Saturday, February 09, 2019

Dreamers and Realities of Capitalism


A recent issue of the Canadian Jewish News ran an article which focused on the plight of the Yazidi’s, the aboriginal people of Iraq, which are now being raped, murdered and enslaved by ISIS. Their history goes back 7,000 years, but their numbers have dwindled from a high of 23 million down to one million. They are now experiencing their 74th genocide. 

Yet there are still people who want capitalism to continue, but without atrocities – and they think socialists are dreamers.

Recently there has been a rash of convenience store robberies in Hamilton, Ontario. Young men have been driving trucks into them and stealing the ATM machines. So far there have been no injuries and no arrests. 

That such actions are crazy, callous and criminal, is symptomatic of capitalism these days.

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