SHOULD THEY STAY…..SHOULD THEY GO? (U.S AND CAPITALISM)

It happened in the past that the US desired that all the world should be capitalist economies: indeed, democracy was the recommended system Governments were to practice in the absence of a more appealing option. Communism, she thought, was an evil empire to be demolished at all cost.

What with the pavement of ‘white roads’ with human bones due to the excessive abundance of that resource as a result of the human carnage that accompanied daily administration of social justice within that system, America in her somewhat balanced outlook of legal administration could dimly perceive of any good arising from the quagmire.

The USSR believed in and practiced communism as an antidote to the Western indulgence of materialism. The failing in her eyes was the bane of ancient empires, which when imported into private lives interprets for vanity. Vanity is simple parlance spells as wasteful abundance which was in the first place unnecessary, for which others others re held to ransom for.

Russia by building this empire of brotherhood thought to overcome man’s single root source of every vice: greed. Little had she taken into cognizance the reality of man’s non-mechanical disposition: man in all his inclinations is governed more by emotions than by reason. Feelings bear greater significance than any higher appeal of perception.

Though the man may be your convict yet he is my savior.

So also people walk about swinging their prejudices along with them. What strikes one at first instance sticks and stays.

Jack was known to ride just bikes, so him in a jeep seems quite a waste of machinery.

So those who make the best of life invest more in appearances rather than form.

Communism felt in its citadel, Russia, but was substituted in China for capitalism without any attendant demise to the smooth running of Government. Indeed, the switch over of systems was so smooth that it all appears as a win-win for China. This does not seem to have gone down well with the US. This climb from communism to capitalism would seem to align both systems as stages within a development plan that span unfathomable periods of time.

This unexpected smooth transition came as a poorly concealed bad surprise to the US who had expected a falling and rising to which they could relate.

Some events are indeed phenomenal and must be appreciated as such. Were China better off communist in a conservative market approach or is she to adjust her polity to suit Western style Governments to qualify as a capitalist. Could it then be true to adduce that capitalism cannot be approached without a resort to democracy?

What does the fall of the Berlin Wall go to prove about this truth?

It would seem a clear instance of the end justifying the means when the toll on costs is considered vis-à-vis the benefits to be derived. Feasible cost with a bent towards humane solution would favor a strand of capitalism with minimal interferences.

US… to be or not to be…that is the question.

Instead of such much ado about China’s innovative reforms and the attendant need for the world to bend backwards to accommodate her leviathan-burden, China should be applauded and the stress left to another chapter.

….lest this becomes a clear case of lamenting the dirge and not eliciting tears and singing sweet songs and not eliciting laughter…