Watching Capitalism Die

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Marseille.

Madame Lagarde praises Obama's stimulus package. Urges Osborne to do the same. Warren Buffet, like George Soros in the past, becomes a lender of last resort. "Quantitative Easing" is the new euphamism for a bankrupt system, the new flying buttress holding up the superstructure of Late Capitalism.

We are watching Capitalism die. The buttress cannot hold, will not hold. The red lights are flashing once again - as someone on here said they would. If anything, sooner than expected actually.

The needs of Capital can no longer be met. It is time to administer to the needs of people instead.

We live in historic times. It has seen the end of Russian Communism; it will soon see the end of American Capitalism.

What replaces them is the key question of our own historic time. How we handle the transition should be the key concern of the human race.
 
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VOLatile said:
And the rise of Norwegian Socialism????


Daydreaming...
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It's been on the decline, actually. Which is why the anger of the Right can be so frightening and terrible. It has absolutely no rational basis.

I forgot the champagne glass for the above:

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utgibbs said:
Marseille.

Madame Lagarde praises Obama's stimulus package. Urges Osborne to do the same. Warren Buffet, like George Soros in the past, becomes a lender of last resort. "Quantitative Easing" is the new euphamism for a bankrupt system, the new flying buttress holding up the superstructure of Late Capitalism.

We are watching Capitalism die. The buttress cannot hold, will not hold. The red lights are flashing once again - as someone on here said they would. If anything, sooner than expected actually.

The needs of Capital can no longer be met. It is time to administer to the needs of people instead.

We live in historic times. It has seen the end of Russian Communism; it will soon see the end of American Capitalism.

What replaces them is the key question of our own historic time. How we handle the transition should be the key concern of the human race.
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The most efficient was to care for the needs of the people is capitalism. Which by the way, is quite viable when it is allowed to function. Buying a Corvette, then putting a wheel boot on it, does not mean that a horse and carriage is faster than a 'vette.
 
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I don't understand the use of a world population chart to explain American capitalism.
 
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utgibbs said:
Marseille.

Madame Lagarde praises Obama's stimulus package. Urges Osborne to do the same. Warren Buffet, like George Soros in the past, becomes a lender of last resort. "Quantitative Easing" is the new euphamism for a bankrupt system, the new flying buttress holding up the superstructure of Late Capitalism.

We are watching Capitalism die. The buttress cannot hold, will not hold. The red lights are flashing once again - as someone on here said they would. If anything, sooner than expected actually.

The needs of Capital can no longer be met. It is time to administer to the needs of people instead.

We live in historic times. It has seen the end of Russian Communism; it will soon see the end of American Capitalism.

What replaces them is the key question of our own historic time. How we handle the transition should be the key concern of the human race.
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Capitlism has not failed, mans greed has. Look around the world nearly every country is in trouble, communists, socialist, including capitlists , the global recession has affected everyone.

The truth is a middle wage worker in America is still among the wealthiest people in the world and capitilism is the reason for it , comrade.
 
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The stupidity grounded in nothing but a broken dream of socialist utopia. Dressing it up in different clothes weekly and trotting it out disguised as something other tha stupid doesn't change the inherent silliness of the post.

And learn to spell your multisyllabic drivel if you're going to use it over and over. You'll appear less absurd, but only marginally so.
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utgibbs said:
Marseille.

Madame Lagarde praises Obama's stimulus package. Urges Osborne to do the same. Warren Buffet, like George Soros in the past, becomes a lender of last resort. "Quantitative Easing" is the new euphamism for a bankrupt system, the new flying buttress holding up the superstructure of Late Capitalism.

We are watching Capitalism die. The buttress cannot hold, will not hold. The red lights are flashing once again - as someone on here said they would. If anything, sooner than expected actually.

The needs of Capital can no longer be met. It is time to administer to the needs of people instead.

We live in historic times. It has seen the end of Russian Communism; it will soon see the end of American Capitalism.

What replaces them is the key question of our own historic time. How we handle the transition should be the key concern of the human race.
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Don't you own a business?

Doesn't that make you a two face POS who lives by one motto by feeds his family off the backs of Capital?
 
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NEOCON said:
Don't you own a business?

