Marxism explained

[Jen]

Key thoughts:

1. Socialism is much more about hating the rich than helping the poor.

2. Just because someone gets rich it doesn't mean that someone else has to get poor.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1683949064987136

 

[georgephillip]

In case you've been asleep. crony capitalism is no longer an option.

http://socialistreview.org.uk/366/myth-crony-capitalism

"Here's where 'crony capitalism' comes in.

"This is a pejorative term which purports to describe a corrupted form of capitalism in which the owners of big businesses use their links with the state and the government to gain a decisive advantage over their competitors.

"In doing so, the argument goes, they distort the workings of the free market by preventing potentially more efficient and dynamic new firms from breaking through."

 

[Jen]

In case you've been asleep. crony capitalism is no longer an option.

http://socialistreview.org.uk/366/myth-crony-capitalism

"Here's where 'crony capitalism' comes in.

"This is a pejorative term which purports to describe a corrupted form of capitalism in which the owners of big businesses use their links with the state and the government to gain a decisive advantage over their competitors.

"In doing so, the argument goes, they distort the workings of the free market by preventing potentially more efficient and dynamic new firms from breaking through."

As soon as Marxism gets the full foothold, the Communist hammer will come down and the USA is dead. That is what Democrats are marching us toward. I hope your children enjoy the hell you are creating for them.

 

[georgephillip]

As soon as Marxism gets the full foothold, the Communist hammer will come down and the USA is dead. That is what Democrats are marching us toward. I hope your children enjoy the hell you are creating for them.

By the time Trump's crime family finishes its looting, communists won't want this country.

http://theweek.com/articles/774539/trumps-looting-america

"In short, the Trump campaign and now the Trump administration has been open to pretty much any foreign authoritarian who wants to buy the American political system.

"Neither Trump, nor his halfwit sons, nor any of his goonish hangers-on, seem to have the slightest scrap of respect for American democracy or the right of the American people to honest government.

"It's just another rigged deal, another influence play, another institution to be looted — just with an unusually large number of loyal workers to be betrayed and cut out of the spoils in the end."

 

[EatTheRich]

Key thoughts:

1. Socialism is much more about hating the rich than helping the poor.

2. Just because someone gets rich it doesn't mean that someone else has to get poor.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1683949064987136

Under capitalism, to get rich does require there to be poor people to create the wealth, because without poverty there is no risk-reward mechanism to capitalism.

 

[georgephillip]

Under capitalism, to get rich does require there to be poor people to create the wealth, because without poverty there is no risk-reward mechanism to capitalism.

As Richard Wolff puts it:

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/36662-poverty-has-always-accompanied-capitalism

"Poverty has always accompanied capitalism (as Thomas Piketty's work documents yet again).

"As an economic system, it has proven to be as successful in producing wealth at one pole as it is in producing poverty at the other. Periodic 'rediscoveries of' and campaigns against poverty have not changed that.

"Capitalism's defenders, having long promoted the system as the means to overcome both absolute and relative poverty (i.e. to be an equalizing system), now change their tune.

"They either abandon equality as a social good or goal or else try to avoid discussing poverty altogether."

Based on the past four hundred years, it would appear capitalism does not exist without war, debt, and poverty?