CAPITALISM
- A NEW MODEL -
KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM
by Darrell UdelhovenThe Real Political Issues are the Issues that the Corporate Media Refuse to Cover that the Major Candidates for Political Office Ignore
Publisher of the Series- The Real Political Issues and People Empowerment ©1997-2006
Is a New Model of Democratic Capitalism Open for Discussion?
Capitalism can function within a variety of models. It is my experience that corporations, not the citizens, have been the major developer's of the existing flawed model. We should work to develop the best possible model of democratic capitalism to meet the economic opportunity needs of the entire global human community.We are not talking about socialism, communism, or collectivism; we are talking about the development of a greatly improved model of capitalism appropriately called democratic capitalism. We need the direct input of the people so they can be the maker's of national and global economic policies.
Man invented capitalism, not God. Some people think God invented this particular model of capitalism, so they have proclaimed it to be sacred.
What we must have is "a truly moral, --character principled model of capitalism" that will meet the economic opportunity needs of the common homeland citizenry within all countries and economic communities. What could be more important than improving the economic life chances of the vast majority of 5½ billion human beings? I know of nothing that more directly affects the livelihood of every living human being than, "the moral character" of global and national economic systems and all the policies and practices to which the entire economy must adhere to! The existing model of capitalism could be easily converted from an immoral win/lose to a moral mutual win/win economic human relationship equation.
It is Time to Dissect the Existing Model of Corporate based Capitalism
The present model of capitalism and global economic policy is merely accelerating the massive shift of economic opportunity, resources and wealth to the existing corporate giants of power. Do you like the existing dictatorship of money and organizational tyranny. Far better models of capitalism await in-depth discussion, debate and, ultimate development. Is it possible for us to put the feet of the existing corporate capitalist system model to a genuine test of its mantel or, have we been propagandized by the corporate media to the point of no return?We have been media bombarded all of our lives to believe the existing model is inscribed in stone. However, anyone objectively studying the present capitalism model which results in a zero/sum, a few big winners and a majority of economic opportunity losers, will conclude it is inadequate to meet the economic opportunity needs of billions of human beings. There are so many things wrong with the existing model of capitalism that I will not attempt to cover all of them here.
Would you like to see a Mutual Win/Win democracy based Capitalism Model?
The new model will still be capitalism, but it will be a model of capitalism antithetical to the existing model and vastly superior in the mutual benefits that it will deliver to all the human beings that work within it. The present model of capitalism is not merely an economic system: it is a political, economic, and social system run and controlled by the Governing powers of the Corporate State. The common citizenry has very little input into the formulation of national and global policies. Global corporations continue to spawn new governing organizations that place all of the governing control in the hands of transnational corporations. They promulgate and enforce the new policies; policies that invade and violate the sovereignty of countries. If you want a republic where the electorate determines your economic rights instead of corporations you better get proactive starting now.
How about a Capitalism Model that would balance all the homeland economic opportunity needs against that of the Transnational Corporate State?
In the present model of global capitalism Transnational corporations have tremendous advantages over over the homeland economies of countries because, they are advantageously positioned to exploit the noncompetitive production cost and regulatory cost differentials between countries. These gigantic differentials do not constitute a mere "comparative advantage," as is argued by advocates of unregulated laissez faire trade and investment. Rather, non regulation provides an environment for the unjust immoral exploitation of the unorganized powerless masses and promotes a new form of human slavery.These global policies, along with homeland monetary policies of raising interest rates to slow economic expansion with the idea of keeping wages low; because, according to the Federal Reserve Board, (only) an increase in wages and employee purchasing power is inflationary. Tightening the money supply which raises interest rates and reduces lending to supply side competitors which automatically increases the costs of the delivery of nearly every product and service -- is promoted as a controller of inflation. Of course, both reason and experience prove the error of such a biased and convoluted lack of sound reasoning.
What would happen if we had laissez faire free market sports? Would the corporate owners of the professional teams be for it? Would the paying consumer fans and television advertisers and audiences go for it? Would the players be for it? How big would their salaries be? What would happen to school sports?
We all realize that it would be a noncompetitive horrible economic failure! Well, my good friends that is the graphic display of no rules, no regulations, no holds barred, laissez faire free market economics! From the little leagues to the professional major leagues, where would we be without the regulatory leveling of the playing fields at all levels in competitive sports?
Righteous and just economic policies will save an untold number of lives while facilitating their opportunities toward achieving prosperity. Most of the wars in history have been the result of bad economic policy relationship equations. The use of military weaponry in wars merely multiplies hatred division and more of the same mutual destruction of human life! We better all wake up, hundreds of millions of lives are at stake! This is no exaggeration!Therefore, it is time to develop participative and distributive economic opportunity justice policies. These policies will be coupled with worldwide incentivized renewable energy requirements which will be used to recycle scarce metals and other materials so the global economy can expand without polluting our planet.
DEFINING ECONOMIC JUSTICE 08/21/00
My Real Political Issues & People Empowerment Pages
My People Empowerment Pages
New Millennium Economics
Empowerment Communications
Date of Last Modification: 02/21/06