RadioRaheem84
13th November 2009, 01:41
OK, so far many leftists have totally discredited the philosophical assumptions of the capitalist system. If you begin at that point you can easily dismantle most capitalist arguments BUT...
Their rebuttals leave out a host of issues that are relatively untouched in today's debate.
For instance....
The CIA and the EHM (Economic Hit Men) bribe, coerce, and hinder any movement in the third world that could've led or lead to a better future for the people there. They've helped the US Government lead embargoes, manipulate currencies, squeeze economies with capital flight, lobby on behalf of multi-nationals, quell strikes. I mean the list goes on and on.
Secondly, the Western Powers also have the World Bank, IMF, the Export-Import Bank, the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, etc. to do a host of things that manipulate the world economy to their favor. They push for third world nations to get into massive debt, force structured adjustment programs to kill off their industries and then afterward promote favored corporations to set up sweatshops in the area.
They have the media that hammers it in that free enterprise is good. Government favors the interests of the capitalist class with lavish tax breaks, subsidies, welfare, charters, contracts, etc. We constantly give up more of the rights we gained after the Great Depression in favor of private power.
They've created a monster of a machine to back up their ideology. Yet, when we bring up ANY of these claims into the discussion its shut down as an unneeded distraction from the debate. So even on purely philosophical standards the leftist can dismantle their arguments, but they always seem to "win" the "reality" game by pointing to the mess socialism has made of certain nations. By eliminating the reality of the Cold War and today, they're able to infer that capitalism has triumphed because its such a sound ideology. Any mention to the media of the said above is loose conspiracy talk even though it's mainstream in the academic world!
This is how capitalism has triumphed. By lying, killing and denying the existence of the opposition. Then at home, they tell the next generation of workers that it wasn't their forefathers during the Depression that gave them mediocre prosperity, it was the free enterprise system.
And this what we do know of so far in the last 10 years of whats been revealed to us. Imagine what we don't know! Is there anything I've missed?
Their rebuttals leave out a host of issues that are relatively untouched in today's debate.
For instance....
The CIA and the EHM (Economic Hit Men) bribe, coerce, and hinder any movement in the third world that could've led or lead to a better future for the people there. They've helped the US Government lead embargoes, manipulate currencies, squeeze economies with capital flight, lobby on behalf of multi-nationals, quell strikes. I mean the list goes on and on.
Secondly, the Western Powers also have the World Bank, IMF, the Export-Import Bank, the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, etc. to do a host of things that manipulate the world economy to their favor. They push for third world nations to get into massive debt, force structured adjustment programs to kill off their industries and then afterward promote favored corporations to set up sweatshops in the area.
They have the media that hammers it in that free enterprise is good. Government favors the interests of the capitalist class with lavish tax breaks, subsidies, welfare, charters, contracts, etc. We constantly give up more of the rights we gained after the Great Depression in favor of private power.
They've created a monster of a machine to back up their ideology. Yet, when we bring up ANY of these claims into the discussion its shut down as an unneeded distraction from the debate. So even on purely philosophical standards the leftist can dismantle their arguments, but they always seem to "win" the "reality" game by pointing to the mess socialism has made of certain nations. By eliminating the reality of the Cold War and today, they're able to infer that capitalism has triumphed because its such a sound ideology. Any mention to the media of the said above is loose conspiracy talk even though it's mainstream in the academic world!
This is how capitalism has triumphed. By lying, killing and denying the existence of the opposition. Then at home, they tell the next generation of workers that it wasn't their forefathers during the Depression that gave them mediocre prosperity, it was the free enterprise system.
And this what we do know of so far in the last 10 years of whats been revealed to us. Imagine what we don't know! Is there anything I've missed?