Liberal ideas (economic injustice).
A serious problem for many companies is the difference in charges paid from one country to another. The most liberal governments allow their companies to pay minimal charges and let social achievements be dismantled, leaving employees and their families to fend for themselves. That’s the last straw! These companies benefit from a higher profit margin, which allows them to invade and eliminate companies that respect their workers! For a while, these foolish governments will roll over, giggling, thinking they have found a good trick to favour their big shareholders at the expense of the “masses”. They get back a few slave companies and a few jobs, but at what price? By going back to social prehistory, by exploiting the less privileged. Short memory, short ideas, strikes, revolts and violence… will be the result.
Liberalise ideas (trade union/management exchange).
SMEs in difficulty will be obliged to modify certain social achievements, they are often caught at the throat, and, in addition, are harassed by intransigent trade unions that put everyone in the same basket, dogma first. The new economic situation requires a different balance, more flexibility, going against this reality in a rigid way is impossible, because it would be the surest way to lay off employees, or even to bankrupt the company. Most small business owners fight like lions to save themselves, to save jobs; trade unions and social workers do the same. All of them, even if they have been “opponents” for a long time, have to pool their ideas and forces in order to keep the steak. But only a “fair” exchange will do.
If it’s not me, it’s the other guy (relocation).
We make huge profits…tax us more? You don’t think so! On the contrary, look at the others…they pay less tax than we do…help…we will lose our customers…we have to lower the taxes…otherwise we will be forced to leave etc... The big financial and industrial groups are blackmailing us and threatening to go and steal elsewhere, as other governments, it seems, will be less careful! They ask us to continue to favour the big shareholders, or else they will destroy the jobs! Now that’s democrats for you. Since governments are in their boots, we must not count on them. The only way to fight back is through trade unions, democratic parties and, above all, the people. We must prevent these groups from going wherever they want by creating supranational social movements, by boycotting their products (the US government is constantly trying to boycott, and if they don’t do so for their own sordid interests, it would be wrong of us, for the good cause, to do so) and by forbidding these companies and their subsidiaries to trade with us. If they want to go to other countries and if it is better there, then let them stay there. We have no use for these destructive restructurings, and we have enough courageous and responsible entrepreneurs and many young creators here who are ready to replace them advantageously.
Low salaries (lying big bosses).
The cowardice of big business is matched only by its stupidity in whining about competition from low wages in poor countries. Who are the big bosses, now whining, who have spoken out against these third world injustices? On the contrary, they worked like wolves to keep wages as low as possible.
Entrepreneurial boss (the human enterprise).
A great boss will really be a creative, courageous and enterprising person, the day he allows transparency, contradiction and discussion at all levels of his company.
The e… con… omists (blind economics).
Let’s listen to the speeches of the great economists, what do they say…that in order to fight against unemployment, we must create jobs! This other one who, in order to prove that unemployment is lower in the United States than in Europe, boasts of his formidable economic thinking which boils down to… creating small jobs! You’re not dreaming, the fruit of his many years of study… small jobs, precarious work, shoe-shine boy, newspaper seller, luxury dog walker… If this little genius had been in South America, Africa and many other places, he would have been very disappointed to see his theory… sitting on the pavements, in the slums, among the not too literate. If that’s intelligence, we’d better stay morons, and if we want to create small jobs, we’ll do it on our own. Economists, stop clinging to these theories of imbalance, but create with other researchers a more humane society.
The beautiful recovery (flourishing economy).
All Western politicians and economists, individuals stuffed with education; all doubts are allowed about their belonging to a so-called human and intelligent species; strut after each “local” improvement of the economic situation, called recovery. Crises leave millions of families in misery, but since in Western countries these millions represent only a small part of the population, it is enough to ignore them. They also ignore, from the height of their arrogance, that their recovery is built on the destruction of billions of families in the Third World. We are in the midst of a war, and our western democracy is rotten, there is no recovery, it is a stupid and horrible lie, the very foundation of “denialism”, and you have to be a beautiful liar to accept the liberal discourse.
The multiplication of jobs (jobs for life).
The idyllic and mechanistic liberal discourse informs us that we will have to change jobs several times in our lifetime! No more jobs for life! If we look at two-tiered societies, those of the third world, we see that the single job is finished. However, there is a nuance, because what we see is not workers changing jobs in the course of their lives, but in the same day. In the morning they go to look after the pigs, during the day they work as a teacher, in the evening they try to find another job. All this, to try to survive. As we are slowly evolving towards a two-tier society, we should be prepared to work 15 hours a day… for those who will find a job… evolution?
