The Need to Settle Scores with Abuse of Power and PrivilegeThe activity of Jean Chrétien could be described as criminal abuse of power and his position as a former Prime Minister. The problem is not merely one of Chrétien's bad behaviour. The problem is structural in that it derives from the imperialist system itself. The private segmentation of the economy into competing parts and their self-serving motive and control, and the forms that exist for taking decisions both in the economy and politically are anachronistic. They do not reflect the reality of the interrelated economy that demands cooperation for mutual benefit. They do not reflect how people live, produce and relate to one another in the twenty-first century. The aim of the economy and the forms of politics are not what they should be in modern Canada where people must have the power to decide those matters that affect their lives, society and nature in a manner that serves the general interest. The aim of the economy is private profit while everything about the economy is public and social. The economy is public and social as it affects not just those directly involved but entire populations, their societies and the relations between humans and humans and humans and nature. Major decisions cannot be based on narrow private considerations. The technique required to produce and distribute social product around the world is so complex and interrelated that every decision as a matter of course must take the aim and who it serves into consideration.
All major decisions in the economy and politics must be public and social. These secret shenanigans of a former Prime Minister should be considered criminal. Positions of influence based on private wealth and privilege must be abolished. The actions as described in the emails and comments of the people involved in this conspiracy to import and bury radioactive waste reveal a ruling elite that are incapable of even discerning right from wrong, autocracy from democracy, science from self-serving obscurantism, and principles from opportunism. They expose the liberal democratic institutions and thinking as in a state of decay and corruption that must be swept away with the new.
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decision-making process which serves the aim of squeezing maximum
private profit out of socialized conditions cannot continue. The
practice collides with the reality such as the production of nuclear
energy without considering and working through what to do with nuclear
waste and where to situate nuclear plants. The aim and forms of
control of the economy must be modernized so that all features of
production and distribution are taken into account based on what serves
the people, society and Mother Earth and affirm the right of the people
to set the direction of the economy themselves.