05-02-2013, 03:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-02-2013, 04:23 PM by FireIceTalon.)
U.S. foreign policy has been this way since the Spanish-American War, with a small lapse following the first international bourgeois war (WWI) when the US became isolationist for a time since American capital was sitting pretty as a result. But of course the fact it was temporary was preordained, since the accumulation of capital will inevitably need to spread to counter the contradictions seen in monopoly-competition and the falling rate of profits. And when this happens, you get war.
Our foreign policy isn't about expanding democracy - it never was, nor could it be since 'free markets' and democracy cannot co-exist. Democracy is merely a slogan (one of many) used to justify US Imperialism and the expansion of private capital and markets beyond US borders, and to help make politicians and special interest groups richer at the cost of many working class sons and daughters lives (here and abroad) being expendable. Now the little guys are starting to stand up to the guy with the big stick, and we don't like it. And while I do not like the political regimes of places like N. Korea, Syria or Iran anymore than I do the US, there are no such things as 'great nations' or 'inferior nations' - false dichotomy. There are only powerful nations and nations exploited by said powerful nations. The whole concept of 'American exceptionalism' and the idea that we are somehow superior to the rest of the world is a load of shit, spawned from the whole Christian philosophical concept of 'Manifest Destiny'. Frankly, I find the whole thing repulsive.
You guys really expected change by voting in another bourgeois politician? As if they have the power (or even desire) to create change? Yea, maybe the CHUMP CHANGE you have in your pocket, and thats about it. Even that is probably giving them too much credit. Any thought that one person, whatever they may be, can even begin to change things (be it for better or worse) is nothing more than 'great man' theories nonsense.
Our foreign policy isn't about expanding democracy - it never was, nor could it be since 'free markets' and democracy cannot co-exist. Democracy is merely a slogan (one of many) used to justify US Imperialism and the expansion of private capital and markets beyond US borders, and to help make politicians and special interest groups richer at the cost of many working class sons and daughters lives (here and abroad) being expendable. Now the little guys are starting to stand up to the guy with the big stick, and we don't like it. And while I do not like the political regimes of places like N. Korea, Syria or Iran anymore than I do the US, there are no such things as 'great nations' or 'inferior nations' - false dichotomy. There are only powerful nations and nations exploited by said powerful nations. The whole concept of 'American exceptionalism' and the idea that we are somehow superior to the rest of the world is a load of shit, spawned from the whole Christian philosophical concept of 'Manifest Destiny'. Frankly, I find the whole thing repulsive.
You guys really expected change by voting in another bourgeois politician? As if they have the power (or even desire) to create change? Yea, maybe the CHUMP CHANGE you have in your pocket, and thats about it. Even that is probably giving them too much credit. Any thought that one person, whatever they may be, can even begin to change things (be it for better or worse) is nothing more than 'great man' theories nonsense.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)