Eldorado (delocalisation).
Who will benefit from delocalisation? The workers of course! Everyone knows that offshoring is a boon for workers! For decades the discourse of the great presidents of the supranationals has always been the same. They tell us, hand on heart, that they will bring growth and prosperity! Their key phrase is: We offer higher wages.
What will higher wages bring to a less developed but often economically balanced region? The establishment of these large groups attracts people from all over the region, even from the whole country, farmers, workers, employees, executives, a strong concentration develops towards this Eldorado. The region under the “protection” of the multinationals suffers from price inflation which is passed on to neighbouring regions… the majority of the population who do not benefit from the higher salaries watch the products being pushed up and become impoverished, the big local traders participate in this disaster by creating artificial shortages which push the products even higher, under the benevolent and interested eye of the local authorities.
Some industries develop close to the multinationals, but many more are ruined because they cannot compete against these giants. Infrastructures are created with the money of Western countries, our famous aid which is only used to plunder the outside world, and the profits, the billions thus stolen, are evacuated to us. And what happens to those famous higher wages? They become, in front of so much cheap labour, miserable wages.
The best moment comes when these big companies decide to relocate for economic reasons… then wars and genocides happen. Previously, this fate was reserved for others, for third world countries, with our cowardly consent…of course, we had to support our families, but we mostly refused to see the reality, we behaved like selfish people, but now that we are suffering from relocations ourselves…are we going to continue to close our eyes? Once the third world is everywhere, who will buy? The robots? All that will be left for our intelligent shareholders is to eat their shares, their banknotes or their credit cards. Their greed is limitless… but digestion?
Courage when you let go (redundancies).
Some of the leaders of big companies and their top executives congratulate themselves on their great courage and superior abilities. That is how they see themselves in general! They courageously rely on foreign companies to lay off their staff. This shows that they are firstly deplorable managers, let’s say incapable, and secondly perfect cowards.
Same nature (nature of liberalism).
In high times, the system is far too regulated! Employees have too many privileges! In Western countries the exceptional growth of the last decades has indeed allowed the staff to demand more. This was of course not to the liking of the big bosses, as it was taken, let’s say nibbled away at their own profits. The system had become very rich, too rich, the money was overflowing on all sides, and it became difficult not to let a little of it escape.
In the current economic climate, the laws, regulations and everything that was intended to provide a minimum of security for the weakest have become bad, and it is necessary to deregulate. Absolute power is in the hands of the big bosses, dictatorship can resume, employees, small businesses, workers and many managers can only hang on with difficulty, or even be thrown out, fear reigns. Liberal economists see this as a rebalancing, a normal situation. –
In one system, the weak benefit too much, in the other, it’s the strong who benefit! This is a completely liberal view of the system, because in reality the pro-weak system and the pro-strong system have a totally different nature. The former allows for a distribution of, say, the cake, so that everyone (in Western countries) gets a slice, even if it is small. The second system gives big slices to the big companies, some small ones to the small ones and the crumbs to the employees; a society that breeds poverty, unemployment and misery. “Of the same nature? “
As for deregulations, it is true that they are necessary in some cases, but only by proposing something “better” instead, If it is only to promote further dictatorship we must refuse and fight. If, on the other hand, the big and small bosses propose deregulation, corporate transparency and a more united sharing of future profits in exchange, these measures will indeed be a motivation for all workers.
Regime or system (capitalisms).
We have “two capitalisms”. The first is the “totalitarian” capitalist regime, a dictatorial regime, led by the big economic groups. The second is the individualistic capitalist system, which takes into account the differences between each individual. The first is “without law” of the strongest, the second is managed by transparency and the limitation of over-accumulation.
Capitalist, communist, fascist and religious regimes, as universal models, can only function if the so-called human species is born capitalist, communist, fascist or religious. This is not the case, since each person has a different genetic code, a teaching and an environment, even close to home, which is multiple. Therefore, since we can only do with what we are, with a “nature” that is all different, strong, weak, bad, good, our real chance to manage our real reality in its most creative and progressive aspect, is to free it from all the mechanical regimes in which we want to lock it. Before we can reach the “ideal” level they promise us, let us demand transparency and the limitation of over-accumulation. Wouldn’t that be a good springboard?
Liberal individualism or individualism (individualisms).
