No one will forget this sight on February 23, 2011. Benghazi’s liberation was one the most memorable moments of our revolution because it was a sight we never dreamed could happen. The unison of the singing, the swaying of the massive crowd, the Mediterranean sea in the background. There are no words to describe the unbelievable feeling to see one our beautiful cities that was so severely oppressed by Gaddafi’s regime come alive again. It is a must watch again. The video speaks for itself.
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The revolution united the people of Benghazi. What a celebration !
It’s not over yet. They only removed the political oppression but not the economic repression. They still have to annhilate the previous economic ruling elite and give direct ownership of Libya’s oil and oil companies to the Libyan public instead of another rulling elite.
Political freedom without wealth ownership and freedom from economic fascsim is meaningless. The Libyan people are finding this out as they remain impoverished, crippled and unrewarded for their revoution and a new elite based on the Western model of economic fascsim and allied with Western Economic fascist elites seeks to opress them.
Working for an elite can only bring opprssion, misery, poverty and slavery. People must have participatory ownership in the buisnesses they are working “for” (for themsleves) not working “in” (for someone else).
The Libyan people are finding out that their liberation is hollow and empty.
When the Western propagada says “forgive the old guard” , they actually mean “maintain the old guard, the old economic class” and the Western idea of “Justice” is to re-establish a new power elite co-opted by the Western power elites oppressing the common people the same as it is done in the West.
The reason the Libyan militas do not disband is because they wisely understand this and are trying to fight against it. It is not simply physical power, they are trying to prevent the wealth ownership from being centralized. The wealth ownership needs to be dispersed regionaly , locally, by districs, by familie and individually.
No ownership means no freedom.
Decentralization of wealth ownership guarantees democracy and democratic capitalism. Elite ownership of wealth guarantees economic fascsim and more Gaddafis.
The economic repression is there . The war is over but there is work to do, There will always be work to do. The Libyan people are watching the NTC closely. We must wait.
The NTC is failing to communicate with it’s people and there might be future conflicts similar to the one that took place in Mr Jalil offices in Benghazi a few weeks ago.
The good news there is freedom in Libya. Al Jazeera news in English reported that the former Kaddafi residence had been used as a flee market where merchant trading is taking place every week. I saw people selling clothes , food, shoes, fruits and the consumers interviewed said there were happy because this flee market offers better prices than other businesses in Tripoli.
My expectations of the future Libyan government are low but I have high hopes of the people of Libya.
However, I wonder how the majority of Libyans make their money if not all of them are business people and the state is paying it’s employees for the most part.
“However, I wonder how the majority of Libyans make their money if not all of them are business people and the state is paying it’s employees for the most part.”
This is the problem. Previously Gaddafi (the State) owned the oil and paid Libyans as “employees” (and of course exploited them to the max – this is the nature of elite ownership).
No nation’s citizens should be employees for something that belongs to them.
The question is which individuals are now taking control of the oil or if the old elite is in fact still in charge.
The control and ownership cannot be kept in the hands of either the state or an elite. It is all the same oppression just minus the torture and executions (or minus most of it).
The best thing is for the ownership of the resources be taken regionally in to as small units as possible cities , districts , communities, even if it comes down to issuing share certificates to every Libyan citizen.
In fact this is the reason why all the regional groups are refusing to hand in their weapons and surrender to a central authority – to do so is to surrender economic ownership of wealth where both the wealth and the ownership of the production of wealth needs to be shared as widely as possible in order to promote a healthy capitalism.
If a central authority retains control of the oil they will not be the servants of the people but the owners of the people and they will exploit them to the max. They will become owners of the people because oil wealth is so vast that the people are not needed for taxes or funding so their support is not needed.
Therefore the neither the Government nor a small group should own the oil.
A nation of “employees’ is not capitalism , it is serfdom and it is a nation of people that are denied the right to make their own prosperity.