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"The people" are always government. That's why it sucks to high heaven.
When have you last been forced to trade?
Those were sovereign countries they invaded and imprisoned, dipshit.The Russians dropped the Iron Curtain in order to prevent western capitalists from invading their homeland as had happened twice in the 20th century.
Those were sovereign countries they invaded and imprisoned, dipshit.
Liberated, my ass. We liberated France. We gave them their country back.I am not at all a fan of the USSR, but they did have a value excuse for being a little paranoid and wanting not only a buffer, but economic allies.
They did not "invade" the Warsaw Pact countries, but liberated them from the Fascists.
To the Germans, these countries were just Lebensraum. ( the territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany. )
If and when the people are government, then government can't have too much power.
Since when has any trade been voluntary?
First there was feudalism, then imperialism, colonialism, monopolies, illegal trusts, slavery, etc.
If and when the people are government, then government can't have too much power.
Since when has any trade been voluntary?
First there was feudalism, then imperialism, colonialism, monopolies, illegal trusts, slavery, etc.
You mean fascism.When I say "democratic control" I mean public regulation designed to enhance long term economic goals that benefit the 99% of Americans instead of the short term speculation favored by brokers, bankers, investors, and capital markets. How much more economic inequality do you think this country needs?
Since when has any trade been voluntary?
Those were sovereign countries they invaded and imprisoned, dipshit.
They did not "invade" the Warsaw Pact countries, but liberated them from the Fascists.
The people are never the government. That's a fantasy.
All trade is voluntary. Otherwise, it's not trade.
without money you have zero freedom try taking a vacation or doing anything when your ass is brokehttps://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fil...-_is_capitalism_compatible_with_democracy.pdf
"Capitalism and democracy follow different logics: unequally distributed property rights on the one hand, equal civic and political rights on the other; profit oriented trade within capitalism in contrast to the search for the common good within democracy; debate, compromise and majority decision-making within democratic politics versus hierarchical decision-making by managers and capital owners.
"Capitalism is not democratic, democracy not capitalist.
"During the first postwar decades, tensions between the two were moderated through the socio-political embedding of capitalism by an interventionist tax and welfare state.
"Yet, the financialization of capitalism since the 1980s has broken the precarious capitalist-democratic compromise."
Reagan's tax cuts facilitated low interest rates and financial bubbles to promote US financial expansion by making real estate speculation and junk-bond corporate takeovers effectively exempt from income taxation.
This set in motion a chain-reaction of asset price inflation that is still polarizing this economy today.
The primary mode of accumulation has become financial, enabling investment bankers to replace government planners.
the new deal did nothing but world war 2 ended the depression dumbassThe New Deal created the greatest middle class in history after capitalism collapsed the global economy in 1929. Central planning won both world wars in the 20th century. By early 2020 when the MAGA pandemic first began shutting down the world economy, 87 million US residents lacked adequate healthcare and 40% could not afford an unexpected $400 expense.
In the richest country in history 40 million people were poor, half of all workers lived paycheck to paycheck, and 12% of the population had experienced food insecurity at some point during the preceding year.
That's what capitalism does.
It consolidates wealth in fewer and fewer hands with each passing generation.
Only slaves call that freedom.
You mean fascism.
They were enslaved for their own good.
Russia still doesn't understand why they all wanted to join NATO.
Liberated the shit out of them, eh comrade?
They preferred the Soviets to the Nazis.
The Russians eventually removed all controls, once they were less paranoid.
At one point the Russians thought the US was going to attack them as well.
They just wanted a buffer and a means of resisting future attacks.