The current liberal individualism is only a form of slavery, it is only the permission given to the most powerful and richest to impose themselves on so-called free populations, but which are above all, “a sum of individuals divided from each other without a common project”. This is an ideal situation for liberal, economic, military and political power to impose its will without any possibility of contestation from the separate populations and individuals.
Individualism, on the other hand, is the complete opposite, because it is the freedom of each individual or family to develop a project that will allow them to keep all their autonomy of reflection, creation and reaction. He will be able to develop a family project where he will take into account the needs of his family and a social project where he will take into account others and the future, “his” future. This individualistic project has nothing to do with the liberal individualistic aims, which are divisive and where egoism is king.
Two projects (social individualism).
The only way to change our pseudo-democracies is to have a human project in our heads for today and tomorrow. “An individual family project and a common social project”. With these projects, nothing and nobody will be able to defeat and dominate us, justice, equality and freedom will always be the strongest. We will be able to control the powers individually, but the selfish powers, faced with the multiplication of common individual projects, will no longer be able to do so.
How can individuals as insignificant as we are for the most part, control this anonymous global economic and political power? They can’t! Impossible? Surely, but yet a company like Shell, one of the masters of the world with its billions, its politicians, its scientists, its lawyers, had to quickly, and this despite the immediate support of the government of his most disgraceful majesty: he who still had some illusions about the side on which the heart of our democratic governments leaned must have been very disappointed; to beat a retreat and to make flat excuses so as not to lose his dear pigs of paying customers And, all those powerful people so arrogant and inflexible… normally, in front of the cries of the big shareholders, have turned into wet wipes.
“With an individual family project and a common social project in each of us, no master of the world will ever again have to and be able to dominate and manipulate us.
The cake and eat it too (taxes).
The liberal government is crying out for a reduction in taxes and the state that is strangling them! What do they offer in return? Taking into account that the big companies and their big shareholders are already proportionally favoured. Will they complain about this state of affairs? The loans that the state makes to the big banks put the population in debt, debts that are used to build or to buy at high prices… from whom? To big business! They suck on the population during the loans, they suck on the administration, therefore on the population, when they sell, build, transform, they suck on their employees by underpaying them taxes, they suck on their employees by underpaying them or by increasing the work and the hours, and, on top of that, they want to deregulate again, pay less taxes and complain about the “State”! If that is not spitting in the soup!
If they want to reduce the state, they can best do so by participating directly with the profits of their big companies. But do they want to? Will they help small and medium-sized enterprises? Will they help employees in difficulty? Will they participate in the support of education, health, science, culture etc., but not as they do today, through small donations, advertising and especially for their own profit.
In a first step, the financing must be done partly as today, by the population and partly (momentarily) as “tomorrow” with a distribution of the surplus profits. Then, as a second step, the limitation of the accumulation of wealth and inheritance, coupled with transparency, will allow a more equitable distribution. This better distribution of wealth will encourage creativity and increase the number of small and medium-sized enterprises. This more manageable overall situation will allow the “reduction of the state”. No collectivisations, total freedom within human limits, multiplication – of creativity, of small and medium-sized enterprises -, large enterprises finally obliged to be dynamic, managing global multi-regional exchanges. Very big difficulties for totalitarians, fascists and other pseudo-liberals, to incite violence, to dominate and to wage war.
The day the economists wake up, the current utopian liberal project may be able to give way to other systems. But, as they are well asleep, the liberal USA will cut some, if not all, social and educational aid to the military. A military utopian control, a real fascist coup d’état, as we see in the banana republics. So, before deregulating and lowering “their” taxes, let them propose something other than this liberal bullshit and compensate in an intelligent way for this state they want to “prune”.
Low prices (fair trade).
The price of change for a better global balance will mean higher “prices” in the West. Only transparency and greater economic justice will allow these sacrifices to be understood and accepted by the poorest.
Prices (enlightened consumers). In the age of computers, of surgical precision, of high-speed communication, how is it possible to cheat the populations of the whole world! On the one hand, the poor of the third world who are dying in scandalously underpaid jobs and robbed of their own production, and on the other hand, the western populations who are also dying, by overpaying for these products! Between the two, the big multinationals who are getting scandalously rich. To stop this disaster, the populations of the Third World will have to “hijack” their own companies, to enable them to satisfy their own consumption. The current sordid anti-democratic trade must be changed to allow companies to work primarily for the welfare of the countries and regions where they operate.
