Can There Be Too Much Capitalism?

Did you know that the decree of the US President of December 13, 1941 allowed transactions, doing business with companies controlled by the nazis or their allies, unless there was a special prohibition of the US Treasury Department?
Business is business, if the rope on which you will be hanged is very expensive, then it must be sold!
 
The dehumanization is produced not so much by the fascist ideology as by its capitalist basis - through the alienation of labor, total psychological pressure and false guidelines. Fascism only perpetuates them by pointing out to the masses what they should hate instead of the ruling class.
 
The bourgeois state is an expression of the power of Capital. And the state becomes too expensive for capitalists and will be replaced. An intense search is underway. It will end with fascism or nazism. Capitalist pigs can't think of anything better without changing their nature. Of course, it will be in a glamorous wrapper and propagandized by the "free" press as the greatest achievement of democracy.
 
"The existing model of capitalism has exhausted itself" (с) V. Putin today

Only, mister Putin, there is one catch. Financial capitalism is the highest stage of capitalism.
Something else, capitalistic, cannot exist today (sorry conservatives, yours dreams of advanced capitalism of the 19th century is impossible) . But then the bourgeois wishlist should be cut, let's say, by orders of magnitude. Will the pigs agree with that?
 
The main secret of the capitalist world is that the ruling class is not afraid of political democracy in the absence of economic democracy.
 
Capitalism made progress while there was someone to rob - primarily colonies. The destruction of the USSR gave him a second wind - the markets of former socialist countries were taken away. Now capitalism is everywhere and robbing others is becoming more difficult, and you will also can be robbed. Therefore, it will only get worse.
 
When the "rear-wheel drive" transport minister of the Biden administration took a 2.5-month vacation to care for adopted twin babies, one influential trumper woman said: "Why does he need a vacation, I gave birth in our truck"
The whole agenda of the new phase of capitalism fits here...,
 
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Do you know why there is no american "lend-lease" in modern Ukraine? Because everyone already knows that this money will be stolen. The advantages of Stalinist socialism - money and funds were for the benefit of the country and the people.
In addition, the myth that all the scientific and economic achievements of the USSR were made only thanks to American "help" is also one of the anti-Soviet propaganda myths.
Who "helped" the USSR to be the first in the exploration of outer space, where science was at the most advanced level? FDR too?
German rocket scientists captured by the Russians were better "motivated" ~ produce or gulag ~ and the USSR wasn't worried about failures and bad press, since they could hide the failures and block the press=bad PR.

USSR legacy is blunt and brute force, the people be damned.
 
...where are the right-wing's better solutions at lower cost?

The left already has a solution to simple poverty and our homeless problem; equal protection of the law for unemployment compensation in our at-will employment States.

It is not a political issue but an economic issue.
Except the Left's "solutions" involve more debt, inflation, unfunded liabilities from the Federal guv'mint, and more theft of the wealth producers to those whom are wealth looters.

Capitalism at least allows for some form of incentive and reward;
Socialism/Communism operates on coercion and theft, disincentive, and collective poverty.

Classic example in the movie "Moscow on the Hudson".
 
Except the Left's "solutions" involve more debt, inflation, unfunded liabilities from the Federal guv'mint, and more theft of the wealth producers to those whom are wealth looters.

Capitalism at least allows for some form of incentive and reward;
Socialism/Communism operates on coercion and theft, disincentive, and collective poverty.

Classic example in the movie "Moscow on the Hudson".
So, are you claiming deists are simply liars for believing a potential, Commune of Heaven?
 
So, are you claiming deists are simply liars for believing a potential, Commune of Heaven?
Haven't given it much thought really, being somewhere between atheist to agnostic by most(their ~ deists) standards.

I'm inclined more towards a karma ledger concept of deeds done gaining positive or negative currency in future incarnation expression, a bit too complicated to get into now, so I'm operating in a zone~league different from most.
 
Capitalism at least allows for some form of incentive and reward;
Socialism/Communism operates on coercion and theft, disincentive, and collective poverty.

Classic example in the movie "Moscow on the Hudson".
Do you cite Hollywood films as proof? I know a LOT more films in which capitalism is denounced, including Hollywood ones. And your opinion about what socialism operates on is based on films like "Moscow on the Hudson" and other propaganda materials.
 
