The Gulag Archipelago: Our Emerging System of Slavery for an Unneeded Workforce

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This podcast is an analysis of the American Gulag Archipelago (i.e. Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet author and Nobel laureate in literature who wrote about Russian history in the context of incarceration). And by and through this model, J.A. Krupka's podcast will follow the history of American incarceration as it pertains to a fair-minded view of our reckless interventionism, globalism, and exporting jobs to take advantage of a new kind of slavery both domestically and abroad.

The prison system is slavery, but people misunderstand how and why it has come about. Up until the 1970s, we had a thriving industrial sector that was slowly shipped away to China after Henry Kissinger and President Richard Nixon (i.e. the godfather of neoconservatism, or "neoliberalism with a gun," as I like to say) opened Sesame to the slave labor that the Chinese Communist Party could offer our elites.

Rather than producing the products that are seen as our lifeblood or even birthright—embodiments of American know-how, all of them reverse-engineered—Western corporations have taken the once proud manufacturing centers of the Midwest, East Coast, all over the United States to a foreign land far away from our rigid environmental and labor laws. There are myriad reasons for this changing of the guard; and if you don’t realize how deeply and profoundly this affects our prison system, you’ve got another thing coming.

As our education system has lagged behind, by design some might say, we’ve abandoned producing useful individuals—particularly useful men, as this new economic norm is marginalizing men of all races, cultures, and creeds—so much so that with the advent or robotics and artificial intelligence, there are what the World Economic Forum might deem as “useless humans” populating our city streets and prisons. Many times, these men are hooked on fentanyl that just so happens to be manufactured in China.

That’s not to say that China or the Chinese people are inherently bad, or that they shouldn't have economic success. And we must remember their people’s subjugation at the British’s hands, how the former empire exploited the country and got everyone hooked on foreign opium.

The entire history should be told, but we don’t even have a literate populace to understand the caveats of these stories—if they were to be told at all—so it’s incumbent on me, as a former convict who can offer suggestions at the micro- and macro-level, to try and fix the worsening situation.

But by allowing our companies to support a slave state, we've become more and more like the Chinese communist state as our own government becomes more insolvent, more ruthless, and more "zero sum" as it sees the world today. One doesn't have to be a genius to see where this is going... the war with Ukraine, the South China Sea, all of it is coming to a head with a doddering geriatric patient at the helm.

And for this reason, I hope you check out my other publications, particularly as they pertain to the “traditional liberalism,” the Publius Project, and the policy changes I’m suggesting in response to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ “Green New Deal.”

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