Recently, President
Bush said Capitalism without a conscience will fail. He was referring to the Enron and World Coms of the world while ignoring
the "commoditising " of the American worker who has been put on a world trading block to compete with the wage slaves of the
world as just another commodity instead of a human being with human dignity. There are many others in denial as a race to
the bottom is being boosted by so call "Free Trade" which in reality is not real trade but the moving of production from place
to place based on the cheapest labor markets. The common expression "It is nothing personal, It's just business"
takes control.
1. Labor is not a
tool of Capitalism. It is just the opposite. Capitalism is supposed to be the tool of the workers to better themselves and
have something extra to add to the common good. With Globalism now, it does not matter if you are a Communist, Socialist
or Capitalist because with the new world economy , elite groupings, vast transnational corporations, world banks and international
bureaucies like the WTO control events outside the democratic process and individual governments. A CEO of
a top transnational corporation says that we must get rid of our old fashion concept of sovereignty.
2. Our economic choices
should be judged on how they succeed in protecting human dignity in the workplace.
3. Any standard used
to judge human dignity this way should be based on the most vulnerable among us. If slave labor and destitute workers
are the "low water mark" and used as a common denominator economically, it certainly is not Capitalism with a conscience.
4. All workers should
have the right to secure productive work with just wages, benefits, and decent working conditions. All have the right to make
enough money to support their family and have something left over to support the common good too.
5. When and if workers
are displaced, institutions should be in place to make sure the displaced regain their place in the work world.
6. Businesses should
be free to do their thing but not at the expense of a working poor class. We now have created a working poor class in the
USA and a wage slave class outside of the USA.
7. The President
of the USA now acts as the top CEO of a world trade based really on a new slave trade - a wage slave trade. The USA with
so many of their factories now outside the USA has become an economic imperialistic colonial nation. With this situation,
globalism breeds wars in the need to protect national interests in mixed geopolitical environments.
