises".Fact: It is not the fair, always balancing market economy, but rather unfair capitalism that generates crises. This is due to the largely speculative character of its investments and due to premises which do not lie in sustainability and responsibility (as in authentic entrepreneurship), but in short-term profit maximization and the derivation of political power. The system can be set up (with the help of lobby teams) by uncritical politicians to undermine the balancing effect of supply and demand (e.g. with hardly any taxed day trade, with cum-ex and in derivatives trading). One of the inevitable side effects of this hectic activity consists in speculative bubbles, which eventually burst, with solid small investors suffering the most from the panic effects. By using enormous amounts of money to manipulate the course of crises (e.g. by investing in hedge funds that specifically buy up ailing and therefore cheap government bonds in order to politically and legally enforce their unfair 100% payout later), the ultra-rich become even richer at the expense of almost everyone else.Myth 4: "Market economy inevitably leads to the emergence of oligopolies and monopolies".Fact 4.1 Unspoilt market economy offers small innovative startups steep opportunities for advancement. The competitive pressure they generate prevents established oligopolies from dominating the market. Cartel formation is made considerably difficult.Fact 4.2 In capitalism, on the other hand, state policy gives the few large corporations special advantages and thus a dominant position in the market. The oligopolies allow (also tacitly "agreed upon") price dictates on both sides - rock-bottom prices that are paid to (mostly small) producers and excessive usurious prices that are demanded from end customers.Fact 4.3 Real competition, especially in a fair, market-economy world trade, would quickly shrink this gaping price range. But a jumble of conditions, controls, exclusive licenses and customs regulations prevent smaller competitors from participating. In this environment, corruption also unavoidably thrives, further distorting the price structure in opposition to the market.Fact 4.4 Capitalism as a political system of cheating everyone in favor of a few ultra-rich could grow into a titanic, but very much underestimated power, because it understood all the facts presented here by controlling the media and tens of thousands of – mostly tax-exempt – organizations cover up and keep out of public awareness. - As a result, the phenomenon of globalization is exposed to a fatally wrong assessment. Because globalization does not represent a fundamental threat, but was and is only made so by its almost exclusive management in the hands of a few ultra-rich capitalists. This happens in particular when oligopolies divert exorbitant extra profits in international trade according to point 4.2.Myth 5: "Western nations owe their prosperity to capitalism".The previous points have shown that it is not capitalism, but the fair market economy that generates rapid technical progress and prosperity, while capitalism, as a falsification of the same, has only left remnants of a significantly higher potential, which on top of that are distributed more and more unequally (remuneration of top managers in the Compared to those of contract workers are in the ratio of about 1000 to 1).
Myth 6: "The wealth of western citizens is generated at the expense of people in poor countries".Fact 6.1 (Small) producers in poor countries are particularly affected by price dumping according to 4.2. However, the advantage of this definitive exploitation does not go to the western end customers (as the media suggest to distract them, cynically also with the fair trade initiative), but exclusively to the international logistics and trading groups appearing in the oligopoly. - The end customers themselves are cheated with extortionate prices as well as the producers with dumping prices. This sophisticated anti-concept has existed since colonial times.Fact 6.2 The origins of the unscrupulous large trading groups lie in particular in the British Empire with its Crown Colonies, in which these areas were officially assigned to certain royally privileged (stock) companies such as the notorious East India Company for plundering.Fact 6.3 This historic guilt of a small, ultra-rich minority is being covered up as much as possible in the media and in the education sector, and is being passed on to the civilization-leading nations in a gigantic scapegoat projection.Myth 7: "China is an autocratic, freedom-hostile country that threatens our prosperity through unfair trade".Fact 7.1 With the major reforms of 1979/1980 - initially only in so-called special economic zones - the market economy found its way into China, the share of which has now risen to over 60%. At the same time, also a reform of the planned economy took place, which continues to prevail in large-scale industry. In contrast to Gorbachev's failed (but rather deliberately sabotaged) "perestroika" - cost-based pricing has been introduced in the state-owned companies, which enables exact accounting and controlling. As a result, the Chinese planned economy is growing faster than the distorted market economy in the West, but the Chinese private economy is progressing even faster.Fact 7.2 Overall, the Chinese market economy functions more freely than in the West. Startups encounter significantly fewer obstacles in the form of excessive energy costs, state bureaucracy, regulations and tax burden.Fact 7.3 Similar to the USA in its founding decades, a largely unadulterated market economy has given enormous impetus to creativity (with world leadership in patents) and economic growth. But in stark contrast to the United States, and to its own advantage, China has been able to keep the distorting influence of capitalist circles severely limited.Fact 7.4 With this, China is not threatening the prosperity of the West, but showing it the way to find prosperity and a fair distribution of wealth again - by restoring a market economy freed from privileges and bureaucracy in accordance with the correction to Myth 5.Fact 7.5 China has parliaments on a total of 5 levels, from the Local People's Congress to the National People's Congress in Beijing. It is a democratic deficit that the deputies at one level are elected from among and by the deputies at the next lower level and not by the population. But parliamentarians in this system have to pass a filter that takes effect at the local level in the form of a grassroots democracy. There, candidates are nominated from the population and elected by the same. With this interesting system component, one can certainly come close to the core goal of democracy, to nominate trustworthy people who are committed to the benefit of the citizens and to keep opportunists away from a political career.
