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The Future of Humanity and the Cancer of Capitalism-Zionism
Korosh Erfani
Amid numerous disasters and problems on a global scale, and despite scientists' warnings about extreme climate change and its catastrophic effects, the monsters of capitalism and Zionism are beating the drum of war, denying all of humanity the chance to survive. Both of these are themselves the product of human and historical errors.
But if we are not talking about history here, and only about today's events, there is no doubt that these two ugly and terrible brothers, insisting on profiting from the business of war and sowing murder, are on the verge of waging a regional war. in the Middle East which, sooner or later, degenerates into a continental war in Asia, then into a war between the Middle East. The continent will be located between Asia, Africa and Latin America (the Southern world) on the one hand, and Europe, North America and Oceania (the Northern world) on the 'other. This is a critical and ruinous fate that, if it occurs, will end humanity, civilization, and life on Earth.
Many consider this process certain, some probable and others impossible. Which one is right? Who will be happy or disappointed?
It is not easy to answer these questions. Many factors can reinforce or make one or the other possible. But we can draw a general framework that gives us some minimal clarification.
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Let us think of the world as a living organism (the human body) and of the capitalist-Zionist mixture as a cancer in this body. A person with cancer is not necessarily doomed to death from the start of its onset. Several parameters come into play to determine its fate:
1) When to diagnose cancer: Are we at the beginning, halfway, or are we in the final phase? Each of these elements modifies the possibilities and chances of acting to save the patient. We must therefore make a precise diagnosis to determine whether our efforts are likely to succeed and adjust our hopes and optimism accordingly. Is the cancer in its early stages or is it early in its development?
2) Type of cancer: Is cancer called “benign” or “malignant”? Each carries different risks and harms. One is less dangerous, the other is quite riskier.
3) Availability of treatment: Does the cancer in question have a precedent of treatment? Do we have any cases that have been successfully cured? Through what treatment? Is the treatment for this type of cancer known, experienced and feasible?
4) General body power: Is the patient in good general physical condition? Does he have good physical strength and endurance? Does he eat a healthy diet and has he been athletic and physical? To what extent can we count on our body to fight cancer?
5) The will and spirit of the patient: The fight against cancer is hard and long. It takes a lot of efforts that require patience, discipline and resoluteness. Can we expect the patient to have such a spirit and continue to regularly carry out the recommended therapeutic work?
These are some general points that can be taken into account when treating cancer and acting on the possibility of coping with it.
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Now, without insisting on the 100% meaning of comparing physical and medical cancer to capitalism-Zionism in the body of humanity, let us look at these five indicators in today's world as a symbolic theoretical framework:
1) Timing of diagnosis: Considering the total damage caused to humanity by these two disturbing phenomena over the last two centuries, it may be reasonable to assume that this cancer is at a very advanced stage. Capitalism has severely damaged the planet's environment and climatic conditions, plundered natural resources, and established and normalized anti-human class inequalities worldwide. It has created passive, ignorant, self-destructive people and, at the same time, Zionism has brought down all the foundations of morality, humanity and legalism. It is therefore very naive to consider these two disturbing phenomena at the beginning or even in the middle of our destruction. It seems that at the same rate of damage they are causing, humanity will catch its breath by 2030 and put catastrophe on its hands.
First conclusion: the cancer of capitalism-Zionism is in its advanced phase.
2) Type of Cancer: Given the catastrophic scale of these two centuries compared to the hundreds of centuries of human history, we see that this cancer is a “malignant” type one. Capitalism is a system of mass alteration and human alienation through the worship of money and profit at the expense of exploitation, murder and destruction of nature; and Zionism, a system of racism that had been created by relying on a handful of religious and ideological nonsense that could burn millions or, if necessary, billions of people alive for their materialistic purposes. Both are manifestations of apartheid, racism, savagery, evil, wickedness, stupidity, exploitation, violence, occupation, rape and murder. For both of them, human suffering is the last thing they want to think about. For capitalism and Zionism, man is summed up in the belly and stomach, and in a word, in the words of the monster Yoav Galant, the cannibalistic Zionist minister, humanity, except for his own people, is a handful of "humanoid animals" that can be burned alive and their descendants wiped from the face of the earth.
Result of the second case: the virus of capitalism-Zionism in the body of humanity, is in its advanced phase, and of the “malignant” and deadly type.
3) Treatment available: For this malignant cancer and in its final phase, no treatment is available. Many schools of thought have had the potential to become alternatives to these two monsters, but over time, they have become exhausted by deviance, mistakes, and repeated blows from the intruders within themselves, and failed to transcend the boundaries of ideation and dream. Whether or not anything in the future could be considered a viable alternative to both of these, given that we are in the final stages of this cancer, is unlikely in practice; humanity no longer seems to have the leeway of doing so. Capitalism has taken over the minds of parallel and alternative systems and transformed them into other ridiculous replicas of itself with other waters and colors (like the ruling system of China and Russia). Zionism, by placing its fellow citizens at the head of all institutions that could have been a deterrent against its anti-human monstrosity (such as the United Nations and the governments of major countries), sees practically no obstacle to the implementation of its evil Abrahamic plan to eradicate humanity from the earth.
