>>477950There's a belief that the status Jews took as a result of Israel's existence and threat to the world can be kept without the unpleasantness of Israel, as if the Arabs were a subdued people and the "genocide is done" as with the Indians in America, for whom revanchism wouldn't even mean anything in their current status. The Jewish liberal has certainly been a beneficiary of the status quo where Israel exists and its effect on spiritual enemies - which includes the Christians as well as the Muslims - forces both to attack each other. It's very easy to take the high road when you're distant enough from consequences and the target is not on you, and for understandable reasons, liberal Jews really do not want a target on them. So, you see - and they're not the only participants in events doing this - an effort to have their cake as they please, one way or another. So many view the situation in Palestine as a vehicle for their very personal agendas and don't even pretend it's anything else. Certainly the Pals are tossed aside by everyone as soon as they are not useful as a foreign relations prop, which is why the Muslim world is difficult to unite. The last time the Arab world ganged up on Israel for a big war they got fucked pretty hard. Now, though, the faith in "conquering the inferiors with technology" no longer applies. The Arab/Muslims have much of the same technology as the Israelis and the Empire, or counter-measures to imperial technology and no shortage of engineers and scientists among their own. The implications of this - that the mythology of "industrial war" and the narratives of history no longer apply - scare the shit out of classes and interests in society that make their entire business model about cajoling others to do their bidding.
The entire liberal order, Jew and gentile, is clearly guilty of aiding and abetting Israel's existence in one way or another, and see it as a tool far away to do with as they please. If they were at all concerned about anything on the ground there, there would be a drive to get rid of the Zionist Entity and make peace with the Muslims as far as possible. Unfortunately, Bush threw that away so he could go a-conquering for Jesus and bring on the Rapture. The liberal world order was happy to allow this because their theories of history and modus operandi required them to believe they were the smartest people in the room, and they were going to manipulate and brainwash everyone to love their slavery.
Naturally, when this fails, the backup plan is to push all of the responsibility and war guilt on to the people, and say it was their fault and their moral failure, and that they always resemble the worst versions of themselves. If you are an Israeli with dual citizenship and Israel is no longer viable, where do you acquire property to live? The dispossession of the Americans, who they always hated, is great for this. Everything being done to Palestine either has already been visited on the American people, or is threatened if they refuse to comply with more seizures, more backsliding of basic decencies. That is the main reason for this nonstop torture cult since the 1980s, the glorification of human ugliness far past anything the Nazis ever accomplished. And of course, liberal Jews can say what they like about opposing Israel, but they're not going to sacrifice their position if they can hold on. The situation in the former US is designed to pit all against all in an orgy of unprecedented malice and human sacrifice. It's a special Hell, and so far as I know, it's only happened here and in the Anglo countries so far as it can be pressed. No one else is brainwashed enough to accept it, and nowhere else does imperial eugenics have such a hammerlock on all institutions. In that situation, the only thing will be for everyone to pick whatever provincial interest and alliance they can - and anyone who would be decent or see the futility of agreeing to this philosophy of selfishness has been selected for failure already. Only those who supplicate to eugenics can survive. The rich and favored classes, the favored interests of the world to come, are most conscious of what they hold and the sacrosanctity of their institutional chokehold, and what would happen if those institutions were railed against. A psychological and medical inquisition cannot drop their arms. They will fight to the death, and the thrill of torture will only increase the longer such professions are allowed this hammerlock on life.
It went on too long. The possibility of a different world is gone, and the sickest thing is that few will diagnose the nature of the problem. Those who do, hilariously enough, are those who see no reason to end it, who will just say - brag, even - about what they got away with, because the damned selected to die have nowhere to go. I don't blame them. I blame the enablers who follow it without thinking.
>>477951>That's simply what money was when he was alive.He's pretty clear that this is what makes money recognizably "money" that is relevant to the situation he is describing. Currency in precious metal issued by states is ancient, and commodity-money without the stamp of state issuance is older still, but neither of these are money with the same functions as the money of merchant banks, and do not fulfill the role money fills in capitalism. It's still money, and nothing prevented ancient and pre-ancient finance from making loans, doing usury, or managing their operations as if they operated in price-setting markets and their operations were a going concern. The currency's backing from precious metal, or some other substance whose existence isn't questioned, is one defining quality of money as opposed to credit or company/government scrip - that, whatever the claims of any institution, money is understood as something transferable across them, for the purposes money can command. Property-holders in land, industrialists, workers, and beggars all comprehend what money is and whether money is worth anything, but credit or scrip is either of dubious value, or explicitly recognized as valueless or hostile to them in its entirety, and will not accept scrip in place of something regarded as money, or follow the government's command to value everything as the face value of coins or paper notes represents. Money can be debased - coins can contain nearly no gold or silver - but no one doubts that the coin is meant to represent some store of precious metal or be exchanged as such. When that breaks down, all of those bank IOUs are worth nothing, or their worth is qualitatively something else.
>The economic system we live in now is so completely different to what marx was writing about that trying to understand modern economics by reading marx is like trying to understand modern science by reading aristotle.Except this is basically what Marx said would and should happen - not as the goal, but as a means to whatever end those who seize the state and the bank had. Inflation as a concept was not alien to economics - it was the inflation of so much gold and silver entering European markets that brought about an investigation of what economics and value really meant, and gold and silver were never "intrinsically valuable" or had any special claim to be worth anything. Neither was the state's ability to dictate value ever a question, or the issuance of fiat money or credit or scrip at various periods of history. Marx was certainly aware of what something like the federal reserve would result in, as were the people who started the project. None of these people are operating blindly and doing whatever feels good - it has always been carried out for deliberate purposes and with considerable knowledge of what economic activity occurs on the ground.
While it's true that you couldn't read Marx to know exactly what this "is" - it wasn't germane to the topic Marx was writing about - it's not as if this outcome were unknowable and totally fooled everyone. When the federal reserve happened, anyone with an investment knew they were defeated. That's one reason why the timidity towards the new imperial doctrine and its efforts to push people to go to war with each other. Those who knew what money was knew they lost, and this is the result.
The economic situation today is indeed very different, but not in the way you probably think. Quantities of value were displaced by selection of specific qualities and general schemes by which they could be selected. Money and property were steadily displaced with a view of technology and the modus operandi to both make new technology, and direct its development so that messy things like "democracy" no longer interfered.