The two are interchangeable and more or less synonymous. Neither of them is particularly subject to national boundaries and such entities as countries simply provide one of many different types of power base. To me, once you accept that those two are different forms of the same force, then a lot of things become clearer.
Whilst, in an attempt to create religious tolerance, a lot of societies are these days at least nominally secular in nature, politics is in many ways itself a religion and, as such, it seeks to control people usually through fear of one sort or another. The people serve the political machine rather than the machine serving the people. To use the vernacular, as seems to happen so frequently in many walks of life, the tail is seeking to wag the dog and in politics, that is almost uniquely successful! Of course, the other thing that should be pointed out is that, in spite of what so many believe, all political machines (and religious organisations too) are corrupt to a considerable degree – and some are rotten to the core!
There are two basic financial systems in the world – capitalism and socialism and that is indeed what they really are – monetary systems – in spite of all the attached ideologies used to pretend they are something else. If you had a world socialist system, it would be totally dominant because, when not in conflict with capitalist systems, it does not need to compete, it controls the power and its elite can print and distribute the money (or goods and services) as they see fit. Equally, if capitalism were completely unrestricted world wide, then it too could control all the money and services and the wealthiest and most powerful elite would again distribute the money according to their preferences. In that case, exactly as with socialism, the rest of us are totally subservient.
Now that normal religions hold less sway in a large sector of human society, politics has replaced it as a tool to control the people and the people worship at the altar of the new all seeing omnipotent god they must obey, just as they do when a “standard” religion is the device in use.
Yet it all comes back to the fact that power and money are what everything in our world is about and they are the means by which we are all forced into servitude. As I said in an earlier post, capitalism can be made to at least partially regulate itself in the best interests of the general population, but it will always be fighting to become utterly dominant. However, a capitalist democratic system provides the best opportunity we, the people, have of wresting at least a degree of political control from the elite and using it to ameliorate the worst excesses of capitalism. Socialism in all its forms (including communism) does not permit that wresting of control and never will. Under any socialist system, the state is always fully dominant and will challenge any and all attempts to make it serve the public, in spite of all the fancy claims to the contrary – and that’s probably the principal reason why I so hate what it stands for.
But it’s still all about money – which is power – which is money – which is…
In reality there is only ONE system in the world these days…capitalism…..though a country may call itself socialist the economy functions on profit….
Well, I take your point, but capitalism and socialism promote different approaches to monetary policy. However, since (in my view) power and wealth are interchangeable, I think you are largely right.
There is certainly only one system of management and that is control of the populace by the elite (however they achieve that status) – everything else is subservient to that fact!
Interesting post.
Though I wonder if declining religious power means that influence on attitudes and beliefs is shifting to more cultural mechanisms than political ones.
Interesting thought and I think you might be right. However, in many ways that simply increases the gulf between ordinary citizens and the wealthy and political types. I suppose there always was this to a small extent, but now there is in many ways a sort of “subculture” developing that is gradually becoming almost the “mainstream” and, much as I despise some of its values (or lack of them), who can blame them when the ruling elite seem to be so far removed from the reality that affects the majority of us?
Left wing libralists. Everything is definately power, money and no people. Sly though in there approach, will anyone ever wake up to the fact that the more destruction between race, and now sex that they make money and power from destroying us people.
Hence the new bull, In best interests of the children, It is Baloney. Tell me do you really believe there interests lie in our children, i don’t think so. It is money and power.
The only true government is everyone not just some crap form of representation claiming to be for us. More like control of us. Left wing eg minorities. Thats right we as majority have never denied there rights but our as a whole are gone now. One day minorities will become aware of this. Communist left wing baloney, creating havoc in the evilist of ways, causing all to fight.
Create disharmony equals more money more resources equals more power more government. from right under our noses and i guess until you have children you will not see this. They are now using our children, this is where they messed up, revolution time. Peoples voice not any socialist, communist, left wing libralist, labourist, capitalist or any list. The only true government is equality first then referendum, which equals people.
ITS COMING SO PREPARE