When we capitalize on the basis necessities of humanity then we work against ourselves. To capitalize on food, basic shelter and clothing is counter productive. This is the problem I have with capitalism. People can still become wealthy within a free market capitalist system without reducing others to mere slag. When food production is halted for the sake of financial market, when homes remain empty for the sake of a financial profit while people are homeless and our children enter the world without resources and a huge inherited debt, something is seriously wrong. A basic home, sufficient food supply and basic wardrobe should be free for all. There is plenty after that to capitalize on. I'm sure people will have a better chance to become productive and self sufficient if they didn't have to worry about a place to live and where the next meal is going to come from. It's not socialism, it's the "act" of compassion. Hundreds of millions of dollars were raised last year for political campaigns, politicians who claim they want the best for the people but in essence simply only intend to support the economic system that prevails, and the bailouts are positive proof of that intention. They will never really bailout the people but only bail out the capitalist pigs. What is wrong with the picture is what is wrong with capitalism. It's rape and pillage then cast off the slag as usual.
On Jan 20, 1:16 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > I've always had trouble with "capitalism" - the word hardly appears in > Marx and I've never seen any satisfactory definitions of it as a > phenomena. I have long thought we have an entirely stupid, sick way > of doing business with each other, and that one could really only > guess this was more sick in countries without democracy and lead by > crazies and beaten with the hammer of state capitalism. > I've always had trouble with "management". Essentially, one had to > wonder how these not very bright people make themselves so valuable. > I suspect they are thieves. The Guardian is running a string of > conferences on why no one saw the current mess coming (not true - some > of us did), ending with questions about the corruption of character > underlying the mess. > I've given up teaching because I can't stand the sleaze of academe any > longer, or the pathetic cheating we have to encourage. People still > managing express concerns that honesty is long gone, but do this > quietly because they fear talking of it is career suicide. I wonder > if we have confused "capitalism" with some desire to be free of power- > freaks and somehow let it into our lives in ways we should have > resisted? Everyone is admitting in private (questionnaires etc.) that > they are routinely lying - I actually find some very confused people > in my practical examinations of organisations - and would like to > establish why I feel this is worse now than ever before in my life. I > got used to lies as a cop, but this current stuff is something else, > more like a disease. > It's pretty obvious that Enron was the key model underlying > "capitalist" activity. In a similar sense Baby P is probably not an > exception but the rule. Lying connects activity in public and private > sectors, along with brazen denials that anything is going wrong. Our > bwankers have clearly been sitting on top of one hell of a barrel of > stealing that dwarfs Enron. > I haven't heard the world stop as all this money drops from sight > under the magician's cape. I wonder if we could start again without > these parasites? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
