FindersKeepers (11-27-2020)
They only have what they take, but society, the working class is waking up and will stop allowing them and people like you from exploiting and abusing the labor of others. The more advanced production technology gets, the more power consumers have to produce whatever they need and want. The present dependence on private for profit enterprises for producing goods and services, will be overcome with advanced technology and more democracy. Are you a champion of freedom? Because if you claim to be a lover of liberty and freedom, why do you defend a system that enslaves people to a dictatorial, authoritarian workplace, 8 to 12 hours daily? We can do much better than capitalism, and that's called socialism. It's coming, whether you like it or not. The transition is either going to be peaceful or violent (choose), but it will occur in the not to distant future. I give it at the very most another 25 years, before we're living in a socialist economy and nation, where the public good is in command, rather than private profits.
Your flippant dismissal of everything I'm saying, by calling it "BS" doesn't make it BS. Go ahead and defend your primitive, exploitative capitalist system, by presenting some arguments. Just coming here and spewing your cheap rhetoric about socialist being "lazy" and wanting "handouts", when you're claiming to be a member of a class that leeches off other people's hard labor, is quite pathetic. Unlike you, I don't laugh when one of my opponents says something stupid or propagates BS, I confront it. So rather than waving your hand and pretending everything I said is wrong, why don't you actually present an argument in defense of your position?
Last edited by RefutingInfidels; 11-27-2020 at 02:58 AM.
Capitalism is alive and well.
The relationship is the opposite, Robert Reich: The Answer Isn’t Socialism; It’s Capitalism that Better Spreads the Benefits of the Productivity Revolution.
Capitalism is creative/destructive and would do better without bailouts. Let the busts weed out the losers.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Social programs are not socialism.
Your Richard Wolff--you should listen to him--explains socialism as merely an extension of capitalism where the workers take ownership of the means of production. Let us know when that happens.
Socialism will never get a foothold in American, saw its heyday around 1919 with Eugene Debs. Since then the purists like you have flailed about while the practical socialists have been given those social programs you mistakenly call socialist. See Daniel Bell, Marxian socialism in the United States.
Communism will never happen because the rich and powerful elites who run socialism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, never give up power.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Peter1469 (11-27-2020)
FindersKeepers (11-27-2020)