Against exploitation

[matrixmann]

Nations are the only thing that can protect you against the impacts of globalization.

Comments

[real-marsel.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I would say nation is something capitalists came up with to have economic zones of influence and now they are at the stage of imperialism with monopolies ruling the world. You might be right but how can you do it practically when monopolies are very powerful and dictate policies?

[matrixmann]

I noted this down for the sake - during the fuzz about the Brexit, I kind of got the impression like a lot of people, mostly that talk about that free travel, free work and being home everywhere shit, didn't get what this whole thing of globalization works like.
The whole thing, the negative aspects of globalization, are possible just because of no borders and no rules. It is because all of that national state policy was abandoned and the kingdom is as big as a continent.
Strong states give capitalists that resonance "adapt to our rules or fuck you and get lost!", which weakened and sold-out states with no politicians in position which hold a solid opinion and fight for them don't give them. Rather, these are helpers to them getting that territory sell out even more.

Turning back the wheel of time might not be easy, but one can say: Which choice you have left? Give up and give in to that the world is a corrupted zoo that's property of 200 wealthy families?

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

But what if there is a natural and objective way for a global revolution? Think about it: 1%of populations has the wealth of the 90% of the rest or what is the data? I don't know exact but something outrageous. People will have no choice but to revolt soon. But you are right in the sense that the wealth helps control population with police and army simply because the elite has the money.

[matrixmann]

There's going to be the need fot it to be global, as global is the only way to smoke all possible shelters and centers of a counter-revolution out. But, nevertheless, the erosion of national obstacles for the global players just made it possible for them to act like they are global players that can't be stopped. It made it possible to act like a kraken which eats and eats like a virus or a tumor.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Probably the reality is just as Marx said that it will be all around the world. Although, what about African nations that are still in feudalism at best, I wonder. Suppose, they are independent as nations, but they are so poor.

Well, there are two possibilities: change the system or it will eat us.I just don't get it:don't people see its devastation, they cannot blame it on anything else but capitalism.

[matrixmann]

I'd say they're caught up in other matters. Private matters, fears from becoming unable to live a decent life (becoming homeless and such) - inability to distinguish important matters from lesser important matters ("setting priotities" they call that), and, at all, skills to recognize when being lied to or distracted or picking up the wrong belief (stupid conspiracy theories) and to perceive the truth among all this. Then you also have the attitude "after me the deluge", not wanting to think, to wanting to mind, just living a life thoughtlessly and hoping it won't hit you in your lifetime.
And then, looking at those in the third world, those which really have problems surviving the day. Which even have the problem to get hold of enough food, enough water and a warm place to sleep.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

It is true that people don't care what is going to happen tomorrow. May be because everyone is in denial. People are delusional and all stupid social media, video games, alcohol help them to escape reality.
Besides, being defines consciousness. I noticed how people are changing and becoming more and more cynical and not caring. Even the close relatives because this world teaches you to be like that. Like a wolf or you won't survive.

[matrixmann]

I'd say the matter is more complicated than that. I've had to do with this long enough to ask myself why and I come to that recognition. It is something between burying one's head in the sand, getting prevented from doing what you actually want to do by other things, setting the wrong priorities, false imaginations about how the world logically works like (media and education that is none play a role in this), being helpless and just the radical "I don't want to hear, I don't to see - after me the deluge, what matters is that I had a good life". Well, and maybe fatalism "I see what I can still get out of here and if the downfall comes, I'm gonna celebrate".
Some positions among that I can't even blame people for as they are pretty human, as you can always get in a situation like this and be that way yourself. You know?
I study myself through all kinds of positions to find an answer for this to get out of that passivity, but don't think I've ever found an answer in between meanwhile.
You know, it's also become pretty difficult to get people dragged with a thing, that they feel talked to and look up to some hero who takes the flag and leads them. It's like people have also become very desillusioned if it is about dreams and hopes.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Well, I think it is simply a combination of objective reality that affects an individual and some subjective views and the way people brains work. That is how you can explain that some people can see what others don't.

