VIDEO: Capitalism is way to nowhere – Immortal Technique

VIDEO: Capitalism is way to nowhere – Immortal Technique

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Corporations ‘are making too much money off of this stage of evolution, the capitalism, to stop and get off us to the next level’, the American rapper Immortal Technique said in an interview with RT.

The musician says the only thing that people are separated by is language and the inability to understand, that humanity has no other choice but to shift to a new economic idea doing away with devastating capitalism. But unfortunately people choose not to understand, he adds.

RT: When Hugo Chavez passed away you took to Twitter to discuss his leadership, his legacy. You clearly sparked some debate. No doubt that Chavez was a huge figure in South American politics. How do you believe his death will impact the continent?

Immortal Technique: When people talk about his death leaving the country divided let me remind you that we live in a very divided country right now. Mr Chavez earned the relationship that he had with the US when he nationalized resources, when he became a vocal critic of some of the overstepping of this country [the US]. Now if any other country we do business with tries to do the same thing, whether they are a country we have some sort of relation with, or they are a client state, they are going to find themselves in the same situation where their leader or anyone who is responsible for making this sort of decisions is demonized.

That being said, I think, even though Mr Chavez was a very inspirational figure especially in the Latino community it was during that time, I remind people, when Saddam Hussein had been toppled – fresh in people’s minds, when Afghanistan had been invaded, when there was talk of going into any other country and here was this upstart man saying ‘Mr Bush, you are an alcoholic, you are a donkey, you are coward, you will need your own troops if you get in your head to invade Venezuela I’ll meet you right here in this savanna’. You know, people hold all kinds of accusations at Mr Chavez. I heard people say that he was anti-Semitic. Anything they can do to defame him of not giving Israel a blank cheque shouldn’t be regarded as anti-Semitism. He in 2009 came and recognized the right of Israel to exist. That was downplayed in the news he added to that he acknowledged the right of Israel to exist but in existing it has to acknowledge the human rights of Palestinians as well. When you attach a statement like that to recognition I guess that in some people’s minds even the question that Palestinians are human beings or that they deserve the same rights as others is controversial.

The oil crisis that he created, he didn’t create it actually – there were several other factors that were involved in there, but other people were looking at it and thought how they could maximize their profits this quarter, and he simply decided to use the political capital and the economic capital that he had with his large oil reserves to make his ideas more popular in Latin America, which he succeeded in doing.

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