MONEY...

 

...A “Love” Poem for North America

 “I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls the British money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply." Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild (16 September 1777 – 28 July 1836)

Money (“noun”) is:

an invisible breakfast our kids can't eat

on their way to your school, its bitter and bewildered

windows all broken but its steel doors

still secretly forged, and always open, for suffering.

 

Money (aka “plunder”) is

an American word for regime change

an Israeli word for friendship

a Russian word for the revolution of the kleptocrat

a Spanish or Chilean word for a fascist military coup

…and more, much more…

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...And here, for those who do not know (nor care)

here are the uncountable, unrecognisable,

the poorest of people, the ones Neruda called:

“Frutas de sol a todos los oscuros!

…Tú encendiste la vida”

the ones Roque described as

“those who had a bit more luck,

the eternal illegal immigrants,

who’d do anything, sell anything, eat anything,

the first ones to pull a knife,

the saddest of the sad,

my compatriots,

my brothers…”

 

but they have no names (only shadows

on the peripheries of poverty),

no faces we will recognise (as they pass

us by)

only statistics:

 

“In 1842 in Manchester, UK,

the average age of death for labourers was 17 years,

men, women and children were worked to death to fuel rapid

industrial expansion and grow the expansion and grow

the fortunes of the owners of this new economy.” (Oxfam)

 

…only a fear of figures that never match up,

bills unpaid, hunger hidden, debt collectors come

kicking at your door

 

… and still, they say,

we live,

in “the best of all

possible worlds”..?

Full Poem, Links & References 

Rather than solely a US phenomenon Oxfam’s paper demonstrates that rising oligarchy is undermining societies worldwide. Oxfam’s report finds...

The report  [19 January 2026 ]  

  Resisting the Rule of the Rich: Protecting Freedom from Billionaire Power  

"analyses how the super-rich are securing political power to shape the rules of our economies and societies for their own gain and to the detriment of the rights and freedoms of people around the world."

"It is one thing for a billionaire to buy an enormous yacht or many luxury homes around the world. This excessive consumption can be rightly criticized in a deeply unequal world where the majority of people have very little and our planet is suffocating from relentless carbon emissions and waste. But many would reject this criticism, describing it as the politics on envy.

Yet far fewer people would disagree that when a billionaire uses their wealth to buy a politician, to influence a government, to own a newspaper or a social media platform, or to out-lawyer any opposition to ensure they are above the law, that these actions undermine progress and fairness. Such power gives billionaires control over all our futures, undermining political freedom and the rights of the rest of us."

SEE ALSO

 

"Takers Not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth of colonialism"

20 January 2025:  "Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than in 2023. At least five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. Inequality is out of control.

Our latest annual inequality report, “Takers Not Makers” explores how most billionaire wealth is taken, not earned - with 60% coming from either inheritance, cronyism or monopoly power. Furthermore, our deeply unequal world remains colonial in many ways. There is a long history of colonial domination which has largely benefited the richest people. This system still extracts wealth from the Global South to the super-rich 1% in the Global North at a rate of $30million an hour. This must be reversed."

  ...

"And so Marx wrote:

"The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and size. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he produces."

(Capital, Volume I, Chapter 25)

 And even Timothy, the Disciple of Jesus, agreed

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”  (1 Timothy 6:10 - King James Version)..."

"Il denaro (o meglio, il “bottino”) è / una parola americana per il cambio di regime / una parola israeliana per l’amicizia / una parola russa per la rivoluzione del cleptocrate / una parola spagnola o cilena per un colpo di stato militare fascista /
…e altro, molto altro… – Una poesia di Séamas Carraher"

DENARO – Una poesia “d’amore” per il Nord America

"Life has become unbearably difficult for ordinary citizens and now - from Nairobi to Bangladesh, Italy to Peru - workers of the world are downing their tools and demanding better, rejecting a global economic order that treats their suffering as necessary for profit." (WANJIRA WANJIRU) 

#Make #thewrittenword a #subversive activity in an age of Resurgent #Fascism.