Howard Switzer
2 min readJun 11, 2023

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I don't think capitalist plutocrats hate capitalism, they hate its reputation being used against them to impact their profits. I think capitalism was intentionally mis-defined to hide what it is. Capitalism = (capital = money) + (ism = system) = money system. The central feature and source of awesome power for capitalism is their debt based private global monetary system which is buried in mind-numbing complexity to hide this simple truth.

Capitalism is a parasite on the back of free enterprise extracting its wealth The two are often and wrongly conflated. We do not have a market economy, we have a monopoly economy but we could have a free market economy if we ended capitalism in favor of democracy.

A Princeton Study found that from 2009 to 2014, the 200 most politically active companies in the U.S. spent $5.8 billion influencing our government with lobbying and campaign contributions. Those same companies got $4.4 trillion in taxpayer support – a 750% return on their investment. In fact, the banks learned long ago, as far back as the 1600s, that by far their most profitable investments were in governments. Using war debt, the banks gradually got governments to give them control of their monetary systems, giving up their sovereignty. They set up a central bank for each country for management purposes. The wars are all banker’s wars, have been for a long time. When you control a government you can send it to war, very profitable for the banks.

I greatly appreciate your writing to expose the myriad of scams this system generated, and impressed by the volume of your work.

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Howard Switzer
Howard Switzer

Written by Howard Switzer

Howard Switzer is an ecological architect and monetary reformer in rural Tennessee.

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