Matters of Serious Concern for
Canadians
Canada's Integration into the U.S. Imperialist War Economy
- K.C. Adams -
Canada's integration into the U.S. imperialist
war economy
is a serious matter of concern for Canadians. The
U.S. war
economy has tentacles into every U.S. state as
well as Canada and
countless other places abroad. The war economy
encompasses
production and sales of military goods and
services to military
customers domestically and internationally and all
the fixed and
circulating value it requires to operate such as
buildings and
fuel. The war economy includes thousands of
military bases,
airports, colleges, research centres, intelligence
agencies,
testing facilities and a vast army of active duty
and reservist
military personnel and services to veterans.
 As policing has
become more militarized under Homeland
Security and other factors, police forces have
emerged as
important consumers of war materiel. A significant
aspect of the
war economy is propaganda generated in the general
culture to
promote the imperialist military and its
contribution to life and
the pushing of state-organized violence to defend
the property
and interests of the financial oligarchs and their
striving for
global hegemony in opposition to the peoples of
the world.
The U.S. war economy exists within a relation
with the aim of
the U.S.-centred financial oligarchy for worldwide
hegemony. U.S.
imperialist theft of social wealth from the
peoples of the world
and its competition with other big powers feed the
war economy
and in turn generate increased instability,
violence and war.
The war economy would shrink considerably if U.S.
overseas'
bases were closed and troops returned home. Such a
transformation
is favoured by the insistence of the people within
the U.S.,
Canada and worldwide to demand a new direction for
the economy to
meet the needs of the people and develop trade on
the basis of
mutual benefit. This requires breaking the
relation between the
domestic economy and the striving of the financial
oligarchy for
global hegemony through active military
intervention abroad
against competitors or those who refuse to submit,
the
instigation of war and threats of war, regime
change and the
organizing of military Special Operations to
capture markets,
sources of raw material, places to invest and
working people to
exploit.
A new aim for the economy is necessary that
replaces the
current anti-social aim where a small class of
rich oligarchs
conspire and compete to expropriate maximum profit
from the
social wealth that working people produce at home
and abroad.
A new pro-social aim for the economy would be in
conformity
with the modern socialized productive forces and
have fidelity to
the ensemble of human relations and what they
reveal. Working
people produce social wealth collectively. By
vesting themselves
with decision-making power, they will prohibit the
exploitation of those who produce the social
wealth, affirm
the rights of all, humanize the social and natural
environment
and ensure the country is a zone for peace.
 To prevail over the
war economy and the financial oligarchy
that profits from it means that in 2020 the
peoples everywhere
will continue to mobilize themselves to fulfill
the aims they set
for the economy and the country. By organizing
themselves
politically to change the direction of the economy
and the
political and social conditions in ways that
favour them and not
the rich oligarchs, headway is forthcoming.
The transition away from a war economy would not
be as
difficult as some suggest. The war economy
essentially consumes
already produced social wealth in exchange for war
materiel and
the human factor necessary to wage war.
Imperialist war and its
war materiel are instruments of destruction and
oppression and do
not contribute to the well-being of the people and
Mother Earth.
Much of the social wealth used in exchange to pay
for the war
economy comes from taxation, as governments are
the main organizer
and paymaster. With a pro-social aim and new
direction for the
economy, other uses can be found for that social
wealth and the
human productive force released from the war
economy. Needless to
say, the suggestions to humanize the social and
natural
environment are unlimited in their scope.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 32 - December 21, 2019
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Matters of Serious Concern for
Canadians: Canada's Integration into the U.S. Imperialist War Economy - K.C. Adams
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