I got thinking
today of a rainy day notion, not political really, just kind of a lopsided
thinking, random thinking, spontaneous—
You
know what I mean: thinking today what may be tomorrow, and having plan ‘B’
ready, if indeed one has time for plan ‘B’!
Something
put away for the Rainy Day, and we all get them: groups, solo men, women,
families, nations, and the world!
Then
a word popped into my head: ‘Plutocracy’—
I
translated it to mean, “Means to power,” but of course it is not quite that, it
is more on the order of the rich controlling the poor, something on that order:
seldom is the word used, and that is because it is a lopsided word.
Then
Karl Marx came to mind, and capitalism.
I
translated his vision this way: when every country in the world has an
unconsumed surplus, capitalism will fall.
Karl
was no idiot, so I figured he knew what he was talking about.
So
capitalism will fall, I told myself, lest we find a way to rid ourselves of that
surplus, he talking about, and have we done so?
I
mean, I’ll never know, but if America falls as Karl says we will, I’ll assume
we didn’t do anything about it.
So
I come up with (and I
suppose I’m not the first to come up with this idea, surly a million or so
other people have—thus, no bright idea of mine :)
I
have the solution Karl, ‘Cast it into the sea!’
Thus,
in a flash, Marxism becomes primitive, out of date, fixed, the hurdle has been
jumped over…
Then
I got thinking—again surely no bright idea—do away with the profit, and there
won’t be any unconsumed surplus!
I
did it again, I think! Broke two ribs of Karl.
Perhaps
this is called socialism, not sure, but it seems to fit.
Now
I get into the world called Plutocracy, and I bet you think I’m going to use it
for America?
No
way, how about Russia?
It
may not fit, in this year of 2014, but why not push the piece into the puzzle
until it does…
Russia
can say what it please, but it owns 70% of everything, if not, at least for
this poem, let it be—
But
there is a greater power than wealth, that is people, labor, and the muscle of
industry—even at 30%, if not taken into account, it will overpower wealth, America has taken that into account, has
Russia?
And
to be quite frank, the rich own much of America, but we do have a huge middle
class…
That
30% pulls the triggers, the muscle cords of a nation!
It
is in essence, stronger than wealth!
Although
70 + 30, when shoulder to shoulder, in the case of humanity, it becomes a
different story.
Labor
cannot be dishonored, save, you are not going to run a slave camp;
And
if you do, ere, the lion and the tiger fight.
Germany,
should they return to the ways of the ‘70s (and
it is hard to backtrack, so I’d assume one must find a new plan ‘B’),--and I lived in Germany four years during the
1970s, winter after winter—
Russia
would not be able to play on their now impotency—
Germany
now, in a winter is an empty shell; Russia can put them in cold storage anytime,
because they are dependent on Russia as their energy source! As is half of Europe.
What
has happened here?
Russia
has become like Standard Oil Trust, they have squeezed out the old-times of the
once coal fields—
Made
connections, their hands are everywhere;
Germany
is a feudal tenure of Russia, even if America thinks not!
That
is what them plutocratic, not only in Russia but in Europe.
No:
4633/11-25-2014
