Techno-Financial Capital and Genocide of the Poorest of the Poor
by James Petras / May 1st, 2015
-- The war and its results have turned Yemen back a hundred years, due to the destruction of infrastructure
especially in the provinces of Oden, Dhalea, and Taiz.
Izzedine al-Asbali, Yemeni Human Rights Minister
Yemen is devastated. There are no roads, water, or electricity. Nobodys left but thieves.
a resident of Sanaa, Yemen
This essay will begin by mapping the genocidal wars against the wretched of the earth, identifying the geography of genocide, the countries and subjects under attack, and the trajectory, which has been chosen and executed by the leaders of the Euro-American regimes.
Then we will examine the reason for genocide within the dynamics and forms of contemporary capitalism. In particular, we will develop the genocide hypothesis: that imperial genocide of the poorest of the poor is a deliberate policy to reduce the growing surplus labor, which is no longer needed or wanted for wealth accumulation but is increasingly feared as a potential political threat.
In the last section, we will discuss how the wretched of the earth are responding to this policy of imperial genocide and what is to be done.
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Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/05/techno-financial-capital-and-genocide-of-the-poorest-of-the-poor/
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)It permits tax dollars to be shuttled to armaments industries, enricing the rich further. It keeps the victims in such countries in a constant state of fear and hopelessness, which is exactly where we want them. It eliminates potential competition from outside the club by the crudest possible means: blowing it off the face of the Earth. It keeps the areas in constant turmoil, with different factions continually at each others's throats, which means they don't have time or energy to fight us while we absorb their resources. Even the property damage done by bombing and war is of no real consequence, because it is the peons who are suffering, not the members of the club. It's really just an extreme example of what our rulers would like to do to us, but as yet lack the leverage (they're sure-enough working on it, though).
When you realize that, for all practical purposes, the overwhelming mass of people is of no consequence to the ruling class, then everything becomes much easier to understand.
-- Mal
polly7
(20,582 posts)I agree with every word of it, as sad and horrible as it all is.