Socialists, Central Banks & Credit Is Not Capital

Jon Alternative Media, Blogosphere, Civil Unrest, Economy, Education, Fiscal Policies, Socialism

Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners,
It may just be fitting that it is May Day weekend, the old remembrance of the once ‘great’ destructive force of international communism. Of course, it still resonates largely because its proponents view it from the standpoint of actual purity. Stalin, you see, never really practiced it; as such it has supposedly never really been tried. Repeating that lie long enough has left generations susceptible to the same cowing interpretations.
Normally, these fascinations with Marx and Marxism are left to the ivory towers of academia, who have apparently taken heart to the KGB’s ‘liberation ideology’ and brought it to America’s college youth. I don’t mean for this to be such a political discussion, but it is somewhat unavoidable. After all, one of the most trending topics on Twitter earlier this week, just in time for May Day itself, was #ResistCapitalism.
The open spaces for this backlash are provided neatly by the recovery that doesn’t exist outside of various DSGE and GARCH models central banks employ to tell us how well they have done. Today’s youth are being inundated with Marxism that once appeared ridiculous in obviousness, but now contains, seemingly, some righteous prescription. This is not just ‘inequality’ but it isn’t apart from it either, as stock bubbles and the very real lack of wage opportunity sharpen this great sense of divide.
From the perspective of anyone who appreciates actual freedom and free markets, there is an easy answer to the problem – that all these neo-socialists that don’t appreciated the irony of being ‘afforded’ the opportunity to resist and renounce capitalism by all its very successful fruits. They are confused over the nature of capitalism itself, as maybe should not be so unappreciated or unexpected since it has been buried for some decades now. The smartphone technology and the internet fabric that draws it all together, the very means with which the Marxists gather each other for more comforting online serenades about how much better the world would be under more ‘equal’ terms, is actually more ancient. The capitalism revolution of the information age was birthed and came of age long before Alan Greenspan started directing key economic variables from his computer.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 05/03/2015.