How Runaway Capitalism Forced Us To Become Communist

33rd G8 Summit 2007

The wealthy capitalists say, know your place boy        
To women, don't be a top exec, be a coy sex toy
To same sex couples, you're not the real McCoy          
In this corporation, your kind we under employ
Increased communal living for the hoi polloi!

American Shanty Town

First Class

Toronto's Bridal Path 

Immigrant families are forced to pool resource

Homeless shelters considered humane recourse
Or you could live under a bridge, in a tent community 

The only full tax exemption, from capitalist incongruity        

Artist's depiction of U.S. wealth inequality in 2013.

Western elites compare us, to those in abject poverty
At least we're not like them, be grateful for your sovereignty
Shirking our financial duty, sinks us deeper in a quandary

                                                                                                

As more and more join the ranks of the working poor 

A greater burden will be shouldered by the middle core
Individuality gets sapped, as we become more insecure
Collective identities emerge, like the communists you abhor

Homeless man Tokyo

If only all of us could look and be the same,
Baa Baa black sheep an oft heard child's refrain
The wool pulled over your eyes is held there by your chains
The whip across your back, feeds a familiar pain

Like the white moderates Martin Luther King spoke about
The ones deathly afraid of social unrest breaking out
Their cowardice maintained the status-quo at any cost
Few rights retained and many freedoms lost

Columbia University

Some have cushy jobs working in media
Spreading propaganda, undermining Wikipedia
They secretly abhor web 2.0
Because it provides a soapbox for the unwitting Joe

There is an unwritten law, enforced by the West            
Speak your mind within a socially approved context
Even if you disagree with the conformist point of view    

You must understand, society will censure you
It's for your own safety, say the top earning few
We had wealthy parents to put us through, Columbia U

The Western intelligentsia tow the line, or face expulsion
Conservative McCarthyism bears its teeth and revulsion
Academic pandering, is the wealthy's obsessive compulsion
Elites took back the university for status and propulsion
                   

Royal Bank of Canada

                                         

Reaganomics gave America what it well deserved
When a lousy Hollywood actor, as president did serve
Conservatives tout his reputation, like royalty well preserved
No unbiased view of history believes this should be observed

More Than Just Race

His trickle down policies imprisoned inner city blacks      
America's prison industry, the net beneath the cracks                
Every Western country disproportionately jails its poor
The West is not advanced, it's deluded by grandeur

White elites in Canada for all their fuss about equality              
Did little to help Indigenous lives sunk low in poverty
But they sure did help themselves like hogs at the trough
We shake our heads in disbelief, they were probably bought off
Not exactly for, a monetary sum
Their spinning wheels indicated, a politically motivated one
Liberals and Conservatives never got a meaningful thing done!