"[Only] the Truth shall set you free." --Prophet Isa (AS), John 8:32

This is from Carol Nikolaisen: 

Some simple definitions:

Capitalism; The use of inherited/stolen Capital to accumulate private wealth.
Venture Capitalism; The risk of Other People's money to accumulate private wealth
Consume; to consume, as a flame, to eat, To Utterly Destroy.

There is a lie being told by the world's "economists", this the lie that we are all capitalists in a capitalist economy. The truth is that although the mass of the worlds population lives alongside the capitalist economy they do not actively benefit from capitalism except in a subsistence, working poor, wage slave kind of manner. These people have no Capital and no access to Venture Capital. The bulk of the world's population does not profit from any form of Capitalist enterprise. As well these people are unable to be consumers except at the very subsistence levels of existence. They buy little to no commodities, chose daily between meals and housing. Work for desperation wages while producing all the capitalist commodities, but being denied any of the benefits of said production.

Even though few truly benefit from capitalism, and rampant unregulated consumerism seems "hell bent for leather" to destroy the world's ecologic balance, most people, believing they are capitalists, will die defending the virtues of this lie based, slavery based, theft based system.

Capitalism developed from the death of the "aristocratic" system, which developed from the feudal system, etc., Capitalism developed from the primitive accumulation of wealth, which is a pretty way of saying the Colonial acquisition of land and workers by the forced occupation of said land. This said Colonialism generally led to either complete oppression of indigenous people, or the intentional genocide of said people. Wealth accumulated by force and fascism.
The saddest part of this issue is that even in light of all the talk of civil or human rights the actuality is that there are only rights for the wealthy, if you have not enough money to pay legal fees and court costs you have no right to legal protection. The rights in reality are for those who can afford to pay for the lobby.

As well the thefts of the "primitive accumulation of wealth" continue to this day "legally sanctioned" as long as the "project" is profitable to the ones paying the lobby groups. People living on the very brink of existence are further impoverished daily by those who have far more wealth then they could possibly ever need or use in a billion+ lifetimes.

Be revolutionary, plant a vegetable garden, share and trade, use a Credit Union, don't feed the Capitalist economy any more then absolutely necessary. Speak up while citizens are still allowed a voice, the citizen will be silenced soon enough.

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Happy Birthday, Malcolm (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)

“I read once, passingly, about a man named Shakespeare. I only read about him passingly, but I remember one thing he wrote that kind of moved me. He put it in the mouth of Hamlet, I think, it was, who said, ‘To be or not to be.’ He was in doubt about something -- whether it was nobler in the mind of man to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune -- moderation -- or to take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. And I go for that. If you take up arms, you’ll end it, but if you sit around and wait for the one who’s in power to make up his mind that he should end it, you’ll be waiting a long time.

"And in my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is, you’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there’s got to be a change. People in power have misused it, and now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built, and the only way it’s going to be built is with extreme methods. And I, for one, will join in with anyone — I don’t care what color you are — as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.”

—El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, speaking at Oxford University on December 3, 1964, eighty days before his death.

From ecologist Ernest Callenbach: Last Words to an America in Decline:

 Much of the American ideology, our shared and usually unspoken assumptions, is hyper-individualistic.  We like to imagine that heroes are solitary, have super powers, and glory in violence, and that if our work lives and business lives seem tamer, underneath they

are still struggles red in blood and claw. We have sought solitude on the prairies, as cowboys on the range, in our dependence on media (rather than real people), and even in our cars, armored cabins of solitude. We have an uneasy and doubting attitude about government, as if we all reserve the right to be outlaws. But of course human society, like ecological webs, is a complex dance of mutual support and restraint, and if we are lucky it operates by laws openly arrived at and approved by the populace.

If the teetering structure of corporate domination, with its monetary control of Congress and our other institutions, should collapse of its own greed, and the government be unable to rescue it, we will have to reorganize a government that suits the people. We will have to know how to organize groups, how to compromise with other groups, how to argue in public for our positions. It turns out that "brainstorming," a totally noncritical process in which people just throw out ideas wildly, doesn't produce workable ideas. In particular, it doesn't work as well as groups in which ideas are proposed, critiqued, improved, debated. But like any group process, this must be protected from domination by powerful people and also over-talkative people. When the group recognizes its group power, it can limit these distortions. Thinking together is enormously creative; it has huge survival value.