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November 18, 2007 at 13:23:48

Enclosure, Capitalism & The "Kiss My Ass" Farm

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It is this exactly this dismal situation we see today, with capital controlling virtually all our institutions – government, media, education, economy, trade relations, etc. As a result, the "economy" heads toward the upper reaches of dismal disparity and predation. No economy so controlled by capital, by a minority of empoyers and capitalists, as opposed to the vast majority of wage earners can ever lead to social peace, justice, and balanced economy and environment. As history reveals, factor imbalance does not last forever.

As a result of the largely enlosure-driven disparties of wealth, power and freedom, the ruling elites sitting atop their enclosure-driven gains must become ever more paranoid and concerned with holding onto power. They, of all people, understand the inequities, the raw exploitation and so fear most of all – economic democracy.

Indeed, so many around the world who have fought for economic democracy and land reform – in order to offset the results of historic enclosures and imperialism – have been murdered, imprisoned, and driven from the state house. The private armies, the mercenaries of the rich have often seen to it.

However, these are not strategies that can last, as eventually, the majority can overcome ruling elites either by honest democracy and valid elections or simply by ousting and killing the rich. The internet gives us hope today that we can eventually re-order society peacefully and escape the confines of gross factor imbalance and neo-slavery... assuming, of course, honest election processes.

Due to ongoing overpopulation resulting from centuries of "religious" dogma, the chances for the majority to ever have a viable plot of land serving as a respite from the free market are not only ever diminishing but, worse, we now also face a future of wars over resources - as a direct result of not achieving a population balance. For this reason, and given the un-likelihood of restoring prior conditions of widespread natural freedom, it is essential that we begin to achieve a societal balance of power between capital and labor – otherwise, history dictates the denouement is not good.

Only by stemming the predation of capital or labor against and over the other factor can we achieve any lasting peace and prosperity. We have seen the mistakes of communism and labor’s revenge at one extreme. Today, we are now forced to witness the fascism of capital’s power and predation as the world turns into a ruling elite-driven gulag driven by the appointed and not the fairly elected.

In any case, the price of factor imbalance is extreme and it is time we right the scales of justice and give birth to a true free marketplace.

Kent Welton,

EnclosureUSA.com

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Avid reader, jazz musician, philosopher, chef, stone mason, carpenter, writer, painter, poet,humanist, teacher, holistic ethicist who believes consciousness and love pervade the universe, except among self-obsessed humans. I perceive the philosophical unified field to be consciousness and joy. The entire universe is composed of waves, which we surf by understanding.
martinweissAvid reader, jazz musician, philosopher, chef, stone mason, carpenter, writer, painter, poet,humanist, teacher, holistic ethicist who believes consciousness and love pervade the universe, except among self-obsessed humans. I perceive the philosophical unified field to be consciousness and joy. The entire universe is composed of waves, which we surf by understanding.

economic freedom

Not only is it financially difficult for the wage earner to become a landowner, but the corporate interests have degraded the ability of the land to enable survival without their support. The fish contain heavy metals, the water holds pig excrement. Excepting ungulates like deer, the game is sparse. One can no longer even legally harvest enough deer to survive. Living off the land , even given the land, is difficult if not impossible.

But the main problem is old as the ages:

Haggai 1:6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

by martinweiss (19 articles, 4 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 342 comments) on Monday, November 19, 2007 at 12:48:44 AM

Wanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black AmericaUrban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman Contributing editor: (works in progress)Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency Screaming Doors (novel) Screaming Doors
M. DavisWanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black AmericaUrban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman Contributing editor: (works in progress)Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency Screaming Doors (novel) Screaming Doors

Micromanaging land resources

Big farmers, corporate farming is driving small family farmers off the land at a ferocious rate, further concentrating our food supply into the not so merciful hands of mega-corporations who control the entire industry vertically, from farm chemicals to farm land, to food processing and distribution. This process includes the destruction of land, soil and water resources through the massive application of farm chemicals and the resulting run off of chemicals and mega-farm animal excrement.

Soil is NOT to be taken for granted: it takes 600 years to make an inch of topsoil. Not only are we overprocesing our farm land, we are destroying soil, contaminating water supplies and dangerously concentrating food supply production into the hands of a few global mega-corporations.

If ya think they control your ass with oil and gasoline, just wait till they completely grab the utility companies, waterways and farms.

by M. Davis (43 articles, 2 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 152 comments) on Monday, November 19, 2007 at 10:36:07 AM

The rise of the urban farm

According to some statistics that I have come across: in the next 50 years, as much as 40% of the world's food will come from urban gardens. The Japanese have a prototype urban garden skyscraper model that is quite interesting. There are urban gardens across the nation, but one of the problems, insofar as inner city gardens is concerned is the contaminatin of older neighborhoods with heavy metals and lead. A neighborhood garden in Kentucky was shut down this year because of lead contaminated soil.

The possiblity of mitigating food costs with urban gardening is there, but their are costs to be paid in terms of finding suitable soil, uncontaminated soils for urban gardens.

by M. Davis (43 articles, 2 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 152 comments) on Monday, November 19, 2007 at 10:40:52 AM