Result of the third case: the capitalist-Zionist virus, which is in the final phase of the malignant type, has no treatment. Capitalist-Zionist virus, which is in the final phase of the malignant type, lacks any treatment available.
4) The general power of the patient: The number of hungry people in the world has reached one billion. Hundreds of millions of people will soon be forced from their homes due to climate change or war. Hunger, lack of water, famine, epidemics and wars will bring nations to fight with each other and the situation will be much worse from now on. There is no unity between nations on a large scale, nor citizen self-organization, coordination and management from bottom to top are in perspective. The masses have been transformed into enemies by the upper class, and they stand against each other as armies under the command of the cannibalistic masters. (See the fate of the Syrian Kurds – Kobani – and their complicity with the invading American army.) Transnational and internationalist movements are weak and non-existent. Divided and isolated peoples, driven by false nationalist sentiments provoked by the ruling class (Trump in the United States and Modi in India), hate each other, kill each other and pillage each other to survive.
Result of the fourth case: the patient's body – the international community – cannot cope with the virus in its advanced, malignant and incurably destructive phase.
5) The will and the spirit to fight against cancer: Such a will is not found in an organized and generalized manner. The masses are ignorant and illiterate, the middle class is uneducated and the intellectuals also suffer from the illusion of literacy, while they have no say for the doomed folks and repeat their repetitive and dysfunctional words. The fighting spirit against the unequal class system, plundered in the form of capitalism and Zionism that commit mass killings is very limited and ineffective. Drugs, alcohol, sex and vulgar entertainment, antidepressants, widespread psychosis, the tendency to abandonment and fatalism have transformed the masses into their own ghosts, and all struggle in a kind of philosophical loss in the fight for physical survival or the continuation of a miserable life or a minimal psychological survival. The efforts for solidarity and preparation for the global struggle are weak, even non-existent, or superficial, and cannot be counted on to defeat the disease.
The conclusion of the fifth point is that the world of the current patient has neither the will nor the spirit to fight the cancer of capitalism-Zionism in its advanced, malignant and untreated phase.
To summarize:
This short, brief and symbolic review gives us the idea that this time, living beings, including humans, have lost their historical chance for survival and prosperity, and that the planet will experience the Anthropocene one, in addition to the many extinctions that have already occurred.
Let's hope not, but the author believes that if the aforementioned account, which requires a more rigorous, methodical and systematic examination, is true, then all of us, and even the babies born today, are, the Walking Dead.
Thus, it should be possible to say that the capitalism-Zionist couple, as cancerous tumor in the 1) final phase 2) malignant 3) without treatment, 4) in a weak and lifeless body, and 5) demoralized by the disease, will put an end to the being of humanity, civilization and life on the planet.
As someone who worked to formulate the "philosophical theory of Infinitism" and who understands the infinite possibilities of human beings for experiencing happiness, I find this to be a very unfortunate and unhappy event, but at the same time, the extinction of humanity does not mean the absolute end of life on this planet.
As millions of years pass and the destruction wrought by the cancer of capitalism-Zionism on Earth fades, protozoa will still have a chance to emerge on our planet, eventually giving rise to intelligent animals like apes with their evolution over several billions years. If this creature, bipedal and humanoid, knows how to avoid producing phenomena such as religion, social class, war, god, exploitation, environmental degradation, etc., it may be spared from a cancerous tumor deadly close to capitalism-Zionism and can therefore survive longer than human beings that we are. Maybe.
However, know that this inevitable process will repeat itself until the day the intelligent beings supposed to live on planet Earth realize that this process is not absolutely "inevitable." While there remains an opportunity to move forward in this current period of human life, correcting this error is not absolutely impossible -because nothing is absolute- but it is a big bet that is more of an uncertain gamble than a hope based on reality. We'll see.#
Korosh Erfani, PhD, is a professor of sociology and political analyst.
Email: korosherfani@yahoo.com
Twitter: @KoroshErfani
Israeli Lawless Exceptionalism
Korosh Erfani
Israel can, of course, keep denying having committed genocide in the Gaza war. Still, it cannot deny the widespread recognition of its genocidal action by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and a significant part of the international community.
How does it overcome this paradox? How can Israel, on the one hand, keep massively killing innocent people in the Gaza strip, and, on the other hand, continue refuting all stern accusations for having committed crimes against humanity, collective punishment, or genocide.
It seems that the tactic Netanyahu’s government opted for is to claim a specific status for Israel—a kind of uniqueness that will put Israel above all the international laws or any other legal and moral restrictions stemming from whatever international institutions, like the Security Council of the U.N. or General Assembly of the United Nations, the U.N.’s agencies and institutions (like UNRWA, WHO, UNICEF), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and so on and so forth.