Do you cite Hollywood films as proof? I know a LOT more films in which capitalism is denounced, including Hollywood ones. And your opinion about what socialism operates on is based on films like "Moscow on the Hudson" and other propaganda materials.
I suggest the film for purpose of visualization of the contrasts.
My knowledge of the failure of communism(socialism) comes from many sources and experiences, most recent being my neighbor. Chala is Polish, was involved with the Solidarity movement in the 1980s. He was a "guest" of the KGB for several months during that time, and when released, it was suggested he and his family leave Poland if he didn't want to be their "guest" again.

Capitalism is denounced by the incompotent, the incapable, the lazy, and the thief; in short those whom seek to take~steal the productivity, the 'wealth' of others, rather then produce for themselves.
 
Capitalism is denounced by the incompotent, the incapable, the lazy, and the thief; in short those whom seek to take~steal the productivity, the 'wealth' of others, rather then produce for themselves.

I think that capitalism is denounced mainly by the ignorant who do not realize that their issues with capitalism are actually not exclusive to that economic model, but are instead human failings that exist in any human undertaking. They point to the greater amounts of greed, fraud, cronyism, criminality, etc. that exist with capitalism without understanding that any other economic system that exists will give less of the bad stuff but even less of the innovation and prosperity that capitalism brings. The problems that people observe about capitalism are supposed to be managed by a proper gov't; those same problems will exist under ANY form of economics, and blaming capitalism for the failures and mismanagement by the gov't is a mistake.
 
I think that capitalism is denounced mainly by the ignorant who do not realize that their issues with capitalism are actually not exclusive to that economic model, but are instead human failings that exist in any human undertaking. They point to the greater amounts of greed, fraud, cronyism, criminality, etc. that exist with capitalism without understanding that any other economic system that exists will give less of the bad stuff but even less of the innovation and prosperity that capitalism brings. The problems that people observe about capitalism are supposed to be managed by a proper gov't; those same problems will exist under ANY form of economics, and blaming capitalism for the failures and mismanagement by the gov't is a mistake.


It's one of those corollary damages of the success of capitalism: those loonies actually believe the promises of the Democrats/Leftists that they will be cosseted from cradle to grave.



Bet they don't know this:

The Court ruled that there is no contractual right to receive Social Security payments. Payments due under Social Security are not “property” rights and are not protected by the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Citations: 363 U.S. 603 (more)80 S. Ct. 1367; 4 ...

Flemming v. Nestor - Wikipedia

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Same is true for police protection.
 
It's one of those corollary damages of the success of capitalism: those loonies actually believe the promises of the Democrats/Leftists that they will be cosseted from cradle to grave.



Bet they don't know this:

The Court ruled that there is no contractual right to receive Social Security payments. Payments due under Social Security are not “property” rights and are not protected by the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Citations: 363 U.S. 603 (more)80 S. Ct. 1367; 4 ...

Flemming v. Nestor - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Flemming_v._Nestor




Same is true for police protection.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
 
I think that capitalism is denounced mainly by the ignorant who do not realize that their issues with capitalism are actually not exclusive to that economic model, but are instead human failings that exist in any human undertaking. They point to the greater amounts of greed, fraud, cronyism, criminality, etc. that exist with capitalism without understanding that any other economic system that exists will give less of the bad stuff but even less of the innovation and prosperity that capitalism brings. The problems that people observe about capitalism are supposed to be managed by a proper gov't; those same problems will exist under ANY form of economics, and blaming capitalism for the failures and mismanagement by the gov't is a mistake.
Capitalism is fine until you work for a penny and you are ruined by taxes, until you close your business and you are evicted to the street, until you die without medicines and you are sent to the oven. It's beautiful as long as you're not in danger personally. But the queue is moving.
 
Capitalism is denounced by the incompotent, the incapable, the lazy, and the thief; in short those whom seek to take~steal the productivity, the 'wealth' of others, rather then produce for themselves.
In the USA, the showcase of capitalism, more than 40 million people receive food stamps, i.e. coupons for bread, sugar, meat, etc. Americans need more capitalist market reforms to get rid of this legacy of socialism.
Arguments about deserved poverty, unemployment and social disenfranchisement of "lazy people" always end with arguments about deserved sterilization, experiments on people and the gas chamber.
In the world of private capital, the boundary between economic and direct killing is very conditional.
 
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For an idealist, capitalism is the embodiment of the spirit, so he is looking for its purest and correct version – in some countries, in the 60s, in the 90s. In fact, capitalism is a global movement of matter, where wealth creates poverty, competition creates monopolies, and imperialism creates poor countries.
 

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