Sep 05 2007
Natural Enemies
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by Vi Ransel
9/5/07
Capitalism
is an economic system
consisting
of predators and prey,
in large part dependent
on the predator’s ability
to convince victims
inferiority
is their fate.
The predators
proclaim themselves
the Darwinian pinnacle
of a self-created, pyramid-like “food chain”,
but the predators
are dependent on the product
and the profit
produced only by those
designated prey.
And since
plutocratic predators
refuse to produce,
they are actually
the weakest link in the chain.
But as long as the prey
can be convinced
of the opposite
predators can perpetrate
their economic
rape.
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