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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    Can I ask the entire class one question?

    Does everyone agree that capitalism in its pure form is what built this great nation and we are much better because of it? I do.

    Yes. There is no argument that at least materially that isn't so.

    Next time, though, raise your hand.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Hers is just the typical liberal counter to conservative criticism that the aim is to return to some the world of yesteryear. We can't. The cat's out of the bag, Pandora's box has been opened. You have to work with what is. The only ideas I see on how to improve things is to economically support local mom and pops and the rising number of specialty shops, politically to participate in local self-governance from homeowners to town councils. In those ways, people might be able to turn the world back upright where the social order/buffer is more local and organized around subsidiarity. It's not what the thread is about but what good is cultural criticism without some corrective suggestion?
    It's important to remember that corrective suggestions are in fact just suggestions. They aren't blueprints for the future. They are just a way of allowing people to envision alternatives and to think differently about our way of life and where we're going.
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Yes. There is no argument that at least materially that isn't so.

    Next time, though, raise your hand.
    "Pure" capitalism is term people use to pretend that any problems associated with capitalism come from somewhere else. Of course the socialists do the same thing with "pure" communism as a way disassociating communism from its historical manifestions.
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    It's important to remember that corrective suggestions are in fact just suggestions. They aren't blueprints for the future. They are just a way of allowing people to envision alternatives and to think differently about our way of life and where we're going.
    True, since blueprints, in the form of all those great thinkers, are what got us here. A more conservative approach would take small, prudent steps and observe the effects, then make more small adjustments.

    Getting people to step outside the milieu we're in and look at it differently is, apparently, not an easy thing!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    just a way of allowing people to envision alternatives and to think differently about our way of life and where we're going.
    I engaged in an activity as such last night
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    You are a cheese head stupid mfer. Im sorry i like anything where conformity is its owm reward . I could dam cry
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    "Pure" capitalism is term people use to pretend that any problems associated with capitalism come from somewhere else. Of course the socialists do the same thing with "pure" communism as a way disassociating communism from its historical manifestions.

    Ah.

    Capitalism put children in the workhouses of 19th Century England.

    How terrible. Work has always been an awful problem for capitalism.

    Without capitalism there would have been no awful workhouses.

    So no work.

    However.

    England had been going through a population growth spurt.

    Without the workhouses there would have been no jobs for the children and thus no food for them.

    They would have DIED.

    Dying was a standard problem of not-capitalism.


    We are all aware that pure socialism leads to the murders of hundreds of millions of people, aren't we?
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