Raoul_Luke
"Wait, it's all Marxism?" "Always has been."
This silly notion that war is an essential component of capitalism. THIS:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/28/style/virtual-reality-porn.html
Is capitalism. It is the production of something that some people want. Nobody (but the war mongerers who get rich from supplying the arms) "wants" war. It is not fulfilling the desires of consumers in any way shape or form. The extent to which some business people embrace war spending as a way to grow their enterprise notwithstanding. Again, it's not producing a "marketable" good or service and to the extent that business people turn to it to make a profit isn't "capitalism."
Which is why failed leaders like FDR, George W. Bush and Barack Obama embrace it as a means to improve their economic legacy - because it can be shoved down the people's throat when all their big government efforts to "fix" their weak economies fail. War is the last refuge of failed Keynesians - not (free market) capitalists!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/28/style/virtual-reality-porn.html
Is capitalism. It is the production of something that some people want. Nobody (but the war mongerers who get rich from supplying the arms) "wants" war. It is not fulfilling the desires of consumers in any way shape or form. The extent to which some business people embrace war spending as a way to grow their enterprise notwithstanding. Again, it's not producing a "marketable" good or service and to the extent that business people turn to it to make a profit isn't "capitalism."
Which is why failed leaders like FDR, George W. Bush and Barack Obama embrace it as a means to improve their economic legacy - because it can be shoved down the people's throat when all their big government efforts to "fix" their weak economies fail. War is the last refuge of failed Keynesians - not (free market) capitalists!
