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  • <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Joe Sacco</i>

    I suppose it is difficult for a socialist to live in a capitalist state.

    1. They can either try and change it (difficult because the masses don't want the change)
    2. They can leave and live somewhere where they would be happier
    3. They can just sit and moan about it all the time

    Why do so many choose option 3?
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    Good point Joe, you'd think that lots of them would have sold up and moved to North Korea.
  • david2
    david2 Posts: 5,200
    But there are alot of people taking the first option, which is why we now have a national health service, minimum wage, health and safety legislation that stops captalist employers killing their employees for quick profits, etc etc etc.

    None of that stuiff would get done if it was left to capitalism.
  • <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by david2</i>

    health and safety legislation that stops captalist employers killing their employees for quick profits, etc etc etc.

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    As an employer, I constantly hanker back to the good old days when I was able to make quick profits by killing my employees.
  • redcogs
    redcogs Posts: 3,232
    Is North Korea on the Moray Firth?

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  • <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redcogs</i>

    Is North Korea on the Moray Firth?

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    Scotland is colder and has a lower life expectancy than North Korea, so it is a good starting point. [;)]
  • Unkraut
    Unkraut Posts: 1,103
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Patrick Stevens</i>

    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by david2</i>

    health and safety legislation that stops captalist employers killing their employees for quick profits, etc etc etc.

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    As an employer, I constantly hanker back to the good old days when I was able to make quick profits by killing my employees.
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    I always suspected your area of expertise was probate. [:D]
  • Joe Sacco
    Joe Sacco Posts: 4,907
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by david2</i>

    But there are alot of people taking the first option, which is why we now have a national health service, minimum wage, health and safety legislation that stops captalist employers killing their employees for quick profits, etc etc etc.

    None of that stuiff would get done if it was left to capitalism.
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    But is was left to capitalism. When has the country ever been socialist?
  • redcogs
    redcogs Posts: 3,232
    No, it was done by dissidents recognising the basic iniquities and forcing change upon the basic model.



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  • mjones
    mjones Posts: 1,915
    And thereby demonstrating that social needs and essential services can be provided within a market-based economy. The fundamental point is that all these things need to be paid for, so it is only efficient economies that can afford them in the long term. Don't forget that even in our 'capitalist' economy around 40% of GDP is spent by the state; every penny of that 40% funded by taxes on the wealth generating part of the economy.
  • redcogs
    redcogs Posts: 3,232
    No, the reason capitalism has to go is that it is an anarchic system with inevitable catastrophic structural economic crisis woven into its fabric.

    The poor and destitute are always burdened with the cost (economic and social) of rescuing the system. It is impossible to make capitalism work for the majority, since it depends crucially upon the majority being economically exploited by a tiny minority of unaccountable super rich parasites.

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  • mjones
    mjones Posts: 1,915
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redcogs</i>

    No, the reason capitalism has to go is that it is an anarchic system with inevitable catastrophic structural economic crisis woven into its fabric.

    The poor and destitute are always burdened with the cost (economic and social) of rescuing the system. It is impossible to make capitalism work for the majority, since it depends crucially upon the majority being economically exploited by a tiny minority of unaccountable super rich parasites.


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    The argument doesn't improve with repetition redcogs. The majority of people in this country are considerably better off than they have ever been and are vastly better off than those in countries that have tried centralised economies (the places that called themselves socialist, even if you dispute that).

    There are many reasons for global poverty, and the developed west must certainly take some responsibility for it, however the things that improve the lot of poor countries are better governance, resolution of conflict, and fair trade. None of these are incompatible with market based economies. Indeed fair trade is basically free trade (i.e. no import tarriffs or dumping etc) and is usually the sort of thing that free-market advocates want and socialists oppose...
  • Unkraut
    Unkraut Posts: 1,103
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redcogs</i>

    No, the reason capitalism has to go is that it is an anarchic system with inevitable catastrophic structural economic crisis woven into its fabric.

    The poor and destitute are always burdened with the cost (economic and social) of rescuing the system. It is impossible to make capitalism work for the majority, since it depends crucially upon the majority being economically exploited by a tiny minority of unaccountable super rich parasites.

