“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Waging war on another oppressed person never ends with our freedom. There is only more blood — and deeper trenches.
“Wars, it is said, are caused by ‘nationalism’, that is, love of country. This is an illusion. Wars, in nearly every instance in modern times, have been caused by economic factors and the exploitation of the national spirit to further individual ends. The causes of war are to be found in the conflicting interests and jealousies existing between powerful financial organizations. Financiers secure power in their own country by placing within the government ‘statesmen’ who will do their bidding, and when the clash comes, they stimulate in peoples every crude instinct of hate and murder.”
Consider that in the decade preceding 2009 the bottom 99 percent of Americans shouldered approximately 63 percent of federal taxes, and that those taxes were allocated into the pockets of the top 1 percent, in part, through war and militarization. Also consider that the richest of the rich pay significantly lower tax rates than the working class. If we look at these facts rationally we come to understand the true meaning of the phrase “redistribution of wealth,” that it is not a picture of the rich giving disproportionally a piece of “their” pie to the working class for our sustenance, rather it is a picture of the rich taking the entire pie from working class tables and expecting thanks for the crumbs left.
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