The
capitalist system is in crisis, it sounds all so rational and
academic, but what it means is that across Europe people are
suffering in ever increasing numbers, and to an ever degrading
degree. Country after country comes under the spotlight of the media
and all the talk is about the “debt” crisis, never the human
side. In Greece, a country with an unelected Prime Minister,
unemployment has risen from 6.6% in 2008, to 16.6% in 2011, while
youth unemployment went from 18.6% to 40.1%, and heroin addiction
rose by 20% during the same period. Add to this human disaster the
fact that the government during the same period has cut the health
budget by 40% and reduced the street-work programs by 33%. Put that
toxic cocktail together and you have human suffering and deprivation
approaching third world proportions. Spain fares little better, with
unemployment at 20%, and 10% of families with no wage earner, plus,
during 2011, 1 in 8 business closed. Italy another country with an
unelected Prime Minister, is about to embark on a series of vicious
slashes to public spending, which will heap more people on to the
already mountainous mound of misery that exists in Europe. Here in
the UK we have now passed 2.6 million unemployed, 8.3% and rising.
Our youth unemployment is now over 1 million and rising, add to this
our wage freeze/cuts and an inflation rate of 5% and you can see the
misery indicator shooting up. Meanwhile our Millionaire cabinet
cabal, keep blaming the Euro-Zone for all our ills. The fact that
growth in Europe is above that in the UK, and inflation is lower than
the UK, doesn't seem to register with them, it is all Europe's fault.
CRISIS? What crisis?
The simple fact is that capitalism is crisis, it can't work for the
benefit of the ordinary people, it is basically a system that feeds
the rich at the expense of the poor. Profit is the aim, not human
welfare, and as such, that profit must be protected at all costs. The
human misery resulting from this type of value structure is never
taken into account on the balance sheets of the corporate world.
Throughout the entire period of history where capitalism has been the
main system we have had continuous wars, raging poverty, mass
unemployment and the resulting misery such circumstances produce. Of
course the numbers who gain a reasonable life varies from time to
time, but it is a temporary respite, soon along comes another
recession, or crisis and the numbers change again, with poverty and
misery growing, wiping out any benefits that some of the ordinary
people had fought for and temperaly gained.
If
we want to fix the “crisis” so that all the people will benefit,
then we have to demolish the present system and change our value
structure to one of profit free thinking. The only answer is to
create a society of mutual aid and co-operation based on
sustainability. The present “crisis” of the system can only be
remedied by eliminating capitalism and building a needs based system.
Only then will be see an end to the misery of deprivation, only then
will our youth be able to flower to their full potential.