The stupid aim of the big multinational shareholders is only to become richer and richer and to have more and more power, and this aim does not suit us at all, and in the same way that we wanted to dismantle the communist countries that were adept at totalitarianism, we must “dismantle” the big totalitarian multinationals. But instead of suffering the disorganised collapse of these countries and throwing the population into the most brutal third world, we must get managers, employees, or any enterprising people – a multitude of people unemployed or re-entering the labour market are full of energy and ready to take on challenges – to restructure these anonymous monsters into a multitude of small and medium-sized enterprises. We need to put the creators, the entrepreneurs, back in charge and put a “real price” on products and services.
Financial capitalist capital designed only to produce money, faster and faster, for the sole profit of a few very large speculators must stop. We must act democratically by “accurately informing” workers, peasants, small traders and entrepreneurs, “all” people in “all” countries about “the price of products” from “place of production” to “place of consumption”.
The families of the third world will see the monstrous surplus value made on their work, while they are unable to feed their children properly and we… and our children, by seeing this same imbalance, by consuming these products, will understand that we are (in)directly responsible for this misery, we will know what the multinational intermediaries steal, and, if after that we still don’t react… we will be able to count on our children, because they will not accept these injustices. We still have a very partial and distant view of our system. World trade must develop with “enlightened” producers and consumers.
Big capital and the defeatists will say that this is impossible! That we will never be able to carry information everywhere! Yet, if you go to any corner of the planet, even the most remote, you will find the most harmful and stupid products of these same big corporations! If they are there, the good information, the one that would be for a “better balance” could not be!
We must refuse this totalitarian power and restructure these inhuman, lawless economic groups that eliminate “their” own people, their own children. Economic and political power are leading humanity down a blind alley, all women… if they don’t monkey with male power… and all men of progress must rediscover a social project for all, and no longer hesitate to take up the fight for democracy… not this anonymous filth of today, but a democracy as transparent as possible.
Wages (unfair wages).
This opacity that prevails in world trade is reproduced within many companies. Employees, workers and managers are often obliged to “hide” their salaries.
Our society has developed a form of individualism that is totally contrary to freedom, but it masquerades as “it”! Under the pretext of individual freedom, many bosses have imposed opacity, which only serves their interests. The disclosure of wages would not put employees in difficulty, but the abusive entrepreneurs, adept at imbalance and unfair wages.
The strategy is simply to divide and conquer, and above all to instil fear. Secrecy in companies creates suspicion between people, everyone is suspicious of their neighbour, and so there is little chance of real rapprochement and reaction from divided employees. Transparency in companies would make it possible to see the inequalities between the too big and too small salaries, between women and men, between the authoritarian individuals and the more “timid” ones who are the ones who are the dolled up.
Individual freedom is the freedom of “our” family, to live as we want, to act with the money we have earned, to spend it, in short… everything that affects the private family sphere. But the company and the wages, if they are fair and correspond to the work we do, need no secrets.
If we want to restore a minimum of balance, if we do not want to end up in the violence and divisions that are growing, if we want to act personally… we hear from all sides that change must start with “oneself”… by asking for LTV we will advance balance.
Individually, and given today’s situation where the bosses hold the knife by the handle, alone it is not possible to act, each one must take “alone” his decision, but only a group of determined people, union or other, will be able to act. If transparent wages are a necessity and a big advantage for all honest workers, transparency of company accounts and profits is an absolute necessity.
Make the decision (let’s help the bosses).
Employees, managers, of large and not so large companies, are we going to let our company managers and big shareholders fight alone for much longer? Will we continue to hide behind the anonymity and opacity that reigns there, and which exempts us from any initiative? How much longer will we allow them to exhaust themselves physically and morally creating mountains of creativity, so that we can take it easy?
In times of war, and as in any war, people act in a heroic and supportive manner, they are highly motivated and ready to fight with all their might. Now that the economic war has been launched, it will be necessary to activate the heroic combativeness in all the companies which suffer from “fusionnitis”, it is necessary to – “creativise” – “deregulate” – “innovate” – “re-vitalise” – “re-structure” –
For example, by “requisitioning” the companies whose survival will only be obtained if motivated employees and managers take command of them… in war as in war… long live the Fatherland. The big shareholders and company managers, overburdened, exhausted, will support these deregulations which they constantly demand.
