Imperialism Update! (3)
Our friend, journalist, raconteur and fish-sniffer Dan Bacher, sends this timely Imperialsim update: "From clandestine sources I am disclosing a document of earth-shaking proportions, The North Star Declaration from the Popular Front for the Liberation of the North Pole.
Herewith is a brief extract from this radical document:
Imperialism and the North Pole
Having been forced out of Europe, we realized that, alone at the North Pole, we were no match for rising industry controlled by businessmen. Santa’s Village was set up as a handicraft cooperative solely for the purpose of perpetuating Santa’s plan for keeping the habit of sharing alive. In the early days we were able to carry on our good work inside the capitalist and feudalist countries. But things changed. Eventually, Santa’s reindeer and sleigh had to compete with modern fighter jets and we were blockaded. Imperialism in general, and U.S. Imperialism in particular, has a special reason for blockading our country. By blockading our country, imperialism forces us to sell the only product it will buy: our culture.
Our culture is now the product used to sell consumerism and capitalism, the exact opposite of sharing and socialism. Consumerism is a way for businessmen to make a profit. Profit-taking is a form of hoarding more than a fair share of the community’s surplus. Supposedly, hoarding brings security. But in fact hoarding is a statement of insecurity. It is a vote of no confidence in the community. Hoarding is actually the cause of insecurity!
We are being used. The capitalists only lift the blockade on Christmas. In a country as rich as the U.S., the fact that Christmas isn’t celebrated every day, but only once a year, is excellent testimony for our cause.
Herewith is a brief extract from this radical document:
Imperialism and the North Pole
Having been forced out of Europe, we realized that, alone at the North Pole, we were no match for rising industry controlled by businessmen. Santa’s Village was set up as a handicraft cooperative solely for the purpose of perpetuating Santa’s plan for keeping the habit of sharing alive. In the early days we were able to carry on our good work inside the capitalist and feudalist countries. But things changed. Eventually, Santa’s reindeer and sleigh had to compete with modern fighter jets and we were blockaded. Imperialism in general, and U.S. Imperialism in particular, has a special reason for blockading our country. By blockading our country, imperialism forces us to sell the only product it will buy: our culture.
Our culture is now the product used to sell consumerism and capitalism, the exact opposite of sharing and socialism. Consumerism is a way for businessmen to make a profit. Profit-taking is a form of hoarding more than a fair share of the community’s surplus. Supposedly, hoarding brings security. But in fact hoarding is a statement of insecurity. It is a vote of no confidence in the community. Hoarding is actually the cause of insecurity!
We are being used. The capitalists only lift the blockade on Christmas. In a country as rich as the U.S., the fact that Christmas isn’t celebrated every day, but only once a year, is excellent testimony for our cause.
posted by Richard Hansen at
12:58 PM
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