Who rules the world- Reply to Thomas Leonard.

Response to WHO RULES BIG PHARMA AND THE WORLD? By Thomas Leonard.

"If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable – and this is why we are the enemies of the State."-Bakunin.

"Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power he has purchased of him."- Marx.




My friend, I swear you must be potty
I think your mind is confused,your logic knotty.
You read bold lies like the holy book
when they are just tin foil hat conspiracies
that easily let authorities off the hook
when you spout this nonsense,its only them you please
failing to filter truth through your gills
you feed the cancerous disease.
You blame Rothschilds or  a  'Eugenics Consortium'
confuse similarities with the source of the sore
instead of  confronting the realities in front of your face,
you spin webs of lore.
While evil happens out in the open
you're inventing stories,
and holding your breathe for shadowy men
fail to blame boardroom cabals  and end up
absolving them.
I see your type
quote mining, distorting JFK speeches
to find your phantoms
and pretend capitalists aren't leeches.
Your method isn't scientific
your analysis lacks credibility,
making your conclusions bunk
your 'logic' horrific.
your 'research' holds to sense
Like evaporating vapour
your arguments aren't
worth the paper.
Some things are settled science,
you say you rebel against the establishment
no! I think its reason , that you're in defiance.
You need to develop critical thinking skills
instead of listening to the next hoaxster
who comes along
that has your rationality running for the hills.
You invite superior argument,
I wonder if you'd know it if it bit you on the arse
you struggle to seperate fact from fiction,
evidence from farce.
Far from giving understanding and explanation
you drip feed the gullible, your  confusion and mystification.
I want to talk about what's actually going on
but conspiracy theorists  derail the conversation
lead  down dead end alleys and obscure the obvious
they're the enemies of liberation.
Conspiracy theorist think their putting the world to rights
but really their regurgitating myths
invented by anti-semites.
You're no better than the corporate media or politicians leading the gullible
to believe something's gone amiss
acting conveniently for capitalism, you teach false consciousness.
Repeating re-hashed and reheated  Larouche, Alex Jones or David Icke,
operating by confirmation bias,
you cheerfully ignore evidence you don't like.
I'm so familiar with debunking lies, truth is my lover
The evils of the rulers are more deeply embedded
more mundane than the fictions, you seek to uncover.
They're Arendt's Banality
let's be clear here,
The world is controlled by capitalists and states
that's the reality.
To name a few,
The World Bank, EU,  the IMF and the WTO
landlords,bosses and multinationals like Monsanto.
the problem is the system not the people in charge
not shadowy groups
but the total network of power relations at large.
You'd  learn better reading Marx or Bakunin
its from them, you'd gain a clear understandin'.
While money exists, nothing speaks louder
profit= power and  money speaks
From Argentina to the crisis of the Greeks.
Governments always  act only for the rich
ensuring that capital flows without a hitch
Governments only purpose, maintain what exists
we learn our power in action, in a mass of raised fists.
The ultimate problem in the world is Hierarchy
which sets some above the rest
Bakunin said  "Power corrupts the best"
divides between superiority and inferiority
we need global democracy,
a revolution against the 1%
by the oppressed majority.
Instead of being run by politicians,bosses or bureaucrats
a sham of representatives where everything's for show
I advocate a world opposite to everything we know
a world organised in a direct democracy,
local to regional to global,
a world organised from below.
A system that eliminates incentives for greed
a society where everyone can freely get what they need.
where instead of commands from on high,
from the authority of parliament, palace or steeple
the masses learn to self-organize
and put into practice,
"power to the people!".



Argument:-

I believe conspiracy theories such are above are contrary( and even counter-revolutionary) to a correct understanding of what is going on in the world. These ideas mask and mystify who really controls the world and how to fight back against them. Conspiracy theories move from an analysis to facts whereas a revolutionary perspective moves from facts to analysis.

There is no need to invent fictions because the rulers of the world are well known. The world is ruled by the national and international capitalist class(composed of bosses, landlords, bankers, corporations and multinationals) and by states( nation states and international bodies like the WTO,IMF, World Bank, EU etc). Capitalism is a concentration of economic power, governments are concentration of political power i.e. decision-making.

The source of the problems of the world are the division between superiority and inferiority which are created by hierarchies of all kinds. These systems of oppression include capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, the gender binary, ableism, heteronormativity, anthropocentrism,speciesism etc.