REVOLUTION OF THE COMMONS – in the current global economic paradigm, the best leaders, the best ideas are assassinated; the worst are vaunted

THERE is the popular idea that the key to economic prosperity lies in the nations of Europe, China, India, Japan, Brazil, the United States. This is a big-selling idea. But it is false. It is like telling you that our future lies in a paraplegic home. The fact is that these nations are on death’s door, sedated by the pharmacy, the television and the head matron.

Economic prosperity lies where this idea has not yet been fully fashioned or accepted. The key to future economic prosperity lies in Africa, South East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Caribbean.

The nations of Western Europe, China, India, the United States, Russia, Japan and Brazil are all exerting a strong tendency towards global war. The political, corporate, financial and military elites of these nations are involved in covert internecine warfare which is going to lead to full scale global war.

The elites of these nations rely predominantly on one survival strategy. That is, the chasing of global markets. The markets for finance, oil, minerals, weapons, machines, food, housing, cars, clothes; and media, electronic, information goods. These markets will not rest until the last man in Madagascar has been sold a mortgage, a cell, a Nike Air Jordan Future.

This chase for global markets by the world’s largest economies is unsustainable. There are too many corporate elites, supported by their governments, chasing too few markets. The loser or imminent losers in this chase, the ones loaded with the most military hardware, will seek to smash up the game.

They will resort to war. The default position of failed trading elites is war; that which cannot be won by trade will be won by war. It is like a game of marbles. If the man with the muscles is losing, and the stakes involve a matter of life and death, he will use his muscles. He will smash the game, take the marbles. When the war is finished, and he has regained his dominance, he will cry peace, and begin to play again.

This cycle of endgame economics leading to war has one serious defect. It will be ruinous to organic life on the planet; that is the human masses, ecological life, and the planet itself. This is our common future. When war breaks out, the masses everywhere, not the elites, pay the most. There is massive ruin, fragmentation, blood and suffering. The answer is for masses everywhere to revolt. A revolt of the commoners, the commons.

It is very difficult to successfully revolt in these ‘advanced’ nations. This is because these nations are ruled by either one-party or two-part dictatorships. For example, China is a one-party dictatorship. The U.S. is a two-party dictatorship, ruled by a common Senate. The U.S. Senate constitutes a two-party alliance of shared hegemonic goals.

It is backed by corporate elites and by militaries too powerful, just like their big banks, to fail. That is why Tiananmen Square in China and the Occupy Movement in the U.S. fared so badly. The masses in these nations are pitted against entrenched standing armies. Say boo, and the soldiers are on the street!

It is easier to alter the political and economic status quo in Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. That is why these nations hold the key to economic prosperity on the planet, and the sustenance of organic mass: that is human life, ecological life, and the planet itself. What is the formula for economic prosperity? The formula is revolt. Revolt by the commons. How does one make this revolt?

First; the idea. We require an altered planetary economics. We require a deep intuitive quest. Of an Einsteinian nature and proportion. Such quests are based on empirical knowledge and guided by the spirit or the belief. Belief is victory. Doubt, the way of the unbeliever, is death and chaos. How do we build large equitable planetary corporate cultures? How do we create shared spaces, commons? Macro-Economics must not just be about the elites, the nation state; it must be genuinely corporate: large, all-embracing, planetary, inter-galactic.
Second, the leadership. In the current global economic paradigm, the best leaders, the best ideas are assassinated. The worst are vaunted. The words of genocidal leaders, global pariahs, are caught like gold and stranded out into the world by BBC and CNN. The best principles of leadership have been developed in modern Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, South East Asia, India, the Middle East. In counter-imperialist campaigns.
Third, the corporation. The Global Village must replace Global Empire. The internet illustrates the distinction between Global Village and Global Empire. The internet is a tool for creating participatory corporate wealth: libraries, labs, treasuries of economic, political, financial, social wealth. It is a shared corporate domain, a commons, for creating non-profiteering wealth; for example, international currencies.
It is a self-recreating god of prosperity. However, it is also a tool for global surveillance, global war, global propaganda, global free-marketeering, and global economic hegemony by parastatal cohorts.
Finally, the accounting. All ideas, all leadership, all corporations must account. This is an elusive pursuit. Constitution, liberal democracy, parliament, law, auditing, econometrics, statutory regulation, and accounts itself, which have taken centuries to develop, through countless revolts by the commons, have become tools of Empire. Continuous social war must be continued by the commons against the Empire calling for this accounting.

WAYNE KUBLALSINGH

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