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xssve -> RE: Communists in Congress (4/13/2012 9:53:47 AM)
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That's sad, that the Dems felt the need to refute his claims directly, instead of simply dismissing him as being deluded. Yes, that is the sad part, but not necessarily because he's deluded - it's because so what? It's not against the law to be a communist, it's a perfectly valid viewpoint, there is nothing in the constitution that precludes a person from being a communist, or communism, capitalism could use the competition, and no real capitalist is afraid of a little competition, a good capitalist should be able to beat a good communist hands down.
i.e., maybe a communist party is just the sort of foil capitalism needs to keep it honest, otherwise, if communism's critics are not true capitalists, they must be something else.
I vote for sneaky, underhanded, corrupt, and careless with the public trust. And getting defensive about it is just abetting that by responding to fear tactics by becoming afraid.
Instead the dems should invite a few communists, if they can find any, to state their case before the American people.
It should be patently clear to anybody with a brain anyway at this point, that capitalism and socialism work systematically - socialism is hindered by it's incomplete symbiosis with capital distribution through markets by distributing according to need rather than productivity, capitalism is hindered by the fact that capital seeks capital, rather than need, and markets frequently bypass need in order to service capital.
A sustainable economy should address both, need, because that's why and economy exists to begin with, and capital because capital begets capital.
I think when you get a capital black hole like we have now, where capital isn't working - i.e., all this liquidity that banks and corporations are hoarding, after telling us all these years that capital needs to be put to work to be useful and using that as an excuse to raid pension funds and cannibalize industry and retail, what has changed? I mean other than distortions in capital apportionment in markets (to incur more debt mostly, redistribution, not capital creation) has pretty much put a big fucking hole in the bottom of everybody's boat, their own included.
i.e., if the markets cannot apportion capital where it will do the most good, then maybe we ought to discuss other ways of doing that, so that it gets done, i.e., back to wealth creation, and attendant capital formation.
A little socialism is a small price to pay to keep capitalism alive, otherwise, it's on a respirator, and China's holding the fucking plug.
It need sot be said, said and understood, we need to get past this nanny-nanner-nah-nah, yo-u're a com-mie bullshit, what are we, a bunch of fucking children?
We know neither is a panacea, we need to quit fucking around and find a synthesis that works, you have socialism all the same, the military, the penal system, national security, etc., the only thing being accomplished by not admitting that these are socialist systems and we need them - as socialist sub-systems - support structures for capitalism - is allowing a bunch of corrupt assholes to steal their tax funding to feather their own nests - and call it capitalism!
It's not, and at that point, shit - you're a fucking commie! That's what commies do!
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