[PieterCasparzen]

Rockefeller wanted to be a part of teaching people how to feed themselves because Communism was a very real threat in the third world, and food was the tool used by these wannabe totalitarians to gain and solidify their power. Rockefeller, in helping stem the rising tide of Communism, was also protecting his investments in these countries.

Apparently Wall Streeters helped finance the Bolsheviks (including Chase National Bank). Big capital in the U.S. has apparently never been averse to dealing with communists. Ford Built a plant in Russia in 1932.

This is the stuff I find hard to square: why would capitalists not simply starve out a communist government if they were anti-communist ? Or use their influence to Stop communists from coming to power ? Also - in terms of "protecting investments" in the third world so "communists" don't take over and "take" the investments - I'm amazed that big American capital was investing in Soviet Russia. How afraid can big capital be of communism if it finances it and invests in the USSR ?

I'm working my way through finding some kind of decently reliable evidence for such crazy talk. One capitalist expressed a positive feeling about the Bolsheviks: Jacob Schiff was head of the New York investment firm Kuhn, Loeb and Co., I'm sitting here looking at a New York Times article where he and President Wilson express their well wishes at the success of the Bolshevik revolution.

I don't think a communist NY Times put up fakes of old articles on their website.

I'm simply unable to understand why a "businessman" would invest in a communist country. I know I wouldn't. There are probably a lot of small business owners who would not.

[LearsFool]

I wonder, is this why we’re burning food in our cars?

I recall an article posted here a few years ago, which quoted some fellow from some African country saying something like:

“Stop sending us your charity. Stop giving us free clothes and free food.

We need to develop an economy in which our clothes-makers and our farmers (for instance) can do business with one another. But when you keep giving this stuff away, it puts us all out of business. None of us can compete with ‘free stuff’.”

So...The farmers (for one) in poor countries can’t make a living by farming, and the country becomes dependent on the West for their food. Maybe one of Soros’ Big Ag conglomerates buys up their farmland, and hires the locals to grow sugarcane at near-slave wages, and then gets the taxpayer-funded ethanol subsidies to-boot.

(Just thinking out loud here. Tinfoil hat? Maybe. But if I wanted to subjugate people, this is one way I’d go about it...because it would work.)