Redefining Justice..

The downside of the capitalist system (i.e. a political system generally guided by the premise that capital is prioritized to other human issues) is its intrinsic corruptive influence it has on the development of society in general.

One of the aspects of the capitalist society’s generic problems is its consequently flawed justice system. The U.S. Court/Justice system has been long criticized for its being guided not by the morals, benefiting the justice and wellbeing of the public, but by the precepts and instructions that have been imposed upon the system by the Capital with one sole purpose in mind that is to protect the interests of the Capital.

Corporate interests vested in a bunch of financial and industrial groups represent the U.S. Capital as an entity. Their interests are protected by the U.S. Justice system, which has undergone severe reforms since the 1970s and become part of the corporate money-making machine, disguised as a national justice system.

All U.S. national institutions have undergone transformation ever since. There is a shifting of the emphasis from traditional national interests of the Capital to its transnational interests. Ones territorially defined and therefore socially based on the population that inhabits that particular geographical territory, the nation-based interests turned into transnational interests of the Corporate Capital that has gone irrevocably global but have retained traditional national institutions, those of the U.S. Justice system included, as part of their business network.

The U.S. Justice system is part of the revolutionary rapidly evolving corporate-based global-wide privately owned enterprise, which has to deal with individual interests of the members of the legacy nation-based social culture in an economically efficient way. The guiding lines are not abstract universal or religious social morals or national ethics, pursuing the good of the nation-based society, but Corporate instructions that aim at maximizing Corporate gains and profits and minimizing Corporate losses.

Privately owned prisons and the need to generate more profit for the courts explain in part the fact that the U.S. have the greatest number of prison inmates in the world and 90% of all cases get plea bargained. The U.S. has been incorporated for so long that most people do not even realize how many different businesses benefit from having more people incarcerated.

The contradiction between the supranational corporate interests of the Imperialist Capital (i.e. a national Capital seeking absolutist totalitarian powers) and the national social interests of individual citizens lead to abuses and discrimination against the people, who have been left out of the process of total incorporation. Those citizens, who have been on their own, who have not become property of the Corporate Capital, are bound to be done a disservice to by the Corporate-owned Justice system. The Imperialist Corporations are obliged to protect their own people, as their employees, whose labor the Corporation owns. All other people are viewed as redundant, at best.

Therefore, today’s U.S. justice system is not exactly the place where you would want to seek justice. Unless by justice you meant some sort of integrity within your own corporate setting.