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Manifest Democracy

A Counter-Declaration to the Project for a New American Century

It has been half a millennium since Europeans unleashed the ruthless leviathan of rational capitalism upon the world at large. No living species has not, by now, been drawn ineluctably into its jaws. The most powerful human institutions the world has ever known all stand ready at arms to defend the rights of capitalist development against any and all conceivable opposition, the United States Government and its Armageddion military might, the CIA, Great Britain, IMF, the United Nations, WTO, the World Bank.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, the specter of Communism has, we are told, been exorcised. China is communist in name only and day by day grows more brutally capitalist in fact, leaving Cuba as its last lonely stronghold. Even here the US has a foothold colony at Guantanamo Bay, which has become the United States' first bold experiment in offshore penal colonies, a fate worse than death reserved for the new enemies of the capitalist free market.

Demonized as "terrorism" by the capitalist status quo hell-bent on unfettered expansion, does this new enemy have a name that is not a stigmatizing label from its opposition?

It does. That name is democracy.

Democracy is the last social system, with real-life processes tried and tested in the fires of human experience, which capitalism itself acknowledges as a legitimate power. It is for this reason that capitalism has been desperate to conflate and confuse democracy with itself, to subjugate its moral and historical force to the private ends of capitalist profit.

Thus capitalism is now entrenching its forces on the frontlines against democracy, and will stop at nothing until all its hard-won achievements have been dismantled, and all its manifestations are either eliminated, suppressed, or neutralized by hollow substitutes.

At this dire historical crisis, therefore, it is incumbent upon all champions and supporters of democracy to extricate it, clearly and definitively, from the obfuscating and appropriating rhetoric of the capitalists who are quickly alienating the democratic spirit from the world's people.

At this dark and late hour the people of the world must join together to make manifest democracy.

Stay tuned. . .