In times of war, laws are naturally modified for the benefit of security, and for the survival of the nation… long live the Fatherland. In times of peace, the company legally belongs to “its” owner(s), in times of economic war, employees and managers have the moral “right and duty” to requisition it. This patriotic act prevents certain managers and big shareholders from selling it off, dismantling it and breaking it into pieces by causing the elimination of employees, managers and their families. By requisitioning them and taking back the destiny, we will act for the good of the country…vive la Patrie.
Once the company is saved, if it is saved, the former managers and big shareholders will receive an indemnity in proportion to the help they will have given to the personnel who took over. If they wish, they can buy back a certain number of shares. In the case of economic warfare, only the victory of the company in difficulty counts, and there is no doubt that our democratic governments will favour these restructurings… long live the Fatherland. As in all battles, there are unfortunately some sacrificed, we will always have time, afterwards, to offer “medals” to the heroic multi-millionaire shareholders… sacrificed… long live the Fatherland.
But before we reach these, shall we say, just extremes; for the protection of employees, managers, and “their” companies, we must oblige any takeover and merger to retain staff, to use new methods of profit distribution or future profits and to apply transparency in accounts and projects. Employees and managers will only be prepared to act and sacrifice if they know what they have and where they are going. And to try, as we see it today, to maintain the system by force, by deregulating to the detriment of the weakest, to decrease wages, to increase working hours, is a utopia that leads straight to violence.
For hundreds of years, a few Western countries have been able to live on the backs of a huge and increasingly poor Third World. In short, more and more big eaters for a smaller and smaller cake. Before, 50 years ago, the planet was; in our big softened brains; expanding, today, overpopulation, maldistribution of the populations, ecological and sanitary problems, numerous conflicts in activity or ready to be activated, globalization of the consequences of all these problems, show and impose a world which is “shrinking” day by day.
The longer economic power tries to maintain itself “at all costs”, without wanting to progress, the more violent the reaction will be. As the antagonisms are sharpened, we will have an intransigent economic power unleashing its extreme right, creating a “local and limited” order in time, and on the other hand, fighters with a good memory of the past and of the extreme right, going “to the end” of their desperate violence. We can only avoid this disaster by introducing LTV, limiting the over-accumulation of wealth and inheritance, a fairer distribution of work and its price, greater motivation of “all” people living in the company and clear objectives for the future.
To achieve this, the solution is of course not to have to impose these transformations by fighting against each other, but for them to be decided by those who have the peaceful means to do so. Whenever a company director, shareholder or other influential executive takes “himself” the decision to propose transparency of accounts, objectives, and a distribution of profits or future profits, he will have in exchange, a staff that will support him for “fair and balanced” deregulations and wage cuts and that will be motivated and responsible. This is surely the surest way to have real mutual trust, to save the company and to move it forward into the future.
If we look at an amoeba from 1,000,000,000 years ago and a large multinational group today, we see exactly the same behaviour, the bigger one eats the smaller one. Comparing the size of the brains, the comparison is rather unflattering for the so-called human species! Perhaps it is time for a little “qualitative” progress. These suggestions should be endorsed by our anonymous liberal capitalist democracies, since they clamour to innovate, revitalise… etc.
The optimistic sheep (freedom for the strong).
The liberal regime protects its freedom at all costs. The freedom of the big distributors and meat producers who must at all costs be free to produce meat as quickly as possible at the lowest possible price. They have the freedom to feed the animals with any kind of food, economy is king, no hindrance of prudence is tolerated, the meals of sick sheep will be an excellent food, economy and freedom above all. The result of economic freedom, possible poisoning of the animals, development of a lightning disease, risk for humans? Freedom does not include this risk! In the meantime… “rumour”, panicked consumers, refusal to buy beef, collapse for all the small traders, collapse for all the wholesalers, collapse for all the producers, even the big shareholders of the big companies manipulating the meat system are trapped in their own stupidity and greed, as for the country, it takes a nasty blow. By wanting everything now, they have nothing left.
The small businessmen, by turning a blind eye to the system, learn to their cost that even when everything is working, they have to think about “their” actions, even if the profits are coming in for the moment. This is of course not only true for meat traders, but for everyone.
To return to the beef collapse, the government of her disgraceful majesty, one of the champions of liberal freedom, refusing social clauses in the common market but immensely devoted to the cause of the free economy, is simply going to ask for the help of the other members of the community, the help of the workers, the employees, the small farmers, the small shopkeepers, of all the people he despises and throws out into the street without a second thought, all those taxpayers, in order to pay for his selfish and lax bullshit….well, it’s true, he’s also against taxes, the liberals are against all forms of taxes but in this case they like taxes. The other members will simply have to pay for “his” irresponsibility. Ultraliberals hate to be in solidarity with others, but they shamelessly accept help from others.
