On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:23 AM, francisco albano <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Platt: > > There is a huge difference between dictators and capitalists. Capitalists > > can't round up dissidents and send them to death camps. > > John Carl: > > I disagree. Russia seems to have had absolutely no trouble switching > economic systems from Communism to Capitalism while maintaining the same > sorts of authoritarian social controls. And couldn't you look at the US's > recent record as to detention and torture and admit that not every singe > person killed by our guns and our planes is a non-innocent? In some > situations and for a certain time, Capitalism seems to be more efficient as > an economic system than communism. > The authoritarian controls you refer to are government controls enforced at the point of a gun. Corporations have no such legal power. > > > Paco: > The capitalist class can round up dissidents and send them to death camps > (and/or equivalents) because it has a State (as instrument of oppression) it > controls and wields. There is a dictatorship of the Capitalist Class, just > as there is a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. More, the capitalist class > has its organic intellects (in the Gramscian sense), paid or unpaid, who > wittingly or unwittingly support its low quality ideology, economic > strategies and tactics, and political and military structures of > oppression. In Russia the revisionist Communist Party is a capitalist party. > The system has to be exposed and opposed.DQ will triumph in the end. IMO, of > course. > > > May Yahweh bless you and keep you! > May Yahweh let his face shine on you, and be gracious to you! > May Yahweh look kindly on you, and give you his peace! (Num. 6:24-26) > > > . > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
