Capitalism is...Slavery; Democracy is Not

[georgephillip]

Confused about the fundamental conflicts regarding proper distribution of power?

"Listen, for example, to liberal economist Lester Thurow who writes that 'democracy and capitalism have very different beliefs about the proper distribution of power.

"'One believes in a completely equal distribution of political power, "one man [sic] one vote," while the other believes that it is the duty of the economically fit to drive the unfit out of business and into extinction. "Survival of the fittest" and inequalities in purchasing power are what capitalist efficiency is all about.

"'Individual profit comes first and firms become efficient to be rich. To put it in its starkest form, capitalism is perfectly compatible with slavery. Democracy is not.'"

Capitalism and Democracy Don't Mix Very Well ::: International Endowment for Democracy

 

[Mr. H.]

Without competition, capitalism would not flourish.
It serves little to no purpose for "the economically fit to drive the unfit out of business and into extinction".

 

[The T]

Confused about the fundamental conflicts regarding proper distribution of power?

"Listen, for example, to liberal economist Lester Thurow who writes that 'democracy and capitalism have very different beliefs about the proper distribution of power.

"'One believes in a completely equal distribution of political power, "one man [sic] one vote," while the other believes that it is the duty of the economically fit to drive the unfit out of business and into extinction. "Survival of the fittest" and inequalities in purchasing power are what capitalist efficiency is all about.

"'Individual profit comes first and firms become efficient to be rich. To put it in its starkest form, capitalism is perfectly compatible with slavery. Democracy is not.'"

Capitalism and Democracy Don't Mix Very Well ::: International Endowment for Democracy

Democracy in it's purest form is MOB RULE...

You have very little concept of human nature and incentive, do you?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

If we lived in a pure democracy, minorities would not have rights.

 

[lehr]

Confused about the fundamental conflicts regarding proper distribution of power?

"Listen, for example, to liberal economist Lester Thurow who writes that 'democracy and capitalism have very different beliefs about the proper distribution of power.

"'One believes in a completely equal distribution of political power, "one man [sic] one vote," while the other believes that it is the duty of the economically fit to drive the unfit out of business and into extinction. "Survival of the fittest" and inequalities in purchasing power are what capitalist efficiency is all about.

"'Individual profit comes first and firms become efficient to be rich. To put it in its starkest form, capitalism is perfectly compatible with slavery. Democracy is not.'"

Capitalism and Democracy Don't Mix Very Well ::: International Endowment for Democracy

socialism is slavery of the working class - capitalism sux - but it is the best thing going - we r not a democracy - we r a republic ! our republic sucks too - but it is the best thing going !

 

[Charles_Main]

Pure Democracy is nothing more than Mob Rule. Ask the blacks how they would have liked this country being a Pure Democracy back when the Civil War had happened. My guess is they would not have.

 

[bripat9643]

You spew more obvious horseshit than any other libturd in this forum. I could spend all day ridiculing your absurd theories, but there really isn't a need for it. No one could possibly swallow such nonsense.

Confused about the fundamental conflicts regarding proper distribution of power?

"Listen, for example, to liberal economist Lester Thurow who writes that 'democracy and capitalism have very different beliefs about the proper distribution of power.

"'One believes in a completely equal distribution of political power, "one man [sic] one vote," while the other believes that it is the duty of the economically fit to drive the unfit out of business and into extinction. "Survival of the fittest" and inequalities in purchasing power are what capitalist efficiency is all about.

"'Individual profit comes first and firms become efficient to be rich. To put it in its starkest form, capitalism is perfectly compatible with slavery. Democracy is not.'"

Capitalism and Democracy Don't Mix Very Well ::: International Endowment for Democracy

 

[The T]

If we lived in a pure democracy, minorities would not have rights.

Absolutely. If you didn't like a law, a rule? Heck with it...take a vote among the assembled, and take matters into your own hands...problem solved...right?

 

[Mad Scientist]

Article is from the International Endowment for Democracy. Sounds innocent enough, who are they? From the "Who We Are" page:
Who We Are ::: I.E.D. Officers ::: International Endowment for Democracy

Honorary Chairman: Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal

OP negged!

 

[LordBrownTrout]

If we lived in a pure democracy, minorities would not have rights.

Absolutely. If you didn't like a law, a rule? Heck with it...take a vote among the assembled, and take matters into your own hands...problem solved...right?

And the founders knew this. That's why they adopted and melded a system in which this wouldn't occur, a republic.

 

[The T]

If we lived in a pure democracy, minorities would not have rights.

Absolutely. If you didn't like a law, a rule? Heck with it...take a vote among the assembled, and take matters into your own hands...problem solved...right?

And the founders knew this. That's why they adopted and melded a system in which this wouldn't occur, a republic.

And Rule of Law...not of men...or whatever happened to be on the hit parade at the moment...and they made it difficult to change things on purpose.

 

[Charles_Main]

Absolutely. If you didn't like a law, a rule? Heck with it...take a vote among the assembled, and take matters into your own hands...problem solved...right?

And the founders knew this. That's why they adopted and melded a system in which this wouldn't occur, a republic.

And Rule of Law...not of men...or whatever happened to be on the hit parade at the moment...and they made it difficult to change things on purpose.

Which is also why according to our founders our rights, and laws come from GOD!! Not that I am a believer or anything, but the idea was if our rights came from GOD, then no mere man could ever take them away from us.

 

[The T]

And the founders knew this. That's why they adopted and melded a system in which this wouldn't occur, a republic.

And Rule of Law...not of men...or whatever happened to be on the hit parade at the moment...and they made it difficult to change things on purpose.

Which is also why according to our founders are rights, and laws come from GOD!! Not that I am a believer or anything, but the idea was if our rights came from GOD, then no mere man could ever take them away from us.

Exactly. And thus the Enumerated Rights... And many refused to sign onto the Constitution unless it was spelled out...

 

[bripat9643]

And the founders knew this. That's why they adopted and melded a system in which this wouldn't occur, a republic.

That came to an end when Lincoln ended the rights of state nullification and secession by invading the Southern States.

 

[The T]

The Founders left little if any to chance save that they prayed that future generations would be familiar with what they were given, and fight like Hell to keep it.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Just curious, for the sake of argument, what would the US look like if there were no capitalism at all?

 

[The T]

And the founders knew this. That's why they adopted and melded a system in which this wouldn't occur, a republic.

That came to an end when Lincoln ended the rights of state nullification and secession by invading the Southern States.

You mean the 9th and 10th Amendments are null and void by executive action alone...witout being justly amended? What a perplexing state of affairs, no?

 

[The T]

Just curious, for the sake of argument, what would the US look like if there were no capitalism at all?

Replace 'capitalism' with 'economic liberty'

 

[LordBrownTrout]

And the founders knew this. That's why they adopted and melded a system in which this wouldn't occur, a republic.

That came to an end when Lincoln ended the rights of state nullification and secession by invading the Southern States.

Lincoln was moreless, a tyrant. He suspended habeas corpus, arrested his opposition, denied the rights of citizens that he was sworn to protect, closed courts by force, closed newspapers.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Just curious, for the sake of argument, what would the US look like if there were no capitalism at all?

Replace 'capitalism' with 'economic liberty'

Is that code speak for third world crap hole?