These “allies” eat each other up, but will not hesitate, thanks to their common economic market, to turn these economic losses into profits! For that they will naturally “try to pass on” their rotten meat…to African countries? Africans…no problem, after AIDS and a lot of other plagues, they can assume the risk of having “holes” in their brains, that will in any case not prevent this European “democratic asshole” government from sleeping.
This freedom of liberalism we must now refuse and immediately shake up our politicians so that they make social clauses a “priority”, and not, as today, when they get together, avoid addressing them on pain of disturbing the economic arrangements.
This example of mad cow disease is an excellent model of the carelessness we “all” show, we behave like sheep…our brains what do we have to fear, we don’t use them anyway…when everything is going well, we leave “everything and everyone” our future in the hands of the big opaque multinationals and their ragged politicians. As they rush in the direction of their immediate interests without the slightest precaution, we suddenly find ourselves in the worst catastrophes. Economic disasters – that’s the last straw for economic champions – or ecological or health disasters, or even all at once.
We are suffering far too many disasters to accept any freedom for the capitalist regime, we must launch a real fight against the freedom of slave liberalism, which allows itself for example to throw thousands of employees out into the street with the blessing of complicit politicians. Since we cannot count on these corrupt politicians, who are unfortunately the most numerous, the citizens who want to conquer their freedom will have to take up the fight like our predecessors.
We find ourselves, like them, in front of a worrying but fortunately “totally open” world, despite the dictatorial powers that seem to give the impression of dominating everything… they only dominate “their own backsides” in reality. We have seen with the “Shell” affair that it takes very little to scare them and like France, which often leads by example, as soon as groups of people are “determined and have a project”, “nothing” can stop them. If people from different countries join forces, we have the same problems, we will succeed with courageous, active and united freedom fighters to restore the balance.
Today, freedom will only be achieved with the help of many movements which, even if they are not all at the same level of protest and demands, some are more radical and others are more conciliatory, will join forces and fight against the selfish power of the managers and big shareholders of big companies.
It is absolutely necessary to have uncompromising protest groups that show the authorities that nothing will stop them and that they will follow through on their demands; the authorities must understand that they cannot escape change. It is in a way the armed branch of the demands. These movements must encourage other citizens, the most aware of the approaching disaster, to act without fear and with determination.
The other movements with “softer” demands that are “in the majority” must convince the largest part of the population, the one that has been lulled by the power, but that today often finds itself close to the centre of the problems and feels “concerned”; to act. The interests of the unemployed, employees, workers, small employers, small shopkeepers, executives, students and civil servants are the same. We all need to come together on a number of ideas and actions, even if we have a different “form” of expression.
The unemployed who have found work again, people in danger of unemployment, the unemployed, as “specialists” of the situation, must spearhead the demands. (The harshness of the situation must push to “act” and not to “shut down or cower”). They must act within parties, unions and associations, motivating these groups to become real fighters, to have objectives that are no longer partisan, corporatist and individualistic, but demands for a real change in society.
The fight must be for real democracy, for a “minimum” of honesty, therefore for transparency and for a different distribution of profits. The different distribution of profits (participation has existed for a long time!) if it allows a better economic balance, is totally insufficient, only “coupled” with transparency, they can “together” lead to true democracy. The sharing of “local” profits or the distribution of working time acts locally in a given region, in a given country and creates a momentary equilibrium, as in the Western countries. The ancient Greeks who ‘invented’ democracy had no problem with the slavery that surrounded their democracy.
Only transparency can make it possible to see the true “nature” of profits, how they are made, how they are distributed. That a number of bankers and other big companies are happy with the profits made in the arms trade, in the drugs trade, in the shameful profits made in the Third World, in child labour, in the profits made by throwing “their own people” out of work, is self-evident. But we have to refuse this filth by making the parties, the trade unions and all the associations react, even if until now the corporatist and mendicant claimant struggle was sufficient in the prevailing situation.