Myth 8: "The failure of capitalism, as predicted by Marx, due to its systemic contradictions, will not take place."Fact 8.1 The findings presented so far show that the falsification of market mechanisms prevents smaller companies from making big advances with innovative products. The resulting weakening of the economy was correctly foreseen by Karl Marx. But worse than in his forecast, this goes not to the detriment of the capitalists, but one-sidedly to that of the remaining fair market participants and the affected economies.Fact 8.2 Capitalism - correctly understood as the oligopolistic distortion of the market economy and the unofficial rule of big money - is currently at the height of its economic and political contradictions. – These exist, among other things, between the claimed democratic ideals and the real political regulatory state, as well as between the promised freedom and the obvious control of opinion-forming and the hindrance of entrepreneurial freedom.Fact 8.3 As a result, a yawning gap opens up, namely between a constant increase in productivity in the economy (e.g. through massive use of IT) since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 and an almost stagnant prosperity of the citizens.Fact 8.4 Correction 4.2 answers the question of how the gigantic difference came about. The gigantic, unfairly skimmed off extra profits disappear in a carousel that spins ever faster, in which firstly rows of small companies are bought up by corporations and secondly new NGOs are founded. The latter are given tax-exempt status and can then be flooded with money as needed. Their dependence on strong financial sources makes these charitable organizations with their snow-white self-perception, ideal tools for the politically active ultra-rich - among other things for very one-sided election propaganda in the USA, against Israel and for a development policy that puts people and countries in "sustainable" dependencies according to the below following assessment 7.Fact 8.5 As a result, capitalism does not fail because of decreasing profits, as Marx had assumed, but because of their gigantic growth, so gigantic that at some point (now!) this can no longer be concealed, even with the most elaborate cover-up - and mistrust arises. A number of conclusions and forecasts can be derived from the listed facts:
Assessment 1. It can be assumed that also the worldwide growing corruption and filling of black coffers (for instance, NSA´s) is served from capitalist extra profits. First, ever since the East India Company was privileged by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, the whole system has been rooted in an unscrupulous mindset that lacks solidarity and is programmed for unfair cheating (psychologically an extremely pronounced narcissism). Secondly, the extra profit accruing in this system is by far the largest surplus of money in the world, for which the possible uses are consequently being sought everywhere. This is also the background to the forced privatization of state property since the dissolution of the Soviet Union (and thus a system of comparison that had forced the capitalist ruling elite to exercise a certain restraint).
Assessment 2. The distrust of the citizens is growing despite of the constantly increased efforts to cover up these system contradictions according to Fact 8.5. - This criticism is the prerequisite for a peaceful overcoming of the rule of money and a complete restoration of democracy -then finally mentally resilient and based on fair market economy.
Assessment 3. This system reform, which has been postponed for far too long, is now essential for survival. If it does not succeed in a timely manner (as determined in early May 2023), the Ukraine war unfortunately offers the “perfect” framework for the chain of escalation into World War III, which, according to many findings, is desired by influential circles in the background of British and US American politics. Among other things, it would "solve" the capitalist problem of the meanwhile unmissable contradictions of it´s system according to facts 8.2 to 8.5 in the rough way.
Assessment 4. The citizens of Europe have learned very poorly from history. The 3rd World War would already be the 4th great European fratricidal war if the Crimean War of 1853-1856 is correctly included. In any case, it was a petty, nationalistic atmosphere in which the only future-proof pan-European solidarity that included Russia could never thrive sufficiently. The long-term consequence is now the acceptance of the irresponsible, suicidal undertaking of giving priority to the absolutely legitimate and important question of guilt in the Ukraine war, before the even more important solidarity, which assigns the European countries only a de-escalating and mediating role. (The claim of a defense of democracy in Ukraine which is the most corrupt state in Europe, discriminates the Russian language by laws, closed regime-critical TV channels and forbade opposition parties turns out to be a pretext used by militarists.)
Assessment 5. The self-inflicted result of a full escalation would most likely result in the end of the leading position of the European shaped, still quite liberal civilization.
Assessment 6. The elimination of China as a result of a provoked confrontation about Taiwan is also becoming apparent. It must therefore be regarded as a premise of capitalist money rule, because a largely fair market economy and thus prospering China is not compatible with the global goals of the money dynasties. – Pope Francis’ statement of June 2014 also fits into this context: “Capitalism needs war”.
Assessment 7. In the chaos of such a war, the "disruptive" democratic mechanisms of the USA could also be switched off by means of the emergency laws that were then activated (including the Patriot Act of 2001) and by the more than 13,000 executive orders of the presidents, some of which supplement them. Because in an artificial permanent state of emergency with militarization of the internal order, the authentic republican character of the country would be eroded.
Assessment 8. Entirely in the tradition of dictatorial systems and using the wave of globalization, the goals of the money empire are, according to a great deal of evidence, firstly in the establishment of an autocratic (formally UNO-led) world state under capitalist control and secondly in the transfer of individual people into dependency on big capital.
Assessment 9. Exactly this can already be observed as a result of capitalistically managed development policy in Africa, where a good 7 decades of state project and financial aid as well as supposed charity of thousands of money-heavy NGOs have resulted not in independent and sustainably operating liberal democracies, but in a collection of unstable, chronically needy and corrupt states.
Assessment 10. By taking up the perfidious myth 6 as their supposed lifeline, states and governments blame the civilized nations for their misery - while the salvation for them and everyone else lies solely in the non-violent and fair self-liberation of democracy from the illegitimate rule of big money and the restoration of a fair market economy without privileges.
May, 2023
Christian Hamann
https://frieden-freiheit-fairness.com
Details and explanations can be found on this website,
for instance, in blog article "124 Theses".