Doesn't that make you a two face POS who lives by one motto by feeds his family off the backs of Capital?
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The whole idea that everything should be labor driven, and not capital driven, is based on the notion of Marx's labor theory of value which asserts that the value of an object is a result of the labor that produced it. This has never made sense to me. A capitalist is basically somebody who has acquired capital through labor. Even if he no longer works, and only contributes capital while his workers contribute labor, the capital still must be rewarded heavily because at the root of it is labor. Capital is a present manifestation of past labor.
 
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NEOCON said:
Don't you own a business?

Doesn't that make you a two face POS who lives by one motto by feeds his family off the backs of Capital?
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This is why it is so important to educate the board, NEOCON. Owning a business has nothing to do with Capitalism. I'll have to start a workshop outside Neyland Stadium - utgibbs revolutionary tailgaiting - to uncover and elucidate upon the mountain of misinformation and misunderstanding on economic issues.

Then we can go watch the game - a game which required socialism to produce; socialism at its best.
 
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MUR73 said:
Capitlism has not failed, mans greed has. Look around the world nearly every country is in trouble, communists, socialist, including capitlists , the global recession has affected everyone.

The truth is a middle wage worker in America is still among the wealthiest people in the world and capitilism is the reason for it , comrade.
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Capitalism has failed many times, but it has always had room to reinvent itself. Radical transformation has always been its great strength.

Now, it has eclipsed even its now imaginary superstructure. And the great wealth redistribution - already historically polarized - has begun.

Those middle wage workers in America are seeing their living standards eroded, are seeing themselves attacked and harassed on every side, becoming the "tramautized worker" as Greenspan admitted to Congress. To keep the standards they enjoyed after WWII, they have had to work longer, and send another member of the household into the work force. This roll back is required as Capital can no longer fuel itself on even its imagination (as it has been doing certainly since Clinton destroyed the last tethers to the real world the system had constraining it), and now it is rolling back the gains of the Enlightenment.

We live in historic times. We are witnessing the impoverishment of the world through Global Heating and we are watching the impoverishment of the world through Global Capitalism. Both are dying.
 
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RespectTradition said:
The most efficient was to care for the needs of the people is capitalism. Which by the way, is quite viable when it is allowed to function. Buying a Corvette, then putting a wheel boot on it, does not mean that a horse and carriage is faster than a 'vette.
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Capitalism implodes almost immediately without a boot. It has never prospered for long without regulation. It's entire history is how to regulate it / change it during one of its many catastrophic failures. That is its entire history.

In fact, the better analogy is: is a horse and carriage faster than a Corvette that has blown up?

Answer: yes it is.
 
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We live in historic times. We have witnessed the end of Soviet Communism. We are watching (as we take a longing gaze towards Marseille) American Capitalism die. Gore Vidal loved to say we only lost the Cold War later than the Russians.

But this is far more than the ridiculous, and almost wholly American farce, regarding the Cold War. We are watching the final death throes of American Capitalism.

RespectTradition has hit upon the very, very scary notion: the belief that the top quintile can manage Global Capitalism on its own (with a handful of enablers / managers from Quintile #2). It is an absurdity from the start; the needs of Capital will require them to eat themselves. But when you do believe such notions, it makes a lot of superfluous people, and people with power usually do very bad things to superfluous people. Nazi things.

The only way out of this vicious, doomed, and ugly circle is to embrace substantive equality. This goes beyond people as well, but also the natural world.

This need not involve a reduction in QoL. In fact, not only would it enhance QoL for the vast majority of the world, it would also enhance it for most of the United States citizenry - the richest country on the planet.

We are witnessing the historic impoverishment of the natural world thanks to Global Heating and the impoverishment of the world population thanks to Global Capitalism in its death throes. We must embrace the notion of serving the needs of people rather than genuflecting before the golden calf of the needs of Capital.
 
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utgibbs said:
Capitalism implodes almost immediately without a boot. It has never prospered for long without regulation. It's entire history is how to regulate it / change it during one of its many catastrophic failures. That is its entire history.

In fact, the better analogy is: is a horse and carriage faster than a Corvette that has blown up?

Answer: yes it is.
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wtf kind of analogy...........as bad as the back screen door crap
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im guessing gibbs is the marxist version of oe?

whats the deal with copying and pasting the manifesto?
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OrangeEmpire said:
im guessing gibbs is the marxist version of oe?

whats the deal with copying and pasting the manifesto?
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we've long thought gibbs is gsvol's inner-communist, though neither has admitted to being the dominant personality.
 
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