Rodong Sinmun“Animal Billionaires” and “Human Animals”

“Animal Billionaires” and “Human Animals”



“Animal billionaires” and “human animals" these words cannot be found in any dictionaries. However, these words are commonly used in capitalist countries. Not long ago, ABC reported that an Italian billionaire, who died last year, bequeathed a huge property including cash and real estate worth 130 million US$ to her pet cat “Thomaso.”

What matters now is that such animal billionaires are not a few; they are many in capitalist countries.

Take a German woman's shepherd “Gunti the fourth” for example. He inherited from his master 372 million US$ to become the richest pet dog in the world.

While millions of the jobless and the homeless go about hungry in the streets, these pets, along with their billionaire masters, enjoy all pleasures of life in luxurious mansions.

In capitalist society it is none but money that decides the worth of a man.

Therefore, apart from money, one can hardly speak of any good human relations and virtues. The only thing prevalent over there is social vices. It may be interesting to recall here what an Australian newspaper reported some years ago. Here is what it said.

There is a zoo in the southern part of Australia.

There live four pairs of men and women among some families of chimpanzees and gorillas.

They eat what the animals eat and play with toys as animals do.

A veterinary takes care of their health.

Observing the way of life of “human animals”, a psychologist conducts an intensive research into their animalistic features. Why do they reduce themselves to such a miserable lot? We think there is no explanation about it.

It is a mockery and violation of human dignity and personality.

This is a social vice and the most corrupt way of thinking that it is only the money that can speak.

It is not surprising to recall what a magazine of a capitalist country wrote: “Chita is the fastest animal, elephant is the biggest animal and human is the cleverest animal in land”.

In capitalist countries men with no money are looked down upon, while pet animals raised by big money bags live in wealth and luxury just as their masters.

Despite the loud advertisement of bourgeois politicians that their society is a model of civilization, development, human rights and ethical practice, what they are doing gives a lie to their demagogy.

Pae Kum Hu