Capitalism's Fatal Flaw, and the Way Forward: 2025

Wednesday, January 01, 2025

Amelia Earhart’s Socialism.

Amelia Earhart’s Socialism.

Dear Reader,

A new book on the -- still unsolved -- Amelia Earhart mystery, quotes from a letter that Ms. Earhart wrote to her mother, on 22 May 1936.

In that letter, Amelia tells her mother of her belief that social experiments then underway will, at length, show the way to a new society, in which governments will become the voice of "the proletariat" far beyond what, in that regard, "democracy" can possibly achieve.

Now, we know that Amelia travelled in circles centered around the Roosevelt administration, and also in circles rooted in the Hollywood of her time.

We also may conjecture that, still in the throes of the recently unleashed Global "Great Depression" I., and with various variants of fascist state-capitalism then overtaking nation after nation in Europe and the Orient, the reputation and credibility of capitalism was, in those years, at an all-time low in its history up to that time.

The Stalinist, 'proto-state-capitalist', [pseudo-]"Soviet" Union may have seemed like a potential alternative to many at that time.

Amelia's assertion of the limitations of "democracy" as a voice of "the proletariat", may indicate that she had been duped by the Leninist "bait-and-switch" of "the dictatorship of the proletariat", which was, in reality, the "dictatorship over the proletariat" by the Leninist state-bureaucratic ruling class.

The author speculates that, had she lived, Amelia might have been defamed and ostracized, for such views, during the "Cold War".

Or perhaps Amelia had in mind the 'cooperativist', "collectivist" and "councilist" social experiments going on in the Spain of that time, and elsewhere as well.

Perhaps we will never know.

Because Amelia became obsessed with media-mediated fame, as well as with the monetary rewards that such fame could entrain. This led her to an entire sequence of bad -- high risk -- decisions that ultimately cost her her life.