On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:17 PM, chazwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Jan 20, 7:16 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. > > As a phenomenon it is highly misunderstood and applied for dubious > political purposes. On another Newsgroup I was shocked to see this > statement in response to my accusation that the writer had no idea > what socialism was except as a thing to be destroyed to protect us all > from evil. > "I take socialism to be the opposite of capitalism. Capitalism is a > social system based on respect for individual liberty. Socialism is a > social system based on lack of respect for individual liberty. " > (I shit you not!) > This is unbelievable that anyone could have such a stilted view point. > Capitalism is not a social system, but a description of an economic > process. > It all started when we were taught about the United Soviet SOCIALIST Republic, AKA The Dirty Commies... ;) As someone who's lived both here, and in many Socialist countries, I think we could use a healthy dash of Socialism at home, particularly in the areas of Education and Healthcare. > Performance targets? Tracking? Key Skills? Transferable Skills? CPD? > Evidence based performance related target? BS? Mangement Speak? > > I believe I can create some effective 3-6 month trending reports which will help visualize the KPI in question. The data is indisputable. Metrics don't lie. Of course, the people presenting them do... > 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- > > (See above!) > > > 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? > > Yes there is a place called Utopia. Get your one way tickets! > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
