It's not 'left vs right' -- it's monopolists vs the rest of us

This extremely important message needs to become widely heard -- it may already be too late.

Monopoly.

Monopoly.

Monopoly.

And one more time for the folks in the back —

Monopoly.

That is the grave threat of our time. It’s not left versus right. It’s monopolists versus the rest of us.

I am reminded of this constantly, and this morning my reminder came from this great interview Michael Shermer did with Ashley Rindsberg, whose book, The Gray Lady Winked, I have written about before.

As some or all of you may be aware, The New York Times failed to report on Stalin’s deliberate famine in the Ukraine, which killed millions. At 29 minutes into this interview, Ashley explains why the paper’s reporter, Walter Duranty, managed to overlook such a huge story. It wasn’t that he was not aware. It was that the paper succumbed to pressure from business interests back home who wanted the US government to recognise the USSR. So Duranty, at the behest of his bosses, ignored the famine story. And he went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for his work in the USSR — a powerful lesson that lies pay, and truth is expensive.

A year ago, capitalist support for communism would have surprised me. But it’s the main focus of Anthony Sutton’s much-overlooked The Wall Street Trilogy, published in the mid-1970’s. How the forces of American big business have had their sights on total global control — creating captive markets out of the citizenry — since at least the late 19th century; and for this reason they saw totalitarianism as a tool. Even as their working class countrymen were slaughtered fighting against it. (For another example of the monopolistic tendencies that are being hidden by the COVID distraction, check out these allegations that Israel quashed the development of its own vaccine in favour of Pfizer, turning the entire nation into willing participants of mass medical experimentation for the benefit of the pharmaceutical giant.)

What was set in motion by the Rockefellers, the Carnegies and the Morgans in the early years of the 20th century is now being carried out by Big Tech and Big Pharma’s current stranglehold on the public. Is this a coincidence? Maybe.

Woke capital is now a frequent topic of conversation, including this very interesting Triggernometry episode with Vivek Ramaswamy.

But it’s not as new as it seems. I will leave you with this passage from Sutton’s book, which I highly recommend. When you read it keep in mind it was written in 1974. (Emphasis in bold type added by me.)

“Bolsheviks and bankers have then this significant common ground — internationalism. Revolution and international finance are not at all inconsistent if the result of revolution is to establish more centralised authority. International finance prefers to deal with central governments. The last thing the banking community wants is laissez-faire economy and decentralised power because these would disperse power.

This, therefore, is an explanation that fits the evidence. This handful of bankers and promoters was not Bolshevik, or Communist, or socialist, or Democrat, or even American. Above all else these men wanted markets, preferably captive international markets — and a monopoly of the captive world market as the ultimate goal. They wanted markets that could be exploited monopolistically without fear of competition from Russians, Germans, or anyone else — including American businessmen outside the charmed circle. This group was apolitical and amoral. In 1917 it had a single-minded objective — a captive market in Russia, all presented under, and intellectually protected by, the shelter of a league to enforce the peace.

Wall Street did achieve its goal. American firms controlled by this syndicate were later to go on and build the Soviet Union, and today are well on their way to bringing the Soviet military-industrial complex into the age of the computer.

Today the objective is alive and well. John D Rockefeller expounds it in his book, The Second American Revolution — which sports a five-pointed star on the title page. The book contains a naked plea for humanism, that is, a plea that our first priority is to work for others. In other words, a plea for collectivism. Human is collectivism. It is notable that the Rockefellers, who have promoted this humanistic idea for a century, have not turned their OWN property over to others…Presumably it is implicit in their recommendation that we all work for the Rockefellers. Rockefeller’s book promotes collectivism under the guises of ‘cautious conservatism’ and ‘the public good.’ It is in effect a plea for the continuation of the earlier Morgan-Rockefeller support of collectivist enterprise and mass subversion of individual rights.

In brief, the public good as been, and is today, used a device and an excuse for self-aggrandisement by an elitist circle that pleads for world peace and human decency. But so long as the reader looks at world history in terms of an inexorable Marxian conflict between capitalism and communism, the objectives of such an alliance between international finance and international revolution remain elusive. So will the ludicrousness of promotion of the public good by plunderers. If these alliances still elude the reader, then he should ponder the obvious fact that these same international interests and promoters are always willing to determine what other people should do, but are signally unwilling to be first in line to give up their own wealth and power. Their mouths are open, their pockets are closed.

This technique, used by the monopolists to gouge society, was set forth in the early twentieth century by Frederick C. Howe in The Confessions of a Monopolist. First, says Howe, politics is a necessary part of business. To control industries it is necessary to control Congress and the regulators and thus make society go to work for you, the monopolist. So, according to Howe, the two principles of a successful monopolist are, “First, let society work for you; and second, make a business out of politics.” These, wrote Howe, are the basic “rules of big business.”

Personally, I feel that if these long-hidden agendas became widely known then we might stand a chance against this frightening and long-planned encroachment on our sovereign human rights. The fight is not against your neighbour, as deluded as they may be. It’s against the monopoly.