The “belief” of the Left is that capitalism is immoral, indeed criminal, and represents exploitation of one’s fellow man. It is, in fact, the cause of such evils as war, slavery, oppression, and every variety of human misery.
You are saying it is not?
Big corporations making moves under the guise of "capitalism" to put their competitor out of business is not immoral?
Private companies making money off of prisons is not exploiting a bad situation?
Welcome to the board, you ignorant dolt. You've come to the right place for re-education.
Of course it is not evil.
It is consistent with human nature, a fact of which the Left is ignorant.
1. "Marxism rested on the assumption that the condition of the working classes would grow ever worse under capitalism, that there would be but two classes: one small and rich, the other vast and increasingly impoverished, and revolution would be the anodyne that would result in the “common good.” But by the early 20th century, it was clear that this assumption was completely wrong!
Under capitalism, the standard of living of all was improving: prices falling, incomes rising, health and sanitation improving, lengthening of life spans, diets becoming more varied, the new jobs created in industry paid more than most could make in agriculture, housing improved, and middle class industrialists and business owners displaced nobility and gentry as heroes."
From a speech by Rev. Robert A. Sirico, President, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.
Delivered at Hillsdale College, October 27, 2006
https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2007&month=05
2. The variety of capitalism wherein "Big corporations making moves under the guise of "capitalism" to put their competitor out of business is not immoral" is more correctly known as corporatism.
It was implemented in the fascist programs of the National Socialists in Germany, the Fascists in Italy, and the New Dealers in the United States.
a. One of those urban myths is that the Left battles big business on behalf of the ‘little guy’….those greedy ‘robber barons!’ Of course, as is true of so many ‘truths’….it is false.
The actuality is that big business knows that the greatest threat is not government or its regulation, but competition with smaller, more innovative firms. So, when the opportunity arises to cooperate with government in crafting new regulation, big business lobbyists, rather than opposing ‘reform,’ they write the laws for their own advantages!
b. The propaganda of the New Deal (“malefactors of great wealth”) to the contrary, FDR simply endeavored to re-create the corporatism of the last war.
The New Dealers invited one industry after another to write the codes under which they would be regulated. Even more aggressive, the National Recovery Administration forced industries to fix prices and in other ways to collude with one another: the NRA approved 557 basic and 189 supplementary codes, covering almost 95% of all industrial workers.
Goldberg, "Liberal Fascism"
c. New Deal bureaucrats studied Mussolini’s corporatism closely. From “Fortune” magazine: ‘T
he Corporate state is to Mussolini what the New Deal is to Roosevelt.Â’(July 1934)
