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Originally posted by frazzle
The point you seem to be missing is the source of capital. Money has no preference as to how its used or what its called, it’s just a tool and can be used to create any form of government or commerce.
Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by frazzle
The point you seem to be missing is the source of capital. Money has no preference as to how its used or what its called, it’s just a tool and can be used to create any form of government or commerce.
The source of capital has nothing to do with our original discussion.
No matter how hard you argue capitalism is the disease, 'banksters' are a symptom of that disease. Just like corporatism, outsourcing, wage slavery, recessions, unemployment, poverty etc.
Without capitalism there would be no 'banksters'. It takes a capitalist economy for a minority class to make enough wealth that it can dominate the economy, that is where the 'banksters' money comes from. The capitalist economy is the original source of the banksters capital.
www.philadelphia-reflections.com...
Congress (with difficulty) agreed to permit a private company (Morris) to engage in commerce, but would never have tolerated the government doing so. When the goal is to transfer money from the private sector to the public one, the public insists on the ability to limit the amount. Otherwise, the transfer is a confiscation.
War Communism had six principles:
1) Production should be run by the state. Private ownership should be kept to the minimum. Private houses were to be confiscated by the state.
2) State control was to be granted over the labour of every citizen.
3) The state should produce everything in its own undertakings. The state tried to control the activities of millions of peasants.
4) Extreme centralisation was introduced. The economic life of the area controlled by the Bolsheviks was put into the hands of just a few organisations. The Commissariat of Agriculture controlled what the peasants did.
5) The state attempted to become the soul distributor as well as the sole producer. The Commissariats took what they needed to meet demands.
6) War Communism attempted to abolish money as a means of exchange. The Bolsheviks wanted to go over to a system of a natural economy in which all transactions were carried out in kind. Effectively, bartering would be introduced. By 1921, the value of the rouble had dropped massively and inflation had markedly increased.
Originally posted by doug r
Protesting Spanish Cops: "Forgive Us For Not Arresting Those Truly Responsible For This Crisis: Bankers & Politicians"
www.zerohedge.com...
several thousand Spanish policemen took the streets of Madrid protesting the latest round of austerity, which included frozen pensions and the elimination of the Christmas bonus
Originally posted by doug r
Protesting Spanish Cops: "Forgive Us For Not Arresting Those Truly Responsible For This Crisis: Bankers & Politicians"
www.zerohedge.com...
Originally posted by SimonPeter
reply to post by EarthCitizen07
Move to North Korea you will love it .
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by doug r
Protesting Spanish Cops: "Forgive Us For Not Arresting Those Truly Responsible For This Crisis: Bankers & Politicians"
www.zerohedge.com...
You cannot arrest someone unless first you have a warrant. Arresting someone on the spot means something happened in the eyes of the cops and arrests were necessary.
The state will never arrest the people who finance it unless they are pressured to the point where they have no choice. White collar crime is seldom punished because they people exert huge influence in society and can almost always buy their way out. Arresting people who steal candy or piss in the streets is much easier....
It is amazing how little respect the media and government have for the people anymore. Even dogs get better treatment. They assume most people are dumb, so feed them anything and all is well...
Originally posted by SimonPeter
reply to post by ANOK
There will always be the Elite . You must not have anything or rely on other people to support you . Yes the Elite Banksters are having their way with us . I'm sure that you will be pleased when those same Banksters do take away our freedoms , put us under their form of socialism / communisum and tell you what and when you can do it . That is if you make it through the population reduction .
Originally posted by doug r
A single person or entity owning the product of a population's labor is feudalism.
1. The end of the High Middle Ages
"Capitalism was not, by any means, a "free market" evolving naturally or peacefully from the civilization of the high Middle Ages. As Oppenheimer argued, capitalism as a system of class exploitation was a direct successor to feudalism, and still displays the birth scars of its origins in late feudalism...
So RIGHT NOW, the banks own the equivalent of one year of EVERYBODY's labor in the US.