A message to all small “c” conservatives, the so-called
“free market” neo-liberal ideology that the Conservative establishment is
pushing will wipe us out. This ideology if carried to its logical conclusion
would allow the Chinese communists to buy out all of our industries.
If the Nexen oil deal angered you, how angry would you be if
the communists owned all of our media companies, all of our telecommunications
networks, all of our agricultural production capabilities, our banks, our
health care delivery mechanisms, our architectural and engineering firms, our
public infrastructure and related repair and construction, how about if we
started to contract out our military, intelligence or police requirements to foreign
state owned corporations. Yes a bit of hyperbole, but consider the implications
of a pure “free” market economy with no rules or state intervention.
When the government green lighted all those Chinese miners
to come into the country and the controversy erupted, the communists instructed
one of miners to speak to our media in defense of the plan. He cited
neo-liberal economics in defense of the scheme suggesting in a free market it
shouldn’t matter if the workers are Canadian or Chinese the jobs should go to
the best workers at the best price. It has even been suggested that Canada
does not own the oil, apparently some feel it belongs to corporations.
The communists know full well our politics; they have spent
massive amounts of resources to learn how they work. They know how to frame the
issues so that they resonate with certain constituencies. The communists would
never allow other countries to gain control of strategic industries deemed
critical for security reasons, but they have developed a communications
strategy to play to the outdated “free enterprise” constituency of Western
voters in an attempt to justify imperial expansion.
In George Orwell’s Animal farm (Spoiler alert), a revolution
occurs on a farm and a group of pigs takes charge claiming that from then on
things would be different. By the end of the book the pigs put on suits and
make a deal with the farmers. The book was written as a critique of the Russian
revolution. Strangely there is a parallel to the situation Western nations are
facing now. These days there are plenty of pigs in suits willing to shake hands
with the evil communist emperors they once claimed to protect us from.
State intervention in the economy has been the basis of
society since society has existed. Military defense, public infrastructure/
irrigation projects, police, education, health care, scientific research, many
good things have been brought to us through government involvement in the
economy.
The economy is not monetary figures, not numbers in an
equation or on a balance sheet, the economy is what is happening all around us,
it is what we occupy our time with. It is the activities that we all engage in and
the result of those activities. Long ago on the Nile delta there was no stock
exchange and no central bank but there was an economy. There were people
growing food, people building infrastructure, people crafting tools and pots,
musicians, and yes tax collectors and soldiers and public administrators.
There is confusion in our society, the confused faith that
the economy is all about how many 0’s and 1’s of binary code are in
configuration on the hard drive at the bank. This confusion is not held by all
societies, some societies still remember that an economy is about the physical
results achieved in the real world.
While the sale of Nexen, or the AMC movie theater chain
takeover, or the construction of telecommunications networks by Huawei may look
good on paper, in the real world these actions are acts of self inflicted
damage to our economies. We provide resources to our competitors so they can
gain experience and knowledge performing the tasks that once would have been
reserved to locals. We train our competitors as they gain control over the
physical elements of our society, against the warnings of the state security
apparatus whose expertise it is to advise us on such matters.
This is why the economy is a matter of national security.
National capability is the collective skill set and physical capitol pool
available under state authority. We are in effect not separate legal entities
because once the state no longer has the capability to defend our claims to “property”,
said property will not be ours for long. The ties that bind our communities and
institutions enable our existence and prosperity; these ties are bound by the
state. If our National capability is degraded to the point where our state no
longer posses the viable option of defense, our lands, our women and the blood
of our sons will be shed as our sovereignty is traded for the shackles of slavery.
It is against this danger that state intervention in the
economy is justified. Action must be taken to ensure that nations maintain the
capabilities necessary for their defense in a world of full spectrum warfare.
The struggle for this century to this point has been one of intense economic
war waged by parties with varying levels of awareness of the dynamics of the
conflict.
During the Second World War it was accepted among the
Western elite that the state had a responsibility to strategically direct the
economy because it was a necessity to winning the conflict. It seems that the
young who where indoctrinated during the cold war to reject all things
centrally planned as the ways of the enemy took that message to heart and
brought it with them all their life to where they are now occupying positions
of power.
There are three kinds of people who support neo-liberal
“free” market economics, 1) those who stand to personally profit from
minimizing state involvement in their business dealings, 2) those who actually
believe it, 3) a confused mix of both.
There is no justification for risking a nations security to
enhance ones personal wealth, such actions are actions of treason, political
subversion through economic means. The communists know full well that the West
is full of pigs in suits ready to shake hands with the devil. We have a
business class without historical memory, without any frame of reference other
than the neo-liberal economic theory indoctrinated into them as pre-requisite
to their entry into the upper class.
This is how we have lost our economy, outsourced our future
and threatened our national security. A failed process of socialization, in
that the young are not given what is needed to maintain a civilization. Greed
is no foundation.
Mindless consumers will not save us, so we had better stop
producing them. Reform will take a willingness to accept citizen
self-government, a feat not possible if citizens are not taught citizenship.
Without a classical education ideology will rule, for there will be no way to
adapt processes in response a rapidly changing environment. Those who do not
adapt will fall to those that can; it is precisely the free market ideology
that justifies the land beneath our feet being sold off to the most violent and
oppressive foreign power in the world.
We must expand the mandate of our state security apparatuses
to include economic affairs. The business class must take its place as servants
of a comprehensive state strategy. Power must be wrestled from the grasp of
industry and anointed to those who take national security as the highest
priority.
This is the recipe for civilizational revival.
