It is class inequality that creates drug addicts and homeless people, and the rich create and defend class inequality. But gee whiz, what could the solution possibly be?
hidden away in factories and offices and mines and farms where they work to make the rich richer, or
essentially invisible as janitors and cleaners of ritzy hotels and office buildings, or
camouflaged in military uniforms obeying orders to kill anybody who threatens the power of the rich anywhere, or
standing unobtrusively somewhere out of sight at Home Depot parking lots begging for a few hours of work to survive another day, or
waiting patiently at a welfare office to beg for some money to live on and explaining to the authority there that they are indeed working to make the rich richer, or at least trying to do so, as required by the laws made of, by and for the rich, or
personally serving the rich as invisibly as possible as domestic servants or butlers or chauffeurs or body guards.
But the poor are not allowed to “inflict” their presence on the eyeballs of the rich who are trying to enjoy the otherwise beautiful places in our major cities. Oh no!
Accumulation by the few is predicated on dispossession of the many. In any social system of class rule, wealth produces poverty, period.
Capitalism began with the state's rule of law covering for organized crime against humanity, from European enclosures of the public commons for private property to conquest and colonization of 'the new world' for imperial expansion. "The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief moments of primitive accumulation." (Karl Marx)
Dispossess people of the means of existence, farmers of land and artisans of autonomous "tools for conviviality" (Ivan Illich), to install plutocracy, with all necessary means of institutionalized violence to maintain modern pyramid schemes of progress in wage slavery (along with bigger-than-ever chattel slavery, aka human trafficking). Our 'betters' get away with robbery and murder, laughing all the way to the bank.
While the rich get richer, the poor get criminalized for falling victims to the crime. “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” There's only crime in the streets, not in the suites. (See The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice by Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton for a classic critique.)
Earliest refugees from capitalist class war constituted the urban proletariat who were 'free' to be exploited like any other piece of property, what the free market is all about. If you weren't busy 'earning your living' at the treadmills of work, you were liable to be arrested on charges of vagrancy and end up slaving away in the poor house, just part of the big house (there's always money to be made - a sure thing - in running a prison industrial complex, even in its rudimentary establishment). You have to pay for the 'cost of living', your right to exist, or else.
Top-down revolutions of industrial capitalism from those who own the means of production have been ways to continually colonize the world under tighter technological control. Commodification of labor has progressively reduced humans to mere utility, equipment in machinery of production. (As satirized in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times; for not-so-comical effect, see Scott Noble's Human Resources: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/human-resources/. See also Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century.)
Precarious existence under seemingly remote processes of social engineering and anonymous bureaucracy rises with accelerating rates of servitude in building our own prisons in the carceral institutions under ruling class control. This has included the expansion of police state powers beyond earlier enclosures to contemporary wars on crime which follow Randolph Bourne's motto: War is the health of the state. War on crime provides the (in)security state with opportunity to expand its power by creating crisis on the home front to complement solutions in search of problems for the imperial state abroad.
Ever since the political repression of the 60s with war on crime and drugs by the Nixon administration (see Christian Parenti's Lockdown America: Police and Prison in the Age of Crisis), police have been increasingly federalized and militarized by the Pentagon to mark a steady march of fascism (see John Whitehead's Battlefield America: The War on the American People). That's now being taken to the next level by techno-totalitarian agenda of the digital (c)age, launched with historically unprecedented planetary lockdown by medical martial law in the p(l)andemic of covid-19(84) (see Michel Chossudovsky'sThe Worldwide Corona Crisis: Global Coup d'État Against Humanity/https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-worldwide-corona-crisis-global-coup-detat-against-humanity-michel-chossudovsky/5850209).
