May 8, 2008: It appears that in the current Democrat Primary climate, Senator Obama will be the party's presidential nominee, and there's a good chance, at this time, that Obama could win the... Read More
Posted by: jchernic on 2008-05-08 07:37:18
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Capital is divided into (1) material capital, and (2) human capital. Unlike material capital, human capital cannot be bought or sold, except in the case of slavery, according to current... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-04-19 20:57:15
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Capitalism does not supply all that people need. Capitalism cannot supply all that people need.  Capitalist societies do have starvation.  The best that capitalist societies... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-04-19 10:30:43
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Taking away the right of direct producers to own firsthand what they have directly produced has made it very easy to bring about the modern system of capitalism. Anti-socialists and... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-23 18:05:27
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The profit motive is not my criterion of success.  The capitalist criterion of success is an optimal maximization of profit. But, the subjective motive is not an objective measure.... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-23 17:55:46
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Capitalism is the ideological expression of the bourgeois concern for establishing political and economic conditions necessary for, or conducive to, the wealth of nations and of... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-23 17:37:11
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There are ideological capitalists who believe that the United States and the other fully-developed industrial, or post-industrial, capitalist nations have adopted, or adapted, some of the... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-23 17:25:15
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The history of modern capitalism begins with the enforced land enclosures that left many people without common land, driving the propertyless into wage-labor forms of employment on the... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-23 09:15:39
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We already have a material solution to the problem of material scarcity, thanks to capitalism's own encouragement of industrial development and of technological progress. Of course,... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-18 10:25:33
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Capitalism is not about universal prosperity, unless this can serve to maximize the profit-seeking needs of capital. Universal prosperity can serve to increase demand for goods, but it also... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-16 13:22:54
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Those who defend capitalism will simply respond to the latest statistics -- which say that one in eight Americans is poor -- by asserting that these statistics are embellished, exaggerated,... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-16 12:52:38
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We already have the knowledge and technology to escape subsistence and slavery; but, capitalism cannot preside over such a leap to such a new and fair beginning, to such a good and just... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-09 14:24:20
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Poverty does not lift the poor up in any morally conceivable way. Poverty dehumanizes. Docility humiliates. Capitalism makes the private proprietors into a corruptible... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-05 12:36:25
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Capitalism necessitates an authoritarian form of government. Capitalism needs a strong-arm state, a coercive and bullying state, a disciplinarian state, precisely because the majority would... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-05 12:28:41
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Like capitalism, socialism is both a political and economic system. Although authoritarian socialism certainly is abominable, democratic socialism is evidently imaginable. In... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-24 13:22:48
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Communism is not the social allocation of individually produced goods of value; rather, communism is the social allocation of collectively produced goods of value. The condition... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-23 20:59:13
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If it can be asserted that capitalism feeds, clothes, cures, and provisions workers, then it can also be asserted that slavery feeds, clothes, cures, etc. slaves. The slave's own efforts... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-18 16:55:05
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Some people claim that capitalism provides people with the goods they want.  But this is a contested, a disputed claim. If people, who need land, have no land, then capitalism... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-18 16:47:43
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If the market can be said to feed, clothe, cure, and supply us, then that is only because we live in a market arrangement; but, this does not have to mean that the market is natural, necessary,... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-18 16:44:19
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In capitalism, the products of productive labor, including capital, belong to the class of capital proprietors. In socialism/communism, the products of productive labor, including the... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-18 10:27:10
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The People's Republic of China is not a truly socialist republic.  It is more like a bourgeois liberal welfare-state. It is not a libertarian and democratic society, and so it is not a... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-17 12:23:52
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When was the United States a truly capitalist nation-state? The big difficulty in discussions of capitalism vs. socialism is that the United States is usually accused of being... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-17 11:29:50
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Really-existing laws have not been passed by a democratic majority of engaged and active citizens. Really-existing laws have been passed by corrupt legislators, who allow the wealthy to... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-17 10:58:44
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It has been labeled the "Evil Empire" and the "Scourge of Bentonville." Countless politicians and concerned groups of citizenry have attempted to derail it at nearly every level... Read More
Posted by: americanatlas on 2008-02-13 13:48:30
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For immature human beings, the threat and fear of punishment is a restraint on crimes; but, for mature human beings, the threat and fear of disrespect and disregard from others becomes a... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-10 16:55:37
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