The pro-democracy movements that the U.S. government promotes, as through the National Endowment for Democracy, are more than foreign policy tools of the U.S. empire in the Middle East and other regions. Although these surely aid the empire and thus function as very serious obstacles to progress, these movements also should be viewed as very serious competition to capitalism, economic freedom and economic rights. Democracies are anti-capitalistic, anti-economic freedom and anti-economic rights. The U.S. as the foremost democracy has conclusively demonstrated this in its legislation and laws for 75-100 years now.

The thinking of every young person in every country in the world is the field of contest. If young people grasped that economic (and thus human) progress depends in the first and most fundamental instance upon economic rights (including property rights), they’d be out in the streets and organizing on these internet groups for economic freedom and property rights. They’d be advocating for limited government and/or for governing institutions that stood for and protected these freedoms and rights. They would not let themselves be used to promote democracies when the latter bring nothing more than severely hampered (socialist) market economies under the guise of freedom, and when these democratic governments are in league with the U.S. and similar western governments that have long since been squashing economic freedoms and preventing the material progress of their own peoples.

Pro-democracy movements are competing with liberty movements. These two movements are in direct opposition to one another. Pro-democracy movements are not progressive. They seek to perpetuate and extend the old and oppressive order of power and politics as opposed to the order of liberty and particularly economic liberties.

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