Originally Posted by ThomasG
gallivant_fellow:
The use of CAFTA and NAFTA in pursuit of SO CALLED FREE TRADE is not free trade at all, but the use of free trade as a trope that signifies to those who own the economy that they are free to benefit from obscene profit against the benefit of the majority population, and the majority population are free to participate without benefit, or to starve. A trope, FREE TRADE, that signifies to the aristocratic class and culture that they are free to get all of the benefit and that the common population is free to get NONE of the benefit while doing all of the work is not free trade at all; it is only free trade as a hollow meaningless trope, an old AMERICAN TRADITION that has been in use since before the American Revolutionary War.
In FREE TRADE, if the common population cannot use their communal resources as a means of production and distribution, the common population cannot benefit from FREE TRADE. The aristocratic class and culture have the means of production and distribution to participate in SO CALLED FREE TRADE, not the common population. The aristocratic class will therefore receive the benefit of markets in a SO CALLED FREE TRADE ECONOMY, rather than the common population. NOTHING IS FREE, most of all SO CALLED FREE TRADE AS A TROPE.