The world is changing and the nature of the reaction must follow or rather “anticipate” the sad clowning of the economic power. The workers, the employees, the managers of big companies, even if they are in a difficult situation to act, must undertake this fight. Placed inside the monsters they have a considerable interest in militating in the trade unions in order to represent a sufficient force to influence the decisions of the politicians, who otherwise let themselves be lulled by the siren song of big capital. Politicians have their asses between two chairs, they are elected for the most part thanks to the money of the big shareholders, so they have to work for them, and for the “form” they have a discourse that they have to have democratic, cinema obliges. This puts them in delicate situations when the unions and the people are “organised” and demand changes.
As soon as problems arise in a big company, the staff of “other” big companies, as well as all the unions, have to mobilise. This “solidarity” between companies, trade unions, regions, countries, will show the economic power that it can no longer manipulate as it pleases. It is in their interest to do this on the sly with the most divided opponents possible. We must now stop playing their game and stop allowing ourselves to be destroyed. The best thing would be “before any decision to react and act”, other companies, unions, associations, should “contact” each other and undertake joint actions. The multiplication and globalisation of these actions will not allow the leaders of these big companies to act as they please, the politicians will themselves be “overwhelmed” and will no longer be able to “come to the rescue” of their master.
We have a fantastic crusade to undertake for the reconquest of balance, democracy and freedom, for that, it is necessary that the “great majority” of the population finds itself in “total solidarity”. For example, when strikes, boycotts and other movements against injustice take place, we must “support” them with all our strength, accepting the “inconveniences”, because today these struggles “always” serve our interests.
The unemployed, with their experience of unemployment, must motivate associations and trade unions to bring about a real transformation of their internal system (to fight against the small powers of the small bosses) and of our system.
Many bosses have a different vision of the company, which is no longer just an asocial money pump, but a dynamic entity that takes into account the “social clause”
– the staff of large groups, through their “mobilising force” and their union activism, can serve as a steamroller
– apprentices and students, through their generosity and desire for justice, must put the fantastic energy they have into “structuring and shaping” the company, the apprentices, the students, through their generosity and desire for justice, must put the fantastic energy they have into “structuring and shaping the contours of transparent democracy”, to modify all the laws serving the dictatorship of totalitarian big business, and thus giving back the best freedom to all the people and to all the companies
– the civil servants, by refusing to let the public service be sold off without a real “give and take” exchange between the public sector and the big multinational companies.
The fight for the LTV at least gives us the possibility to move from being pessimistic sheep to being optimistic sheep, and to stop being pessimistic sheep and to become human beings… we will have to be a little more patient.
Globalising the imbalance (trade liberalisation).
Trade liberalisation is an absolute necessity… ah! It is proposed, raved about, imposed as an inevitable evolution by the big multinationals and their political gnolls, flanked by their brilliant economists, who try to make us believe that “the greater the imbalance, the greater the prosperity”!
For whom? Of course for them. They have the finances, the governments, the press; so our liberals are not too bothered to propose their inevitable system. But do we have to listen to this nonsense?
The current economic mess being what it is, what is needed is to privatise and resize the large totalitarian multinationals… by confiscating part of the shares for the benefit of our governments which, it should be remembered, present themselves as liberal and democratic; which should therefore normally represent the citizens (!) and which should, in the current situation, at least impose complete transparency.
The liberal citizen employee and the liberal citizen must know the accounts of these companies, the nature of the profits, the nature of the distribution of power and profits. Either we want liberalism or we don’t, we do.
With the precise information we obtain, we can install controls liberally, so that each region can maintain a minimum of balance by no longer allowing imports from anywhere.
At the level of nations, the dice are loaded; at the top of the pyramid are the large multinationals of the United States and their hyper-militarised government, followed by the Chinese, Russians, Japanese and European multinationals, and then those of the different continents, as well as their governments, all of these monsters share out the world prey that they devour with great gusto. Then local sub-monsters share the leftovers, leaving only the bones to be gnawed on by small businesses and craftsmen, who are not always more sympathetic to their base…which will soon be very angry with all these beautiful people and will not be long in liberating themselves from the liberals. Our governments must re-establish very strict rules by protecting regional productions, the conditions not being at all the same from one region to another, it is a total imbecility to allow this pseudo liberalization, which on the other hand is a real planetary dictatorship. Previously, only third world countries lived under this liberal regime, they suffered from the invasion of our products and especially the plundering of theirs, now the whole planet has to live through this disaster!
