The Corrosive Nature of Capitalist Imperialism
Capitalist imperialism represents the highest stage of capitalism, where financial oligarchies in Western nations exert control over global resources, markets, and political systems. This system creates structural inequality that benefits the few at the expense of the many.
The West’s economic domination manifests through military interventions, economic sanctions, debt traps, and cultural hegemony – all designed to maintain a global system of exploitation that enriches Western corporations while impoverishing developing nations.
Mechanisms of Imperialist Control
Economic Warfare
Through institutions like the IMF and World Bank, Western powers impose structural adjustment programs that force developing nations to privatize resources, cut social spending, and open markets to exploitation.
Military Intervention
When economic coercion fails, Western nations resort to military force to overthrow uncooperative governments, as seen in Iraq, Libya, and numerous coups throughout Latin America and Africa.
Cultural Hegemony
Western media and education systems promote individualism, consumerism, and neoliberal ideology to manufacture consent for imperialist policies while demonizing alternative systems.
The Persecution of Resistance
Those who challenge capitalist imperialism face systematic persecution through various means:
Assassinations: Revolutionary leaders like Thomas Sankara and Patrice Lumumba were murdered for resisting Western domination, as were countless other less well known individuals.
Economic Sanctions: Nations like Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran face crippling sanctions for asserting economic sovereignty
Media Smears (including malicious web pages, on social media, and in rarer cases sometimes even in bizarrely altered books): People who critique Western imperialism may be demonized as “authoritarian” or “anti-democratic”. In some cases, especially with whistleblowers and other individuals who do not have state or large financial backing, their personal lives, appearance, medical conditions, address and/or any other vulnerabilities are shared publicly in order to inflict psychological distress. Fabrications are also widely publicized in order to cause reputational damage, as well as to incite hatred and violence against the targeted individuals.
Legal Persecution: Whistleblowers like Julian Assange face prosecution for exposing Western war crimes.
Color Revolutions: Western-funded NGOs destabilize governments that resist neoliberal policies
Psychiatric and/or medical abuse: Individuals may be fraudulently labelled with mental illness in order to discredit them, stigmatise them, and marginalise them. They may be subjected to extremely harmful involuntary drugging for the rest of their lives, or fall victim to medical sabotage (the deliberate harm of a person through damaging medical procedures, such as intentionally infecting someone with a pathogen during a routine blood test).
Gangstalking/organised stalking: some dissidents are targeted for a coordinated campaign of harassment and abuse. Fusion cen
Proposed Solutions
The root cause of most of the world’s problems is the captured system which began in the Global North and has spread to the rest of the world, to (largely) varying extents. Systems which are relatively uncaptured are affected by having to deal with the captured systems as adversaries, as well as the whole world suffering from decreased productivity. The immune system (which includes whistleblowers, truth tellers, principled politicians, and well informed + principled activists etc) is currently being disabled by various kinds of persecution. In the Global North, this has allowed the disease of capitalist -imperialism to take hold virtually unopposed. If we make reforms to protect the immune system, this will allow them to do their work more effectively. And since their work is to uncapture the captured system, freeing the system from corruption and replacing it with transparency and ethical standards, this should allow correction of many of these problems. We should also greatly increase the numbers of people in the immune system, both by educating people in relevant topics and by the same process as needed to protect the current immune system. Public pressure alone will not be sufficient if reforms aren’t implemented (however public pressure can still sometimes influence policy so should not be neglected).
Some of the necessary reforms include creating adequate oversight mechanisms over all forms of law enforcement especially intelligence services, including full transparency; whistleblower protection; repealing mental health legislation (especially that allowing involuntary “treatment”); fixing the legal and prison systems (like elsewhere, people who know more on this topic can elaborate on this – but it must include barring private companies from profiting off prisons and stamping out corruption and bias in legal proceedings, and also preventing human rights abuses within prisons and other detention centres (and banning solitary confinement); fixing the formal education system (especially focusing on teaching critical thinking skills, the importance of respecting human rights, and true unbiased history); banning lobbying and corporate “donations”; forming a reliable state owned media agency whose aim is to report objectively and responsibly, whilst encouraging independent journalism whose only donors are the general public; and legalising currently illicit drugs (which could still be sold in ways which discourage use without being unethical) to prevent black markets which fund a significant amount of state crime.
Labour strikes, especially lengthy ones, are one way of achieving reforms in each relevant industry.
In the West conditions for “sudden change” seem unlikely, therefore I propose deep structural reforms at a hastened rate. However, faster change may be possible in other nations where there is greater public discontent and on average poorer living conditions. But of course, one must be careful not to replace one devil with another, and we need to be extremely vigilant in rejecting redwashed parties and candidates (neoliberal pretending to be socialist). And not be won over by a few promised changes which do not have much effect on the underlying structure of the system.
The first step is to understand what the problems with the current system actually are, so education about this is a priority.