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Originally posted by Flame Of Liberty@Jun 9 2005, 11:07 AM
Communist, fascist and nazi ideas have destruction, tyranny, murder and oppression at their core. One cannot say that Marx was "kind of right" and when the Soviets put his ideas into practice "it just didn’t work out." Exactly this kind of thinking shows that to this day it is not properly understood what is Marxism all about. Many people still believe that evil capitalists exploit laborers or that big profits are made at the expense of the poor. Of course, they behave accordingly (during the elections, for example), they demand socialization of the economy and whole society, because they believe socialism is at least partially right and we have to be "balanced". The result? Poverty, parasitisation and lack of freedom all over the world. Do I think that is harmful? You bet I do.
PS Nice jab DFF. Cheap, but nice.
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Capitalsim has selfishness as a core ideal. Is that evil? Capitalism often ends up as a cloaked tyranny of the rich, is that good? Big profits are made at the expense of the lower eschelon working class, do you deny that? It's pretty obvious it's the case. Capitalism has promoted sweatshops by it's very nature. With profit as the only ruling value, exploitation of workers and the environment is a natural conclusion. Government who's goal is to look after the good of the people has become corrupted by corporate self-interest.
Earth to FOL, there's problems with every system. Capitalism is not the perfect ideal that you are attempting to make it out as.
As for DFF's "jab", it would appear you've misread his intent as per his post. Not sure how you got "jab" out of that, it was clearly a joke and a funny one IMO.
You seem to be the poster most consistently out of touch with reality on this board. Congratulations, that's a fine accomplishment.