And dreams and hopes are coming from their helplessness. People? instead of judging world from materialist point of view become idealists in philosophical understanding, meaning they believe in some fate, good luck, god etc that will take care of everything.

BTW what do you think of religion? Are many people religious in Germany?

[matrixmann]

Hm... Well, they stick with unrealistic dreams and hopes, with things they expect to come out of the blue and rain down on them and make everything suddenly better. Like a messiah. Creating some dreams and hopes and believing in making them true themselves, that's a point that gets more rarer than rare already is.

Religion is a difficult part to tell on as it's not the same everywhere - and as it's a matter of "which religion you ask about?"
Within the Muslim communities, I don't see faith fading away.
With the Catholic and the Lutheran church I'd say it's different.
Numbers of members decrease each year, the Catcholic church I think especially for them covering up what their priests did and do to children (if you know what I mean).
On the other hand, I don't see a very big decreasing in faith or being religious at all. People only leave the churches because they don't feel they represent their real life anymore, so they stick with being religious in their own way, but not in the way the churches preach it.
I don't think that's a very good circumstance - as people which rely on a God and dream of "one day, it will be different" ( = different out of the blue), they tend to remain in apathy and passivity. They tend to give up and take the world as "we're absolutely powerless, we can't do anything, so let's not think about this or that".
Think I even had a very suitable song for that, it's called "Godd" by Marco V.

If you ask me about how much power religion has within the state, I'd tell you it has remarkably a lot. You see that on the difficulties wanting to make a step towards limiting what Islamic religion (or whatever is sold as that) is allowed to do here or other religions or on that circumstance that you can't get it out of the CDU party to finally call their "eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft" for homosexual couples "civil union" too even though several smaller courts declared the legal differences betweeen regular marriage and this all for unlawful and they got the same rights as man-woman married couples.
That has always been a religious question and still is a religious question for why they don't want to include it.

And - maybe to say it in the best short words: I think religion is very easily accessible. It is very easy to come to believe in some kind of bullshit, in magic creatures and angels, rather than you get urged to believe in nothing and tell "God? Who is God? Can you eat this?!".
In the East it may be better to live as an atheist as there still come the old habits into effect, faith wasn't very dearly seen in the GDR, even though they let believers have their way with days off for religious holidays and such. But quite a lot of people also abused that for getting some extra free time compared to those with no belief.
I don't know how to explain; the state kept an eye on church not trying to make politics - which would very probably resulted in them trying to claim politics in the West and therefore bring the whole communist project of a state and society into danger. (It later worked very well for Poland with making a Polish man become the pope of the Catholic church, just mentioning.)
Just to say: This something that one has to thank you Russians for. I think that came here in that extent just because Stalin conquered half of Europe.
The Americans on the other side of the Brocken mountain didn't take away God out of peoples' heads in West Germany (as America is itself a pretty theorcratic state).

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think the religion in general getting more popular due to the reasons you have mentioned. In Russia now it is very popular because it is imposed on people and it makes them think it will give them good luck now and eternal life later. And as education system is getting worse people are getting dumber and believe all that garbage that people believed in middle ages. Ironically they claim they pulled people in GDR from middles ages meanwhile Christianity that is still so widely popular is something that belongs to middle ages. And middle ages are called Dark ages for a reason.

[matrixmann]

Pulled from the Middle Ages? Thanks to my own knowledge I know atheism was a matter that came with Stalin. Stalin itself was raised as you could be raised at the time he grew up - which included religion -, but he himself seems like he became not that much of a practicer in his later life. So he lead war and spread communism throughout Europe.