Tel Aviv’s long shot
What is behind such a callous strategy is obvious: having absolutely free reign to do whatever is in Israel’s national security interest, or Netanyahu’s ‘war cabinet’ in lieu of it, can consider “needed” at the cost of thousands of lives or the destruction of the entire inhabitation and livelihood of thousands of people, either in the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank, the south of Lebanon, or Damascus. Every place the Israeli army wants to operate in should be seen as a no-man’s land, a lawless territory open to all kinds of small, medium, or enormous military maneuvers on behalf of Israel’s short or long-term security interests. Netanyahu and a few ministers decide what to do with thousands of human beings and do not respond to anyone or any organization.
But beyond Tel Aviv’s egotistical approach, much more extensive damage will be done at a greater level to carry out these actions. This aggressive and abnormal conduct, accomplished by the Israeli government and supported directly and so far entirely by the U.S. government, is causing the risky conditions that we can call Israel’s Lawless Exceptionalism. This latter represents a notion that would get rid of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and sets forth the case of exemption for a country whose self-defense doesn’t require following the UDHR.
How does it work?
While all countries in the world try to have some, even if it’s only apparent, respect for international law, Israel is promoting the habit of having no respect at all for whatever could be labelled as ethical or humanitarian obligations, international laws, or alike. And it’s presenting this total defiance of any limitation as not only entirely “legitimate” for itself but as a “necessity” for others. Israel goes even so far as to insinuate that its criminalities are requested demands and encouraged by other countries, including the Arab nations!
This is what we find in the discourse of Israeli, American, and Western governments so far regarding the war of Israel against Hamas: as ‘a moral and legal right’ and even a ‘responsibility’ –a ‘moral’ responsibility to ‘kill the civilians’ at will – a self-contradictory oxymoron in daylight and in front of eight billion human beings.
We all witnessed recently, for instance, during the ICJ sessions, a cluster of documents presented by South Africa’s legal team, demonstrating factually how this idea of the “right of Israel to defend itself” has become an excuse to proceed with all kinds of atrocities against innocent people in Gaza, in such a way that none of the humanitarian obligations, according to Geneva conventions, had been respected by Israel. This lawless approach did not end there, and Israelis even went further, adding insult to injury, by treating the Palestinians as “human animals” and claiming, by their President, that in an area with 2.4 million people, including children, there had been “no one innocent”.
Under such an incredible humanitarian disaster and multiple daily crimes, the maleficent project of creating a bogus uniqueness for Israel is moving forward to trivialize any sort of uncommon crime and make it seen as the “new normal” for the Middle East, including bombing hospitals, schools, refugee camps, ambulances, and killing medical staff, U.N. employees, and journalists.
A realistic warning
Above and beyond those mentioned earlier, real risk of this frightening exceptionalism is not for the present time, where the process of its formation is evolving. Still, the greater and deadlier risk is being conceived for the future.
Once the Israeli ‘Exceptionalism of Lawlessness’ is recognized and “normalized,” it will be put to use. Where and when exactly? Whenever and wherever the logistical options of the Israeli government meet with its interests and allow it to get through: in the West Bank (already in process), in Lebanon (vastly triggered), in Syria (partially initiated), and then, in Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Jordan, and why not in Egypt, if necessary? Later on maybe even in the entire Persian Gulf, in North Africa, or Central Asia; in short, wherever across the world Israel can effectively send its forces, its aircrafts, its submarines, or its drones or whatever else. Let’s not forget that Israel is a nuclear state that has more than 400 nuclear weapons.
Is there a solution?
The main question is, if it becomes the case, what would be the most expedient tool at that time to stop such a troubling Israeli mass-killing no-obligation machine?
None that one can imagine, since if there was any efficient means to restrict it, it would have already prevented this process at its outset and barred the very emergence of such a disparaging and dangerous exceptionalism.
The United States could make a huge mistake by allowing such a distressing undertaking to continue despite its electoral and internal pressures. Because, of course, Israeli exceptionalism would not be without tragic regional or even global repercussions. Once the angry and battered portion of this exceptionalism’s victims starts to backlash, the U.S. won’t have any choice but to enter a real regional or global war for the sake of an under-attack Israel. The case of Yemeni Houthi right now could be considered a limited sample of what we are suggesting as the possible future.
Is this what Washington really wants?
It seems that Netanyahu is planning to use and abuse the ephemeral character of the electoral and transitional timing in the United States’ political calendar -specifically for the 2024 elections- to obtain the largest scope of the laissez-faire attitude of the White House for this malicious strategy that aims even beyond the traditional ambition of a “greater Israel.” Any shortsighted decision by the Oval Office in the current situation will create a precedent by which Israel could bring the U.S. and its military, economic and political powers to where and what the only beneficiary would be itself and no one else, and certainly not the United States.
Korosh Erfani, PhD, is a professor of sociology and political analyst.
Email: korosherfani@yahoo.com