It should be noted that the moneylender�s promises to pay circulated from hand to hand in trade as a commodity.

Acceptance of the principle that money is a commodity has ever since made it impossible to establish a scientific relationship between the true monetary requirements of the economy and the availability of money.

Since money is regarded as a commodity, its proprietors undertake constantly to enhance its value. This is achieved by causing demand for it to be high, which in turn is achieved by keeping it in short supply.

Indeed, throughout the entire evolution of the money system - which financiers have essentially been able to guide to suit their own ends maintaining a chronic shortage of financial credit has been the key to ensuring the financiers� dominant position in the economy. (Author unknown)

�from Prosperity, March 2001

The Ground of Cultural Genocide:

The Primitive Mind-Set of Global Market Ideology

John McMurtry

�The distemper fuelling the demonstrators in Quebec City had nothing to do with their fear of free trade, and everything to do with their dread of cultural genocide.��Peter C. Newman, Maclean�s, April 30.

The lock-step of the global corporate program is not easily understood by those who think in terms of human values. Its fixed mind-set that knows itself as the final solution of how peoples everywhere must live is inhuman in conception. Its occupation of public consciousness continues to succeed by what is not seen a covert structure of value inversion that is not recognized even by opponents.

On the surface, preference for �the global free market� is dinned into the heads of publics by slogans saturating the corporate media around the clock, and by clubbings, teargas and rubber bullets if the slogans don�t imprint. But underneath the instituted violence and propaganda, a primitive syntax of value equations is always at work preparing the public mind for acquiescence. Freedom is equated with �the free market,� and �globalization� is, in turn, equated with transnational corporate rights to all of the world�s resources. Thus the question is permanently made to arise against the opposition to this global occupation: How could any sane person not believe in the self-evident principles of freedom and global interconnection? Since the slogans trail in their wake the regulating principles of cultural genocide as their system of meaning, this way of seeing establishes the ideological confusion which is required to mask the invasion so that societies do not know what is happening to them.

Those who oppose �free trade� and, thus, the �free market,� are by the same mind-set inversion perceived as opposed to human freedom and cross-cultural exchange. The only issue for those governed by this mindset is how to ensure peaceful acceptance of this �freedom� across human borders. This is the global marketeers� autistic circle, and nothing breaks into its final certitude as long as it is acquiesced in. Conformity to the mind-set is all the while perfected by media and academic idealization, whose preconscious function is to reproduce this group-mind circle while blinkering out all facts which expose its attacks on evolved social infrastructures, self-determining polities and planetary ecosystems.

The Basic Equations

Freedom = the Free Market is the grounding non-sequitur equation of this ruling doctrine and the system it legitimizes. The further equivalence of the free market to the global corporate system is, in turn, just as unthinkingly assumed. What is not seen in these non-sequitur transitions is that the free market is, in fact, the opposite of the global corporate system. For the free market in principle rules out the domination of supply by corporate oligopolies and intra-firm international trade which now rule trade and investment across the world. Just as foundationally, a free market rules out the domination of demand by oligopolist firms� pervasive advertising, domination of public regulators by political funding and media control, and semi-monopoly of public contract bids. Yet these contradictions between the ruling doctrine and the structure of reality are contradictions that the regulating mindset cannot discern.

The grounding equation of the system thus becomes extended to mean an extraordinary and absurd master assumption: Freedom = the Free Market = the Global Corporate System. Conversely, it follows from this primitive regulating equation that those who oppose the global corporate system must also oppose the free market and are, thus, the Enemy to human freedom itself. Consequently, the negative corollary of the grounding equation of the doctrine be comes Opponents of the Global Corporate System� = Opponents of the Free Market = Opponents of Freedom. We have seen the genocidal terror for dissenting societies which this primitive mind-set has entailed over much of the last century. The world�s indigenous and subsistence farming peoples have been suffering it for over 500 years.