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Africa News on June 16, 2019
Sunday, June 16, 2019
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1.Insecurity in the Northern region of Nigeria calls for a concern as the army battle against the fighters who are destabilizing the Northern region .
2. WHO Director Arrives in Uganda.
3. Protest continues in Hong Kong
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Socialism/communism, Capitalism/liberalism/libertarianism, etc...
I don't know why people insist on labels and forming clusters building tight fences around their ideas so much so they have created ways in which political, social, and economic systems are restricted within these labels , when reality rarely ever operates in such perfect clusters and one dimensionality.
Take Marx's socialism for instance, it naively begins from the assumption that people will be satisfied if every thing was distributed equally. This goes against some principles of economics doesn't it? Taking from those who have capital and distributing it amongst the rest to create a "classless society". But Marx contradicts his own concepts based on the idea of dialectical materialism. If he believes the whole of reality is a process then why does he assume a classless society is the final out come of what he proposes?
Was there even strict class boundaries in traditional Ethiopia? Aside from the nobles and the subjects something that was not really based on a capital system? In Europe the people went from monarchism to industrial revolution to socialism in Ethiopia we skipped some steps. Why because we blindly apply every thing.
Marx says the more the worker produces the more enslaved he becomes as wages are set by the capitalists but the success of economies like America disproves this doesn't it as well as the stagnant economy and suffocation of communist countries? Or is their respective success and failure due to external circumstances?
Is America's capitalist/libertarianism/liberalism any better?
Liberty to think, to invent, to produce, to trade. When no restrictions are placed on these things the ingenuity of man knows no bound... Modern governments drain off so much of the energies of the people, especially the creative people, whom they perceive as threats to their power, that the energies of men are sapped and their spirits broken" - Hospers
I absolutely agree and know those who might relate to what Hospers said if they read it but he like wise naively assumes that such restrictions are only imposed by governments and that if governments didn't it would be the monopolies or plutocrats who impose these restrictions. These will set prices, withhold product, play on demand, buy out media, and buy out officials, manipulate thinking, and even social structures. America might have succeeded as it did since initially it did not have these monopolies. And economic success of other countries could be owed to America's or the west's direct interference and influence while crippling others that opposed it or saw as a threat.
This is why Marcuse said,
our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become needs of individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business..., and on the whole appears to be the embodiment of reason. And yet this society is irrational as a whole.
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