Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Robert Mugabe

No sooner said than done.
I can't say the wisdom of nationalizing all Western interests; but you are showing you know to
make ready for the slavish greed the West employs in order to devalue other people's labor,
turning it into their own highly valued wealth.
I know how much I want for my labor.
I know how much of my labor I want translated into your wealth.
In my country, my knowing how much I value my own labor is often called Communism.
To let someone else tell me how valuable my labor is is called Democracy.
You, Mr. Mugabe, are not praised for open, democratic, working public policy.
However, you are absolutely right to make some sort of move toward not letting foreigners tell you
the value they place on your countrymen's labor. So what if greedy foreigners call you names.
Don't believe the hype which says joy comes from being compromised by foreign exploitation.
Don't get caught up in the "communist" rhetoric.
Communism is the extreme, not the rational middle between Socialism and Democracy.
We in the west don't have a name or even a rational for policies which should fit in a normative
mid-point between Communism and the capitalism of  Democracy.
If you can avoid the traps which ensared The Last King of Scotland, maybe you can develop the
languages and economies of such a mid-point.

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