Capitalism is a remarkable system.
On the one hand,
it produces remarkable wealth
and fantastic technologies by
which to create more wealth.
And on the other hand, it creates new forms of
depravity, humiliation, poverty, hopelessness.
So hopelessness and poverty and iPhones, 
being created by the same production line,
that's capitalism.
It's a system that produces it's own crisis,
that constantly undermines itself.
And when there is a crisis, whole generations
of people are thrown into the dustbin of history.
They get angry.
It's at that point that the left's
failure to organise humanity,
against the misanthropy of
capitalism feeds into fascism,
because fascism is all about harvesting
the bitter crop of discontent.
Since our generations 1929, 
which of course took place in 2008,
the number one task of the establishment
was to shift the bankers losses,
onto the shoulders of the weakest citizens;
Effectively transfer huge wealth
to the bankers from the have-nots.
But austerity leads to very low levels of demand,
which leads to very low levels of investment.
So you give all this money to the bankers,
whether you printed or actually transferred it,
they look at the plebs out there,
they realise that these people can't buy our stuff,
so they don't invest in production.
What they do is: use the money that has been
transferred to them to buy back their own shares.
So their assets go up, share prices, bonuses and so on;
house prices go through the roof.
At the same time: there's no investment.
So this contributes to humanities failure
to do anything about climate change,
because unless you invest in green
technologies it won't happen.
It also contributes to the perpetuation
of the economic disaster,
that then requires more austerity.
But in order to continue along the lines
of this catastrophic route,
you need more doses of authoritarianism,
in order to impose those
idiotic polices on the many.
You have: The Nationalist International,
on the one hand.
And: The International of Horror,
on the other:
the bankers, large corporations
and a political class,
that has been fed by those oligarchs;
groomed by them, lobotomised by them.
And of course the media that are 
owned by the same oligarchs,
whose job is to peddle the
views of the establishment.
But at the same time there is: 
The Nationalist International,
those who supposedly are full of rage against:
The Internationally of Horror,
but who in the end use the discontent that
austerity and authoritarianism creates,
for them to become strongmen,
just like in the 1930s and the 1920s;
The Nazis railed against the bankers
railed against capitalism even,
in order to become the lapdogs
of the worst of the capitalists.
I'm talking about the Trumps, the Savinis, 
the Farages, the Le Pens and so on.
Now the reason why the left
is the only political force,
that did not benefit from its capacity
to predict the 2008 crisis,
is because we have a remarkable capacity for disunity,
incoherence, fragmentation.
Anybody who has watched the first sequences in the
Life of Brian knows exactly what i'm talking about.
It's time that we get our act together,
that we organise
and emulate the manner in which the fascists and
the bankers manage to collaborate internationally.
The establishment is astonishing at propaganda,
They utilise words like liberty and competition
in order to promote exactly the opposite.
So what we of the left need to do
is firstly exposes the hypocrisy,
and secondly to steal back
what was taken away from us.
We need to reclaim liberty,
when it comes to economic decision-making.
Now nobody has any decision making powers,
or freedom or choice, except for the very, very few
who have to capacity to transfer their loses
onto the shoulders of everyone else.
We need to target three ideas.
The first one is poverty.
We need to create anti-poverty programs.
We need to do this through the
weaponisation of existing institutions.
Like for instance in Europe, magnificent profits 
made by the European Central Bank
through its quantitate easing program
should be funding the fight against poverty.
Secondly, we need 5% of GDP to be invested
in the Green transition. Immediately.
Thirdly, we live in a world where money flows freely and
human beings are behind bars; we need to reverse that.
We need to have freedom of movement
for people and capital controls.
We need to revamp the international financial system
to the level of the very short-term,
the medium-term and the long-term,
But at the same time we need
to plan for post-capitalism;
to force large companies to give a proportion
of their shares to a global equity fund,
an international equity fund, a European one,
a British one, a public equity fund.
The privatisation of socially
produced capital must end,
and we must begin to socialise
socially produced capital.
Hope lives eternally in our hearts,
we cannot do anything about it, thankfully.
As long as there is something inside of us
which is the core of our humanity
we are going to maintain hope
against all evidence.
Because all the evidence is very bleak.
But we have no right
to be empirical about it.
Unlike the weather, which is independent
of what we think about it,
history is made by people who don't
give a dam about predictions,
and who do what they think is right.
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Unless we create our own progressive media,
we have no chance of fighting
against the rabid propaganda
of an establishment that is absolutely efficient
when it come to brainwashing people.
It is what will make the difference
between success and failure
for progressive movements
across the world.