Manufactured crisis on steroids (polycrisis) has been made the model for rule by dictatorial emergency decree to implement permanent lockdown of the population under biodigital security, aiming eventually to colonize us and all life in an internet of things (5G) and bodies (6G), control grids weaponized for next generation warfare from internalized nanotech to full spectrum dominance from space. Operation Warp Speed, begun in Trump's first term and continuing under Biden to 'vaccinate' most of the population, is now succeeded in his second term's whirlwind number of executive orders to integrate people as infrastructure within AI algogracy as shock doctrine disaster capitalism continues to "make the economy scream" (Nixon).
People made homeless by unaffordable housing and hyperinflated costs of living, people made migrants by transnational capitalism crossing borders and invading lands with free trade policies for accumulation through dispossession, people made mentally ill by systemic abuse and trauma of crushing inequality, people made drug addicts to numb themselves to extreme human alienation of dog-eat-dog, survival-of-the-fittest socio-economic conditions...are among the targeted vulnearble populations to be rounded up for some of the first of final solutions coming for us all. Exploiting coordinated legislation to set up a nationwide dragnet from borders to the beltway and blatantly overriding Posse Comitatus, military deployments to DC and other strategic sites across the country for rapid response to civil unrest underscore a scenario for storm troopers to serve accelerated mission creep for martial law.
The Police State Has a New Playbook: Martial Law, One City at a Time
The agenda here is our own version of what ruling classes across the world are variously imposing on their own national populations, including Russia and China leading the BRICS+ multipolar duplicity, for uniform global governance by technocracy. (See Edward Slavsquat/Riley Waggaman for critique of Russian and BRICS+ complicity in the construction of a prison planet.)
Similar narrative.... On my Nextdoor app there were over a hundred responses ( basically only divided into two sides: " democrats" and " republicans" ).. arguing over the huge housing buildings ( ostensibly for lower income etc ) about to be built in nice neighborhoods ( like Brentwood )... Most people ( in Brentwood ) were enraged... ruining their nice neighborhood.. But the arugment fell only -- into "dems" or "Trumps" schools. Do you have a short piece i maybe can post on this thread.. to ... um.... offer a different path of thinking?....
Exactly this -
"The rich want the poor to be out of their sight:
hidden away in factories and offices and mines and farms where they work to make the rich richer, or
essentially invisible as janitors and cleaners of ritzy hotels and office buildings, or
camouflaged in military uniforms obeying orders to kill anybody who threatens the power of the rich anywhere, or
standing unobtrusively somewhere out of sight at Home Depot parking lots begging for a few hours of work to survive another day, or
waiting patiently at a welfare office to beg for some money to live on and explaining to the authority there that they are indeed working to make the rich richer, or at least trying to do so, as required by the laws made of, by and for the rich, or
personally serving the rich as invisibly as possible as domestic servants or butlers or chauffeurs or body guards.
But the poor are not allowed to “inflict” their presence on the eyeballs of the rich who are trying to enjoy the otherwise beautiful places in our major cities. Oh no!
💯 agree. The cruelty of displacing homeless people while ignoring systemic inequality reveals the rot of elite rule.
Accumulation by the few is predicated on dispossession of the many. In any social system of class rule, wealth produces poverty, period.
Capitalism began with the state's rule of law covering for organized crime against humanity, from European enclosures of the public commons for private property to conquest and colonization of 'the new world' for imperial expansion. "The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief moments of primitive accumulation." (Karl Marx)
Dispossess people of the means of existence, farmers of land and artisans of autonomous "tools for conviviality" (Ivan Illich), to install plutocracy, with all necessary means of institutionalized violence to maintain modern pyramid schemes of progress in wage slavery (along with bigger-than-ever chattel slavery, aka human trafficking). Our 'betters' get away with robbery and murder, laughing all the way to the bank.
While the rich get richer, the poor get criminalized for falling victims to the crime. “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” There's only crime in the streets, not in the suites. (See The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice by Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton for a classic critique.)
Earliest refugees from capitalist class war constituted the urban proletariat who were 'free' to be exploited like any other piece of property, what the free market is all about. If you weren't busy 'earning your living' at the treadmills of work, you were liable to be arrested on charges of vagrancy and end up slaving away in the poor house, just part of the big house (there's always money to be made - a sure thing - in running a prison industrial complex, even in its rudimentary establishment). You have to pay for the 'cost of living', your right to exist, or else.
