Criticism Of Capitalism Must Come From The Right

 

I have been reading a Russian Philosopher in the last week, and something becomes quite clear while reading Russian critics of Russia and Soviet communism from the post Bolshevik era: those to the right of politics who generally agree with the basic principles of capitalism and lean towards establishment bias should be the most vocal critics of the establishment and the abuses of capitalists. Otherwise, people will gravitate towards the more radical arguments of the socialists, anarchists and others.

The flaws and abuses of our "free" trade and free movement of people system are becoming so clear to many. To deny them, or support the system holistically that is perpetuating them, is silly and in fact dangerous. And yet I see many figures on the right who are not willing to criticize these things.

When you consider what capitalism is, basically survival of the fittest applied to economics, then it does not take much imagination to realize that such a system will tend towards monopolization of the oligarchs, corruption of the political system to serve those oligarchs, and predatory behaviours towards those who do not have the same kinds of money or influence. Biblically, God has not designed society to flourish under a survival of the fittest kind of system, but under a system with sound economic boundaries in place that has regular resets. For instance he ordained that it was lawful to charge interest to foreign businessmen working in Israel, but not for their fellow countrymen, and he ordained the Jubilee so that every generation or so debts were cancelled and reset. These kinds of policies put restraints on the Hebrew economy which protected the interests of the nation, and limited the power that the wealthy could achieve. Our modern system has not done this anywhere near as effectively and hence our society is captured by the Oligarchs, particularly the United States, which then dominates its satellite nations.

When you read the Christian Russian philosophers you see that it was not just the radical leftists who saw the problems of the system, but obviously their voices were not pronounced enough. Russia would have been far better off if the Romanovs were more successfully criticized and called to change things from the right, rather than allowing the left to become the voice of the people and therefore incredibly powerful.

Right-wing commentators on the culture wars should be aware of this. A survival of the fittest mentality towards the economy is just the application of Satanic libertarian principles under different terms. Nature, red in tooth and claw, is an ungodly way to look at this world, there is far more to it, and it is an even less godly way to look at the economy. The economy should be a servant of the people, not their overlord, and you will find that the more unbalanced the economy becomes the more people are willing to look towards radical voices.

One should not advocate for equality of opportunity or equality of outcomes, because both are impossibilities. But nor should we be content with the inequities becoming too large. Because then you will find yourself living in a society given to anarchy, and prone to revolution.