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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:14 PM Original message |
Capitalism is dead |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
1. As long as the means of production are privately owned, and wealth created during production is... |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Actually, we're living under corporate feudalism |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:24 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Very technically... fascism |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. If only corporatism and fascism were the same thing |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:24 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Blah, its a beautiful capitalistic butterfly that peeled away from its confining cocoon |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. it's fascism |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Why would a fascist government exist to benefit private corporations? |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. That is not true. Just look at Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Seems ignored has a lack of knoweldge |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. Lack of knowledge? You are equating a complete political philosophy to an economic system... |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:52 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. +1 |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:56 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. What you are describing is an exploitation of the ideas of fascism to enable corporatism |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
3. May be dying, and taking everything along with it. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. It's dead... been dead for a while |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
9. we sure don't have capitalism here anymore |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. It's the propaganda, it sounds much better than calling it what |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. true... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. But it's almost impossible |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. too many benefit from the system and don't want to scarifice their comfortable life styles |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. That is true |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. The way I see it, people who don't call this {late stage} capitalism are Capitalist Apologists |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. lol |
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gulliver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
15. Not yet, but the Republicans are working toward that. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. It is gone |
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gulliver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:51 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Well, it could come back. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:54 PM Original message |
Well I will eat, gladly mind you, my hat |
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dem mba (732 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
24. the end is nigh!1111!!!!! |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Well, well when exactly did I say |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 04:00 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. The Nazis are coming! The Nazis are coming! |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 04:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. they are already here |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 04:23 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Oh! Then run for the hills! Buy lots of Gold and Guns! |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 04:27 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I'm not scared, but I know what I see and read regardless of your attitude |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 04:28 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Good to hear |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
31. K & R nt |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
34. No, but it is dying. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:01 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Been dead for over a generation, at least |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
36. well, it's certainly changed, but it isn't dead |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:43 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. It moved to Benito Mussolini's working definition |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:26 PM Response to Reply #39 |
53. Except it probably didn't.... |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:36 PM Response to Reply #39 |
56. I think it's actually closer to what Mussolini called supercapitalism (which he opposed) |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:43 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. The states and the corporations |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:02 PM Response to Reply #57 |
64. actually, the states, corporations, and labor were to work together to control the economy |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:06 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. But I have read his hard to read rants |
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USArmyParatrooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
37. Do you have an example of a non-Capitalist country |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:42 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Sweeeden and Norway |
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USArmyParatrooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:48 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. They're Capitalist |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:57 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. No they are not |
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USArmyParatrooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:01 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. It's highly regulated *Capitalism* |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:04 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. What we are living under is NO LONGER Capitalism |
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USArmyParatrooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:16 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. A Social Democracy |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:21 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. For Sweeden and Norway |
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USArmyParatrooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:45 PM Response to Reply #52 |
59. I think we're only disagreeing on |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:52 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. And why do you think that? |
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USArmyParatrooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:05 PM Response to Reply #61 |
65. Let me clarify |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:09 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. The problem is that it is not |
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USArmyParatrooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:13 PM Response to Reply #67 |
69. Government regulation =/= Socialism |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:19 PM Response to Reply #69 |
70. You really do not get how regulated they are |
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USArmyParatrooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:26 PM Response to Reply #70 |
72. I asked you for a successful application of Socialism |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:29 PM Response to Reply #72 |
73. It is... but to each his own |
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jotsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 08:01 PM Response to Reply #42 |
75. Curious |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:27 PM Response to Reply #38 |
54. The US has a mixed economy too |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Yes... the USA |
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USArmyParatrooper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:50 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. It's not *pure* Capitalism, sure |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. By Reagan's time |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:29 PM Response to Reply #43 |
55. If thats the bar, it never existed |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
41. I thought "corporatist" was on the list of no-no words. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 05:59 PM Response to Reply #41 |
46. Not in my dictionary of Political Science terms |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:10 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. I wonder if they ever will? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:13 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. If the past is prologue |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
58. The problem is : FEUDALISM IS BACK. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:56 PM Response to Reply #58 |
63. Fascism |
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kgnu_fan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
60. I think we need "morality" in economic system and "god" has died |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 06:55 PM Response to Reply #60 |
62. A hybrid economic system |
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kgnu_fan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:11 PM Response to Reply #62 |
68. Concept of "God" is helpful if people actually live by "the teaching" |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:21 PM Response to Reply #68 |
71. As I said, for both Smith and Jefferson |
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kgnu_fan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-09-10 07:59 PM Response to Reply #71 |
74. Whatever works for people to be good. If someone needs a god who |
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