The New World Order: Crony Capitalism

Germany, England, France, and the United States setting aside their ideological, cultural, and political differences and unifying on a common policy? Is this some sort of Hollywood-depicted utopia or opium-induced delusion? Unfortunately, no. If you don't believe me, check it out for yourself: (BBC) or (CNN).

This hardly fictional, hardly utopian, global financial bailout was nothing more than a trans-Atlantic debutante's ball for the One who wields true political power—Capitalism.

Capitalism is the underlying foundation for these societies; the functioning of every social institution—from government, to church, to business—is founded upon a necessity of capital. A functional government, church, business, or any other social institution requires capital to fund its initiatives, programs, and policies. Capital thus precedes policy—and indeed trumps it when they collide in conflict, as we have seen from this unprecedented European/American cooperation.

Capitalism is thus the true, singular power in our contemporary, global society; like society, capitalism is fluid and ever-changing, as we have seen from recent economic events. When the highly-evolved capitalist golem--the corporation--begin to implode under the strain of its fundamental flaw—greed—its fight-or-flight mechanism kicked in and it fled to the shelter of mutually dependent social institution—government. Capitalism needed government to save it from itself, and these governments were wholly dependent upon capital. To avoid mutual annihilation, these entities co-evolved in a new ‘organism,’ state-sponsored capitalism, or more precisely, corporate socialism.

The free-market and laissez-fair have died. Like an abominable phoenix, corporate socialism arose from the ruins on Wall Street.

Revolutionarily yours,
Thommunist