The more things change...etc. (non-election related)

[Coventina]

Get a load of this anti-war statement by a German protesting the start of WWI:

"The present war was not willed by any of the nations participating in it and it is not waged in the interest of the Germans or any other people. It is an imperialist war, a war for capitalist control of the world market, for the political domination of huge territories and to give scope to industrial and banking capital".

Yikes! Sound familiar?

Almost 100 years later, and we do EXACTLY THE SAME THING! We humans are a stupid, stupid species.

[Greyhound]

1. We (they) never stopped. I read a fascinating paper a few years ago that posited

WWI never ended, that the Great Depression, WWII, corporate sponsored destabilization, Korea, Vietnam, etc., all spring from that event in the ongoing class war that has gripped the globe since the 19th century.
:kick:

[Coventina]

2. That does sound really fascinating, and believable.

Well, it's a no-brainer that WWII happened because of WWI, but I hadn't heard the theory about the Depression, etc.

But the more I think about it, the more it does seem to all tie together. It's funny how compartmentalizing history into segments (Depression, Vietnam War, etc.) can keep you from seeing a bigger picture.

[Greyhound]

3. I wish it were on-line so I could point you toward it. Basically he was saying (IIRC),

that it was all started as a backlash against the worker's rights and communist movements spawned by the abuses of industrialization.

From taking control of national monetary systems (establishing the Fed here) to starting wars, the Great Depression caused either purposely or letting it get out of control, the failed Business Plot, the demonization of any form of socialization including unions, and far too many more events instigated or controlled by a very small group of players, is the result of an ongoing campaign of nothing less than global domination by this group.

It is interesting that the major participants are related through the generations and appear again and again to make, sometimes small but critical, contributions at the right times. He denies it is a single vast conspiracy, but rather a collection of small conspiracies that share an agenda. Howard Zinn touches on this in some of his works.

What few of us realize is just how different the world they live in is from ours, and therefore, how inconsequential we are in it. On the bright side, every time we have come together to fight them we have won, at least in the short term.