I even observe that from far away that the Orthodox church in your country has gotten a hell lot of a boost in support over - say, the last 15 years. I don't know, in that Russians are a little strange. You can also live and be proud of your culture without all that.
But, I also think it's a kind of playing counter-culture towards the European culture which turns into a kindergarten and which celebrates itself for some openness that is on the threshold of threatening normal life.
You know, I had some text here using the term "gayropa" in its headline and I even shared my doubts about what the fuck Europe is doing in that department, in celebrating their gay prides where people run around dressed like and acting like not even a child could take them seriously as adults and where they make figures like Conchita Wurst winner of the Eurovision Song Contest only to make Eastern Europe shout in disgust.
In that way, I even agree with the Russian side which pledges for finding its own way with that as the kind that America found is dependent on different circumstances that created it. In Europe it should be that way too, American culture has also spread in that way over Europe and I don't think it's doing it good.
But, on the other hand, I can't understand people which can drive a tank suddenly then can voice such views like all people in the West turn into cowards just because they get surrounded with gay propaganda all over the day. Like: How can you get upon that thought of throwing both things into a coherence? And that from grown up men, grown up men and maybe even women, which are as intelligent to do things it really needs brains for. - And then in connection with that voicing of religious phrases.
Let's say, in the eye of the battlefield I don't break anyone's God, it's everyone's own matter how he motivates himself to get out alive or to find his peace if he doesn't, but I can't - for the hell of it - take it if somebody makes his religious beliefs again a base for how other people should live like and how the look at, up or down on them. Faggots fight with the gun too once they get over the rainbow flag and understand "either you fight or you gonna get killed".

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

About gays, my theory it is done by propaganda again to divide and conquer. You see if you concentrate on gays and non-gays, immigrants and locals, religious people and atheists people will fight against each other on these grounds rather than seeing the problem of many things in society is capitalism. For example, if there is unemployment they will blame immigrants, if there is low morals- blame gays etc. And gays are really like a couple percent of population, usually, I think.

[matrixmann]

These days, as things go more and more bizarre, I don't vouch for anything and get to the same thing.
The best advise I can give to any gay person is "forget about the rainbow flag - what's attached to it, is an agenda; this has nothing to do with being gay". Maybe sometime I can put it into good words.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Oh and btw I just saw somebody reposted your story that I translated on some blog, I think they reposted repost and I didn't even know about it. It has over 9K views and 300+ comments. The funny thing that some idiots start writing that they know better because they moved to Germany 16 years ago and it is made up, like education is really free in Germany. But it is usually anti-soviet idiots and trolls. They are so obviously stupid. So I just don't pay attention to them.

[matrixmann]

Okay, didn't take notice of that...
16 fucking years ago - yeah, which year was it then? 2000. I don't know what still was the case in 2000, I only get to judge from the music I listen to and the culture, the attitude towards life, the zeitgeist and the spirit that was present then that people had a good decade in the 90s. They had a few bucks in their pockets and had financial space to move to just live their lives; since Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010 this is no more. The prosperity has been sold out to anywhere and nowhere. And it's getting worse year by year since then.
I'm a child which hasn't been born to the bourgeoisie, so I think I can judge that a bit.
If the German state by order from above gave different treatment to all people which were Russlanddeutsche - because "ethnic Germans living abroad" has always been a way of doing imperial politics by West Germany - that is something I may not know. But one shouldn't see this kind of treatment as standard procedure that is the case for all people that live here. It's already a classic saying among the regular people here in relation to the refugees coming in now "If you're a refugee from the Middle East that has thrown away his passport, you gonna be treated softly; if you're a citizen of this country, you need to help yourself with everything" - that literally is the source of why people grow angry with Merkel over that.
It's also a recognition that went through other blogs, even those I'd call idiologically "social democratic", which I'd consider as correct: Since the West doesn't have to fight the communist block anymore, the West has lost the reason to let itself down onto big bunches of social amenities.
As the block still was, it was a fight for keeping yourself up and luring people away, luring skilled workers away from the block and prevent your own people from doing turmoils or even only thinking "hey, they got it really socially comfortable there, we leave here and fucking move there!".
If they could have the same at home what they could get there, this was a problem solved and the migration flow only was a one-way-road - just right up into the West.
Today, they don't have to fight anymore to please their own people to keep them where they are - they can openly let you know that you're a slave, which place do you have to run? There is no place anymore to receive a better treatment in general.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I thought, it must be people who just moved into some community or just simply trolls. Although I have to tell you other people tried to prove them wrong. i was trying to register there and say that maybe they don't understand that you are an authentic German, born in Germany and not some immigrant but something happened to their system it never sent me an activation email so I couldn't register. But don't worry, majority of people understand that tall these "experts' are just idiots.

