Capitalism

[Pharaoh]

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[socialist_n_TN]

1. Yep. Or........

ITSS. It's the system stupid.

[OceanEcosystem]

2. Enslavement exists under other economic systems as well. N/t.

[JaneyVee]

3. Such as?

[OceanEcosystem]

4. Soviet labor camps, when the USSR still existed. Look it up.

[white_wolf]

6. Regarding the USSR:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism

[JaneyVee]

7. True, but those labor camps are just EXTREME capitalism.

[white_wolf]

8. The USSR was, in my opinion, a form of capitalilsm.

It was state Capitalism. The government acted as a capitalist as opposed to private investors, but it was not socialism.

[JaneyVee]

10. Exactly. And cheap labor with no workers rights sounds familiar to a certain political party here in

The US. We have a political party here that advocates AGAINST higher wages, against healthcare, against education, and against workers rights. That would lead exactly to THAT type of economy.

[Recursion]

14. All of them, pretty much

I'm trying to think of an economic system that didn't have slavery, and I'm coming up blank.

[JaneyVee]

15. Paying a living wage would greatly help U.S. capitalism lose its 'slavery' stigma.

Not destroying collective bargaining also.

[Cal Carpenter]

5. K & R

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9. This should be at the top of the greatest threads -

why folks have such a hard time understanding it is beyond me. K&R

[socialist_n_TN]

11. And that's the reason you can't compromise with capitalism......

BECAUSE you're praised for your good business sense. Even a so-called "good" capitalist can't compete by being a good human being.

[Mnemosyne]

12. K&R nt

[craigmatic]

13. Only democratic socialism can save us all from these greedy bankers and these evil corporations.

Sometimes I wish the working class would rise up in arms though even though I know that it'll never happen.