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Menelanjangi Liberalisme
Ahmad Erani Yustika
Ketika sosialisme “berjaya” pada dekade 1950-an, yang tampak di permukaan sebetulnya hanya khayalan tentang indahnya pemerataan.
Sebab, yang sebenarnya terjadi adalah kemelaratan massal yang ditumpuk di bawah glamor yang dinikmati elite politik. Itulah aurat sosialisme yang coba ditutupi lewat baju “sama rata, sama rasaâ”. Kontrasnya adalah impian kapitalisme tentang “pertumbuhan tak terbatas” yang bakal dinikmati semua orang melalui kebebasan tak terhingga.
Realitasnya, kebebasan tak terbatas itu hanya milik pemilik modal yang jumlahnya amat sedikit, sedangkan selaksa kaum tunakapital tersandera dalam pilihan-pilihan yang serba terbatas. Hasilnya, ketimpangan kesejahteraan dan watak kerakusan korporasi yang tidak terbendung. Ketelanjangan kapitalisme inilah yang hari-hari belakangan ini tersingkap dari baju perekonomian AS sehingga kehormatannya nyaris terkoyak. Read the rest of this entry »









Columbus, having quit the profession of slave trading to become an explorer, sailed for the new world in 1492. Within hours of landing, Columbus had kidnapped 6 natives in order to “christianize” them and make them his servants. Columbus incorrectly reported that the inhabitants of the New World had no religion. After planting a cross, Columbus would say the “Requerimiento”, a prayer that officially made the newly found lands Catholic. Since nobody present objected (the natives did not speak latin), the new world became officially the domain of the Catholic church. Over the next hundred years, thousands of indians were burned to death for offending Christians.
On Hispaniola alone, 50,000 Arawaks were killed, the rest were sent into slavery. Chief Hatuey declared that if heaven is where Christians go, that he would prefer to live in hell. He was burned alive for heresy. What happened to his people was described by an eyewitness: “The Spaniards found pleasure in inventing all kinds of odd cruelties … They built a long gibbet, long enough for the toes to touch the ground to prevent strangling, and hanged thirteen [natives] at a time in honor of Christ Our Saviour and the twelve Apostles… then, straw was wrapped around their torn bodies and they were burned alive.”
A hundred Indians bundled together and set on fire by the Christian Conquestadores.
source: http://whatreallyhappened.com/