Top-down revolutions of industrial capitalism from those who own the means of production have been ways to continually colonize the world under tighter technological control. Commodification of labor has progressively reduced humans to mere utility, equipment in machinery of production. (As satirized in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times; for not-so-comical effect, see Scott Noble's Human Resources: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/human-resources/. See also Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century.)
Precarious existence under seemingly remote processes of social engineering and anonymous bureaucracy rises with accelerating rates of servitude in building our own prisons in the carceral institutions under ruling class control. This has included the expansion of police state powers beyond earlier enclosures to contemporary wars on crime which follow Randolph Bourne's motto: War is the health of the state. War on crime provides the (in)security state with opportunity to expand its power by creating crisis on the home front to complement solutions in search of problems for the imperial state abroad.
Ever since the political repression of the 60s with war on crime and drugs by the Nixon administration (see Christian Parenti's Lockdown America: Police and Prison in the Age of Crisis), police have been increasingly federalized and militarized by the Pentagon to mark a steady march of fascism (see John Whitehead's Battlefield America: The War on the American People). That's now being taken to the next level by techno-totalitarian agenda of the digital (c)age, launched with historically unprecedented planetary lockdown by medical martial law in the p(l)andemic of covid-19(84) (see Michel Chossudovsky'sThe Worldwide Corona Crisis: Global Coup d'État Against Humanity/https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-worldwide-corona-crisis-global-coup-detat-against-humanity-michel-chossudovsky/5850209).
Manufactured crisis on steroids (polycrisis) has been made the model for rule by dictatorial emergency decree to implement permanent lockdown of the population under biodigital security, aiming eventually to colonize us and all life in an internet of things (5G) and bodies (6G), control grids weaponized for next generation warfare from internalized nanotech to full spectrum dominance from space. Operation Warp Speed, begun in Trump's first term and continuing under Biden to 'vaccinate' most of the population, is now succeeded in his second term's whirlwind number of executive orders to integrate people as infrastructure within AI algogracy as shock doctrine disaster capitalism continues to "make the economy scream" (Nixon).
People made homeless by unaffordable housing and hyperinflated costs of living, people made migrants by transnational capitalism crossing borders and invading lands with free trade policies for accumulation through dispossession, people made mentally ill by systemic abuse and trauma of crushing inequality, people made drug addicts to numb themselves to extreme human alienation of dog-eat-dog, survival-of-the-fittest socio-economic conditions...are among the targeted vulnearble populations to be rounded up for some of the first of final solutions coming for us all. Exploiting coordinated legislation to set up a nationwide dragnet from borders to the beltway and blatantly overriding Posse Comitatus, military deployments to DC and other strategic sites across the country for rapid response to civil unrest underscore a scenario for storm troopers to serve accelerated mission creep for martial law.
The Police State Has a New Playbook: Martial Law, One City at a Time
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_police_state_has_a_new_playbook_martial_law_one_city_at_a_time
The agenda here is our own version of what ruling classes across the world are variously imposing on their own national populations, including Russia and China leading the BRICS+ multipolar duplicity, for uniform global governance by technocracy. (See Edward Slavsquat/Riley Waggaman for critique of Russian and BRICS+ complicity in the construction of a prison planet.)
Similar narrative.... On my Nextdoor app there were over a hundred responses ( basically only divided into two sides: " democrats" and " republicans" ).. arguing over the huge housing buildings ( ostensibly for lower income etc ) about to be built in nice neighborhoods ( like Brentwood )... Most people ( in Brentwood ) were enraged... ruining their nice neighborhood.. But the arugment fell only -- into "dems" or "Trumps" schools. Do you have a short piece i maybe can post on this thread.. to ... um.... offer a different path of thinking?....
I will see what I can come up with.