The only ones to be liberated by liberalisation are the monstrous multinationals, which had been hardly contained by rules and social gains painstakingly acquired during generations of hard struggle by our parents, and which are liberated by our corrupt governments, which betray their fellow citizens in the most urbane way, but which will pay a high price, because a completely liberalised monster will impose “imprisonment” for all workers, for all populations…they will finally be suffocated and swallowed up in the same disaster as their masters…to “neo-liberation”.
Global liberalisation of the planet will only happen when we have taken control of all the big companies and re-established very strict rules in multinational trade…then it is possible that the best possible balance can be achieved…let’s remain optimistic…despite human nature.
The courageous entrepreneur (the consumers’ voice).
Large multinational companies operating in the third world sometimes feel remorse! Yes, in a moment of temporary distraction and lucidity…somewhat inspired by consumers who are more and more careful about where their products come from…sometimes one of them rediscovers a small part of a humanity that was sacrificed a long time ago…for the sake of profits. Some go so far as to offer their workers a salary that would almost be enough to feed their families, or even to benefit from “good” working conditions, considered unacceptable in any Western country (except the United States) but so much better than under the dictatorship of other multinationals.
What is the entrepreneur going to do when pushed to lucidity? He will grant these better conditions, then produce at prices…higher than his direct competitors who continue to benefit from slavery. Faced with this imbalance to his disadvantage, his goodwill will very quickly show its limits, and he will immediately “set up” a sister company with which he will once again produce more cheaply by putting the workers of his sister company under the normal slavery conditions of the other multinationals, and then he will say…tried not to. Poor courageous multinational creative hero forced to give up, poor fighter victim of his temerity succumbing after a hard fight…rest his soul.
Does a multinational entrepreneur have to be such a jerk? Must he necessarily ‘surrender’ in such an inglorious, cowardly way? Isn’t an entrepreneur a fighter who will do anything to succeed! Are we not faced with a new form of entrepreneur, one that is in name only, but who is in reality a poor cretin. A real entrepreneur who (finally) realises that his system is a real rottenness must become a fighter against rottenness, especially as he has the means to do so. He has the economic power to finance advertising campaigns in newspapers, he has his own newspaper(s), his lawyers and economists to attack other multinational groups. By its action and example it will receive the support of many organisations that have been fighting for a long time, but without means or with very limited means, it will receive the support of consumers who will favour its products, the support of trade unions and social parties, it will allow the workers of other multinational groups to undertake struggles with tenfold efficiency. It can create the conditions for the emergence of a more balanced system. This is what a “true entrepreneur” must be, who is aware of the rot he creates.
Those who will start in the direction of balance will have the maximum chance to see their company develop thanks to the motivation of their staff and the support of the population, the others will not have much longer to do so, because because of the economic degradation, many of us understand and no longer want to accept hypocritical and slavery-like methods.
By merging like incompetents, in a first step they increase the profits of their big shareholders, by liquidating their employees, but in a second step, “They will be very easy to launch powerful boycotts against rare isolated mega groups”.
The fight between the (future) mega groups of workers and the mega economic groups (even if the mega economic groups are strengthened as usual by the fascists on duty) can only be favourable to the citizens, who even if they consider themselves as grains of sand or drops of water, are despite this state of temporary personal mental weakness, still and definitely “the most numerous”. It is enough for us “the least of these” to have a project well “anchored” in our little heads, and to “more than firmly” incite the powers that be to act for a better balance and to refuse opacity.
Small and medium-sized companies that act to obtain profits naturally but also include a social project; better communication and economic balance between the people in the company, better balance with consumers, better balance with the environment; For these, who are becoming more and more numerous, there is an imperative need to communicate their systems to other entrepreneurs, to make a “maximum of publicity” on their experience in order to show that a more balanced positive current exists, and above all to show that the monolithic thinking of the large groups, even if it gives us the image of being the only one, is no longer the only one, notwithstanding the displeasure of his majesty liberalism.
If the entrepreneurs have a key, the press, the parties and the unions also have a great role to play in the dissemination and success of this trend.
Liberal economics has shown us that it is a stupid utopia for two reasons. The first is that its talk of economic freedom is a ridiculous lie, because only the transnationals and the stock exchanges are free to impose their laws, as everyone can see. The transnationals are the instruments of plunder and genocide, and the stock exchanges don’t give a damn about companies, they are simply interested in buying and selling them and their employees, like vulgar objects. Secondly, because the liberal purpose is only to serve the interests of the “big families”, who are free to monopolise everything. By accepting this situation, we demonstrate our exceptional unintelligence.