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As opposed to capitalist countries where things are falling apart?
I take it you haven't looked at Detroit lately. Or New Orleans. Or out your front door.
Will The Banksters And The Corpocracy Eventually Own It All? 29 Statistics About Extreme Income Inequality In America That Will Blow Your Mind
...Over the past several decades, those with huge amounts of money and power have been busy
rigging the game so that the rest of the money and power slowly but surely funnels into their hands.... Today, the big banks, the big corporations and the federal government are all in bed with one another and it is average Americans that always lose out.....
[THIS IS THE SIGNIFICANT STATISTIC: cv]
#1 In the United States today, the richest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.....
It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvements and freed the genius of reformers and innovators from the straitjackets of the guilds, government tutelage, and social pressure of various kinds....
None of the great modern inventions would have been put to use if the mentality of the pre-capitalistic era had not been throughly demolished by the economists. What is commonly called the "Industrial Revolution" was an offspring of the ideological revolution brought about by the doctrines of the economists. The economists exploded the old tenets that it is unjust and unfair to outdo a competitor by producing better and cheaper goods....
...Deluded by Marxian myths they consider modern industrialism an outcome of mysterious "productive forces" that do not depend in anyway way on ideological factors.... Hence the abolition of capitalism... [As I said capitalism is dead cv]
What is called "Orthodox" economics is in most countries barred from the universities and is virtually unknown to the leading statesmen, politicians and writers. The blame for the unsatisfactory state of economics affairs can certainly not be placed upon a science which rulers and masses despise and ignore... HUMAN ACTION: A treatise on Economics (1949)
New World Encyclopedia - Organizing knowledge for happiness, prosperity and world peace.
Fabian Society
The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means....
London School of Economics
Four Fabians, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw founded the London School of Economics with money left to the Fabian Society, including a bequest of £20,000 by Henry Hutchinson....
The LSE was established to further the Fabian aim of bettering society, focusing on research on issues of poverty, inequality and related issues. This led the Fabians, and the LSE, to be one of the main influences on the UK Labour Party.[4]
The school was founded with the initial intention of renewing the training of Britain's political and business elite...
LSE in this sense must be looked at as the father of modern economics studies. Under Beveridge, Friedrich Hayek was appointed as a professor and he brought about the ascendancy of the LSE through his famous debates with John Maynard Keynes. The famed Keynes-Hayek debates which occurred between Cambridge and the LSE still shapes the two major schools of economic thought today as nations still debate the merits of the welfare state versus an economy solely controlled by the market. LSE's influence upon modern economics is undeniable since it both formed the very basis for economic thought as well as shaped modern perception of free market economics. Hayek's works continue to influence the study of economics across the globe. At the other extreme, during these years Harold Joseph Laski, a professor of political science at the LSE was influential in British politics as an advocate of far left policies. Many renowned world leaders including John F. Kennedy studied under his guidance at the LSE....
Anthony Giddens, the former director of the LSE, was the creator of the 'Third Way' followed by both Tony Blair (who unveiled the Fabian Window at LSE in 2005) and Bill Clinton. His policy created a balance between the traditional welfare state and the belief in total free market economics. This policy is being put into effect by governments all across the world as free market economies continue to deal with wealth inequalities and bettering the welfare of the general population...
If we force them to take personal responsibility for the damage they've caused, you call that theft.
Originally posted by woodwardjnr
Yes the Ayn Rand philosophies are quite prominent around these parts. Shame it's these same philosophies that caused the financial meltdown. Also Ayan Rand relied on the state in her later years.
Ayn Rand philosophies did not "cause" the "financial meltdown". What causes financial meltdown is the same thing that has been causing it since thousands of years: Making too much debt.
Originally posted by beezzer
If I may add, as a parallel, when you have given away all your stars and flags to people who don't know how to earn them, you're left wth a society with a few scattered stars and flags with no-one having the drive to earn them, just waiting for another handout.
We're forcing them to take a social responsibility for their actions. That's the term that scares beezer. Instilling personal responsibility in people is all well and good, but social responsibility is something everyone needs to understand and practice as well.....
...Under Münzenberg's direction, hundreds of groups, committees and publications cynically used and manipulated the devout radicals of the West.
Most of this army of workers in what Münzenberg called 'Innocents' Clubs' had no idea they were working for Stalin. They were led to believe that they were advancing the cause of a sort of socialist humanism. The descendants of the 'Innocents' Clubs' are still hard at work in our universities and colleges. Every year a new cohort of impressionable students join groups like the Anti-Nazi League believing them to be benign opponents of oppression, rather than the Trotskyite fronts they really are.
