what's so bad about capitalism?
I've been a hippie and a vegan and have taken a permaculture design course. I'm all for indigenous rights and I think I hate cops more than anything else on the planet. I'm basically an anarchist, and...
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You could start by reading Karl Marx, I suppose... but, just off the top of my head, here's a few over-simplified points why I'm against capitalism : First, instead of earning your money ( and food )...
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Another thought about capitalism... You might imagine a bunch of people, living on a patch of the planet, very enlightened people, who get everything they need from their environment. They grow their...
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corm, your initial thought that corporatism is a bad guy in the present system is correct. The abolition of corporate personhood, is critical to any reform of capitalism. However, you are going to...
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I don't agree with "If I were you, I would never use the word fascism again, it has become a virtually meaningless term.", because corm was using the term 'fascism' in one of the contexts where it is...
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corm wrote: I never asked myself that until a friend of mine told me about Murray Rothbard and the Austrian school of economics. After reading a book by Rothbard, in which he defines capitalism as...
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wolfbird, fascism has become a sloppy pejorative for any authoritarian thing you don't like. Is it accurate to call a Chinese based multinational part of corporate fascism? (Don't bite, it is a trick...
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Well, funnily enough, I agree with you, coyote. I was really just making a minor point, that, although 'fascism' is so totally abused as a term that it has become useless - pretty much just an insult...
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KGZotU, "Capitalism is the antithesis of socialism: both talk about who owns the means of production." I thought Marxism, or Communism, was considered the antithesis of Capitalism. Socialism...
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wolfbird sayeth: "Well, funnily enough, I agree with you, coyote." I knew you would, all intelligent people do ;-) As GW said: "Either you agree with us, or you are a terrorist." Now we are about to...
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@corm: Alright, socialism et al have acquired some meaning through use. The greater point is as I stated, that you can have a free market, even a free labor market, without capitalism. Capitalism then...
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How do we fit consumerism into the picture ? Whether it's a socialist system like, say, Sweden, or a corporatist system, like USA, or something in between, like, say France, what people actually do is...
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I'm currently reading "The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Revision of Capitalism" which like all of Howard Blooms books is a real mind bender so far. He examines capitalism as a successful...
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