[matrixmann]

*Laughs* You know what I just thought of? "People smuggler always tell you that you get everything for free - they want customers, respectively: their money", but I really don't want to make accusations towards anyone.
But even though, it gives me thinking how that is with the refugees that come here that paid thousands of Dollars just to get to Western Europe. If in half-way still decent countries these myths about Germany circulate - I also once encountered that myth with free education with somebody from the other side of the big lake -, should I be to believe that it's so much different in countries were people long for that kind of wealth that Western Europe called its own for such a long time? I wouldn't guess it's any different.
But to these people, the impact of that myth is much stronger: It's like their last resort to look up to, like their salvation. When you take this myth away from them it's like taking all hope away from them that life could get any better than they know it.
And that is a reason for why they don't believe it until they sit in an overcrowded refugee shelter where food is even a little scarce, where they get told they first need a permit to work to be able to get hired officially at all, where they face long queues and waiting time in bureaucracy matters, and where they get rid of their savings because the state says "you pay for your board and lodging first before anything like everyone else of our own poor people that gathered financial richnesses".
That also would explain everything in willfully failed adaption to the customs and regulations over here and claims like prayer rooms even in ground schools. - They're coming here to experience salvation, they don't want to give up the way they lived before, they want to continue living like that only in Central Europe - with that wealth ensuring them a good life.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I will try to post a comment there. So far did not have any luck.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I posted some comments there but they are not showing. I think I will post a few really stupid comment on my blog. I will tell you what they are about: one about that someones' friends' daughter went there and college education was all free and he just said I know it and it is the fact that education is free. And everyone is supposed to believe because he said it. And second idiot said that Marx said that capitalism will just turn into socialism and in Germany you already have socialism. I bet you didn't suspect that. And third is that people are saying I know better because I lived in Bavaria for 17 years.

I am not quite sure yet if I am going to post them but I might because it is so funny how stupid these people are.

[matrixmann]

"A distant relative of mine said..." - oh yeah, doesn't sound like I could know how serious that is...

Germany and socialism - well, yeah, depends on which German state you talk about at all... There once were two Germanys. Forgot?

Living for 17 years in Bavaria - Bavaria is even one of the strictest in education, your child doesn't even get from elementary school to Gymnasium if you only want it, it needs to have the grades for it. So I don't know which part of Bavaria that should be - maybe an enclave of another state or a territory having declared their own state? Or, another thought: Sudeten German territory and actually you're in Czechia?

I think I said my opinion. It sounds to me like somebody wants to catch rats, and who knows what reason for.
And from the position of each Eastern European, it might look like education is free here, but for the people which were born here and they weren't born to a rich family, the circumstances have become scarce.
Say, here a Pole also doesn't need to have rich parents to go studying, but even though, it's not like you don't need no money while studying - and it's not like you only have comfortable circumstances to study. The opposite is the case: It's already natural selection because you sometimes have like a thousand people for a course of 90-100 people. There's always someone waiting in your back who wants the seat also.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

You know, I though you were way too serious but that thing you said about Bavaria is really funny. Well out of 12 000 maybe at least half are not trolls or morons so you did your job.

[matrixmann]

Well, sometimes you even need to put the question what kind of "Bavaria" one is talking about... Them over here with their leagues of displaced people they still keep alive (the German displaced people from after WWII!) - never trust them if they don't got anything up in their sleeves.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I need to remember that joke about different Bavarias.