Bangladesh: Class Warfare
The sorrows of the people of Bangladesh continue. I remember Viggo Olsen’s labors in Bangladesh
some 33-years ago, Daktar: Diplomat in
Bangladesh.
Global
Economy is the Cause.
The horrors of the global economy continue to confront us. Obviously, a global economy is a ploy of the
rich and powerful to control, even to enslave the working classes. So workers worldwide are pitted against each
other to drive costs and popular power to a minimum, while maximizing wealthy
power and control. It is embarrassing that
this is carried out through the buying practices of the poor, in places like
Wal-Mart.
The
Reality of Bengali Life, It’s Cheap.
The flip side of this horror is that life has always been cheap in Bangladesh. Few care if anyone lives or dies: that’s just
the way it is. In the bitter ironies of
life, a dangerous, potentially lethal factory job in Bangladesh is better than
no job at all. Poor Americans, who shop
at places like Wal-Mart, get to share a pittance of wealth with poverty
stricken Bengalis.
An
American Factory, It’s Funding College.
Yesterday’s news offered another irony.
An American sewing factory could not find enough expert skilled sewing
technicians and is sponsoring advanced education for sewing technicians with
guaranteed jobs upon graduation. Who
would have thought, College for Sewing? Folks
used to consider that, a trade, taught and learned on the job. The irony here is that the global economy has
so eviscerated America’s working class that skilled workers cannot be
found. Meanwhile, even engineering jobs
are being shipped overseas.
Class
Warfare, Nothing Changes.
The obvious solution is that power must be taken away from our
worldwide wealthy monarchy. But this is
class warfare, you complain. Yes, this
is class warfare. It was class warfare
in 1446 BC during the days of Moses, in 1000 BC in David’s kingdom, in 586 BC
with the fall of Jerusalem, in 33 AD at the Crucifixion of Christ. This has always been, and will always be
about class warfare. If you don’t
believe me, it is only because you haven’t been reading your Old Testament; the
incessant complaint of the Psalms and Prophets is the abuse of the poor and
needy. You haven’t been reading your New
Testament either, because Luke 1:46-55 and 4:18-19 make it exceedingly clear.
Us
Versus God, We Lose.
Nevertheless, this is not a war than can be won by physical
might, by multiplication of guns and other weapons, by cheap talk or
writing. This war can only be won by
returning to God. Yes, the fundamental
reason we have got ourselves in such a mess is that we have abandoned God, and
now He is abandoning us.
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall
humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their
land.” — 2 Chronicles 7:14
But then, we’re not really willing to “turn from [our] wicked ways,” Are
we?
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