The old tricks certainly are the best! www.heretical.com...
Attacks on Intelligentsia: Early Attacks
In the years immediately following their accession to power in 1917, the Bolsheviks took measures to prevent challenges to their new regime, beginning with eliminating political opposition....
Bolshevik policy toward its detractors, and particularly toward articulate, intellectual criticism, hardened considerably. Suppression of newspapers, initially described as a temporary measure, became a permanent policy. Lenin considered the Constitutional Democrats (Kadets) the center of a conspiracy against Bolshevik rule. In 1919, he began mass arrests of professors and scientists who had been Kadets, and deported Kadets, Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, and Nationalists. The Bolshevik leadership sought rapidly to purge Russia of past leaders in order to build the future on a clean slate.
These harsh measures alienated a large number of the intellectuals who had supported the overthrow of the tsarist order. The suppression of democratic institutions evoked strong protests from academics and artists,who felt betrayed in their idealistic belief that revolution would bring a free society..... www.ibiblio.org...
I never met Pol Pot, but I saw examples of his handiwork....
...children who had escaped from mobile work units drew pictures of their experiences: soldiers plunging bayonets into pregnant women tied to trees, or plucking out a captive's liver with a specially devised hook....
Ty Kim Seng [less than ten yrs old?cv]... disobeyed orders, went off in search of food and came across a mass grave of 30 bodies. To punish him, soldiers tied him to a bamboo pole and left him to starve for days....
People who wore glasses also were killed because it was assumed they could read.... www.time.com...
After 90 days of unemployment insurance, all assistance will come to a screeching halt. If the unemployed person can't find a job during those 90 days, he will have to enroll in public works programs which might be anywhere in the country and work on some large public projects, like building football stadiums or dams and cleaning sewers. The work will be done under police supervision. SOURCE
“Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well.”
The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, 1928, pg. 470)
“The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.”
“On the Rocks” (1933), Preface
The Real George Bernard Shaw
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Id have no qualms about giving my stars and flags away if the socialist mind thinks its so damn important that I do so. Im not particularly attached to them. I did not steal them, I got them in exchange for providing value.
Originally posted by crimvelvet
It is an excuse for enforcing "Collectivism" where "the group" that is THE GOVERNMENT, is more important than the individual. Once you allow this concept to hold sway it can lead to all sorts of atrocities all in the name of "Protecting the Group."
After 90 days of unemployment insurance, all assistance will come to a screeching halt. If the unemployed person can't find a job during those 90 days, he will have to enroll in public works programs which might be anywhere in the country and work on some large public projects, like building football stadiums or dams and cleaning sewers. The work will be done under police supervision. esbalogh.typepad.com...
The Transatlantic Economic Council
The Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) is one of the most recent additions to the existing set of transatlantic institutions. The TEC, established by Section IV of the Framework for Advancing Transatlantic Economic Integration between the United States of America and the European Union, was signed on April 30, 2007 by U.S. President George W. Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (the then President of the European Council), and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
The TEC was established to harmonize the EU and the US...
At the October 27th, 2009 TEC meeting, the group was charged with continuing their efforts in support of transatlantic cooperation. This TEC meeting will be focused on topics related to regulatory cooperation, intellectual property rights, secure trade, and financial markets.
As opportunities and threats increasingly manifest themselves at a transnational level, the need to strengthen global governance continues to grow. The potential benefits of deeper international economic integration - as well as the challenges posed by the financial crisis, demographic shifts, terrorism, rising powers, and climate change - are prompting new efforts to shape global frameworks. Decisions to strengthen the G-20, refocus the G-8, reform the IMF, extend NATO's functional and geographic reach, expand the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and combat climate change through the UN are only the most recent developments aimed at achieving this goal.
At the Streit Council, we support the continued integration of advanced democracies as one of the long-term foundations for more effective global governance....
SEC. 404. COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.
Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.
www.fda.gov...
Originally posted by Janky Red
I bet I can create a faux identity and triple my "value" in a month by echoing what people want to hear.
Anyone want to take me up on that bet?
I say this sums up the corporatist conservative position just as well...
We protect the group, it is just a different group, that thrives on private collectism.
I say this sums up the corporatist conservative position just as well...
We protect the group, it is just a different group, that thrives on private collectism.