#economicrationalism — Public Fediverse posts

The short editorial by #CatrionaJackson for #PearlsAndIrritations introduces three leaders it will be keeping an eye on in the coming weeks. In that editorial, there is a quote that I am reproducing here:

“*Italian Marxist politician and philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was writing from one of Mussolini’s prison cells before the Second World War. Gramsci said: “The old world is dying, and a new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.*”

That world ending period, which #Gramsci talked about, extended from just prior to WW1 in 1914 and ended, arguably, with the end of the cold war in 1991. And that is just from a #WesternWorld perspective. It is often said that post-WW2 the world enjoyed a extended period of peace but that is contradicted by history which shows there were wars waged throughtout the period, just not world wars.

I would contend that *a time of monsters* does not depend on world conflagration. We’ve had **monsters** about all along. And for the last 80 years or so, they’ve mostly been #Oligarchs working the #Markets and #Financial systems to plunder the earth. Warmongers are amongst us as well, but never forget the end goal for them is also *plunder* at whatever cost to *Others*. #Psychopaths and deranged minds are fervently at work to this day, whether warring or selling snake oil it makes no difference.

And so it is that in our *free world* our salvation from *monsters* lies with our political leaders. And quite frankly, I don’t see any in the current crop of world leaders with the required *determination, resolve and fortitude* to deliver us from *monsters*. Perhaps it will take another kind of *monster* to birth this new world I’m longing for… but the costs frightens me so.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10/three-leaders-one-reminder-moral-courage-is-not-dead-in-politics-message-from-the-editor/

#WorldOfMonsters #EconomicRationalism #Warmongers #Grifters #History #WorldWars #Leadership #WorldLeaders #UNAssembly

WIth the #greenparty leader(s) election and what seems to be a renewal of the party’s *combative* stance, I am left wondering whether #Shoebridge can pull the party out of the *also ran* percentile and into the 30% range to win government. I have my doubts.

IMO the only way out of our mess is to elect a truly left-leaning #Labor party. But that can only happen if Labor is **pushed** back into its grass-root constructed *Box* which, in turn, can only happen if the *small L* liberals somehow manage to coalesce into a functioning party able to hive-off its #RWNJ factions, return to the center-right of politics and push Labor leftwards. There are a lot of *ifs* here and a multitude of changes required to achieve the goal of a *center-left* social democratic govt to put an end to this mad #EconomicRationalism.

Alternatively, the *sacking* #AlboPM and his Parliamentary faction to bring about a #LaborGreenCoalition govt might prove just as effectively optimistic.

#AusPol #Politics #PartyMachinery #MinorityGovt

#YanisVaroufakis screams the *Obvious* in this Guardian Article. The #RBA decision to hike up the #CashRate ‘is not an anti-inflation policy. It is a cynical transfer of income from people who did not cause the problem to people who are, in fact, profiting handsomely from it.’ (Souce: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/04/yanis-varoufakis-australia-interest-rate-rise )

Not only are the #Oil importers fleecing all and sundry while the #US-Israeli war on #Iran and the #Russian war on #Ukraine provide the excuses to raise the price of a barrel, but the #GasExporters are racking it in because of increased demand worldwide. And in Australia, these gas #Grifters are profiting from minimal tax to no export tax whatsoever allowing #Japan to buy the Gas more cheaply and onsell it (some of back to Australia now and again) for a #profit (another cause of inflation). Meanwhile, every Australian #mortgagee is paying for it. Hence Varoufakis’s righteous indignation:

“No plausible rise in the cash rate will open up the strait of Hormuz, or convince Gulf insurers to lower their premiums, or compel a barrel of Brent crude priced in a global market to come down because a Melbourne mortgage holder is stressed. What it will do is suppress Australians’ spending, wages, their ability to keep a roof over their heads, ultimately their economy’s capacity to invest and to produce. It is a little like treating a broken leg by amputating the healthy one.”

No *wage earner* should put up with this vile economic trickery or the politicians who complicitely enable the #plunder of our #resources and our meagre, hard-earned income. It’s time to put **real representatives** in Parliament and not *stooges* for the #RentierClass

Is it any wonder that #PHON appeals to the *Plebs* when #Poorlean taps into this kind of #Injustice ?

#AusPol #EconomicRationalism #WealthTransfers #UnDemocracy #RapingTheEconomy #ScroogesGalore #TaxGas #TaxTheRich #TaxReform #RBAreform #NeoLiberalism #NoMoreWars #Rentiers #StateCapture #EconomicTheft #NoMoreBillionaires #ClassWar #FossilFuelScam #GreedFlation #2028FederalElections #JoinYourUnion #inUnity