Friday, February 19, 2010

American Free Trade

We may be close to the end of the , "Capitalistic Romanticism" period in American foreign policy. It has become clear, where the work goes so do the profits.Then the jobs follow. Adam Smith said,"The Capital would be used to further ventures of what it was employed in".
Chinnese factories is what it was used in. Now it builds Chinas roads feeds their army pays their taxes and keeps our political and economic system fed with, cheap goods and political donations, and  our foreign affairs policy is partly conducted thru the commerce department. The huge profits they get from our former industrys. They now use against us and our government helps them.
This love for the notion of the, free enterprise system being romantic, and awe inspiring has became a policy for both the Europeans and Americans.
The foreign affairs policys that were used are still perpetuating the same, dreamy romantic idea ," that you can court a nation and seduce them with capitalism.
Causing them to become free and adopt democratic institutions".
This idea with out some basis for backing those institutions and enabeling the people of these countrys to adopt our style of citizen rule will fail.
We are not transplanting the American free enterprise system. Our foreign policy of
free trade is unfairly giving the competitive edge to the communist system because it is closed by its very nature. Markets are controlled and used to benefit the leadership
within the communist system and then to enforce its policys in its country to further the Disemination of Communisim against Democracy . The policys would not extend to profits and the use of enterprise to further the individualized choice.
Choice is expressly denied in the ,Communist system. Individual capitalistic practices
of freedom to start a business, free use of information, individual choice in the system, Controlling Rescources in an industry would all be issues for the state not the individual.Enterprise would be conducted by the party officials and controlled at the local level. Their would be no entrepnaureial spirit suddenly spring to life and take hold of the people.
The reality they live under the rule of communal governance would be frowned on by the very people it was designed to help they would not give up certantiy in there system for a new one that benefited a few lucky enough in its initial stages to participate and thrive. The american policy of enticing them with freedom thru greed and choice is flawed. Romanticism in capitalism as a foreign affairs policy was bound to happen. Given the immense success of our ability to use it in democratic institutions all over the world.The free trade policy by the united states has done more to harm our standing in the world losing industry controll, job lose  economic turmoil in the world it simply cannot work. The economic strength of america is tied to its ability to control and protect its commerce and lead the world economicaly and militarily. The practice is irresponsible it is the policy of appeasement . Without assurances from us that the core values of freedom of choice and the need to challenge assertions in the market and unfair and unjust practices in the capitalist system with the rule of law and of enforcing contracts, we can never truly have fair trade.Thus the worlds view , and uncertainty of America as the Leader of the free world is now challenged. The Democratic nations of the world cant simply stop being for freedom and the rule of law their commerce is one and the same. Obsurdity's arise when you try to seperate or piece out the capital markets from the free societys and transfer them to totalitarian systems.We would not transfer military secrets or control of our military to these systems or governments. The united states has elevated the communist system to be equal with democracy thru sharing capitalism and letting them clearly manipulate or system of rule of law with their system of control. When you enter the closed communist system you give up control. Hence the arguement that exporting capitalism to other countrys and systems of government as a foreign affairs tool to free people is flawed.
History is full of the dreamy notions of romance and the resulting fate of the befallen victims of ill fated love.
American Capitalism-beautiful and inspiring it has become. Transformed thru idealism to transcend a mere system of conducting commerce and codifying its means. To courting the relationship of the ideas Between Marx and Plato and Democracy and Communisim.

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