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    I suspect capitalism <i>is</i> working for the majority, despite its inequalities. And you are not going to tell me that the socialist peoples' republics of eastern Europe didn't have <i>catastrophic structural economic crises woven into their fabric</i>. The economically exploited workers in the west were still better off than the free workers of the east.
  • spire
    spire Posts: 4,077
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redcogs</i>

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    Sterilise them and the problem will be solved in one generation![;)][:D][}:)]
  • Joe Sacco
    Joe Sacco Posts: 4,907
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redcogs</i>

    No, the reason capitalism has to go is that it is an anarchic system with inevitable catastrophic structural economic crisis woven into its fabric.

    The poor and destitute are always burdened with the cost (economic and social) of rescuing the system. It is impossible to make capitalism work for the majority, since it depends crucially upon the majority being economically exploited by a tiny minority of unaccountable super rich parasites.

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    So are you saying the majority of people in this country are below an acceptable standard of living?
  • <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redcogs</i>

    It is impossible to make capitalism work for the majority,
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    Of course it works for the majority - that's why pro capitalist parties win elections in Western democracies and truly socialist parties get a risible number of votes. Didn't Arthur Scargill have some socialist party going at the last election and all the candidates lost their deposits?
  • redcogs
    redcogs Posts: 3,232
    i take a global view Patrick - the majority of the worlds 6 billion population do not benefit from capitalism, which continues to immerse them in extreme poverty, often famine conditions. Insupportable.

    Only extremists of the worse type continue to believe that world poverty is a price worth paying as long as we in the industrialised west have comfortable lives.

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  • Joe Sacco
    Joe Sacco Posts: 4,907
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redcogs</i>

    i take a global view Patrick - the majority of the worlds 6 billion population do not benefit from capitalism, which continues to immerse them in extreme poverty, often famine conditions. Insupportable.

    Only extremists of the worse type continue to believe that world poverty is a price worth paying as long as we in the industrialised west have comfortable lives.

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    I see, so what you are after is a socialist party to control the whole world. My be worth thinking on a more realistic scale.
  • <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redcogs</i>

    i take a global view Patrick - the majority of the worlds 6 billion population do not benefit from capitalism, which continues to immerse them in extreme poverty, often famine conditions. Insupportable.

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    Hmm........so it is capitalism's fault that Zimbabwe has gone from being a prosperous country to an economic basket case? Might some of the fault lie with despotic rulers?
  • Joe Sacco
    Joe Sacco Posts: 4,907
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Patrick Stevens</i>

    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redcogs</i>

    i take a global view Patrick - the majority of the worlds 6 billion population do not benefit from capitalism, which continues to immerse them in extreme poverty, often famine conditions. Insupportable.

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    Hmm........so it is capitalism's fault that Zimbabwe has gone from being a prosperous country to an economic basket case? Might some of the fault lie with despotic rulers?
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    Don't spoil it and bring it into the real world.
  • <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Joe Sacco</i>

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    I see, so what you are after is a socialist party to control the whole world. My be worth thinking on a more realistic scale.
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    I dunno, Joe, if they start on a small scale, others are going to notice that it's not working. And what about the poor sods in the socialist countries? They're going to be like the East Germans watching West German telly and noticing that their counterparts are buying new VW Golfs while they are on a 12 year waiting list for a Lada that costs three year's wages and doesn't work.
  • speshcp
    speshcp Posts: 3,746
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Patrick Stevens</i>

    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redcogs</i>

    i take a global view Patrick - the majority of the worlds 6 billion population do not benefit from capitalism, which continues to immerse them in extreme poverty, often famine conditions. Insupportable.

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    Hmm........so it is capitalism's fault that Zimbabwe has gone from being a prosperous country to an economic basket case? Might some of the fault lie with despotic rulers?
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    More a klepto-kakistocracy. [:(]

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  • speshcp
    speshcp Posts: 3,746
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Patrick Stevens</i>

    And what about the poor sods in the socialist countries? They're going to be like the East Germans watching West German telly and noticing that their counterparts are buying new VW Golfs while they are on a 12 year waiting list for a Lada that costs three year's wages and doesn't work.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"><font size="1"><font color="purple"><Pedant></font id="purple"></font id="size1">

    The best the East German motor industry could come up with was the Wartburg or the Trabant...

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    A Lada would have been an improvement, a Skoda would have been unimaginable luxury. [:D]

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