actually, Capitalism is a system in which men (some women but mostly men because its an inherently patriarchial system) coming from economically privileged background deal maintain their privilege by exploitation, almost always to a devestating effect on what they are exploiting, and with no regards to the "total cost" of their actions, all to benefit only themselves. Sure what you said is what capitalism on paper, and every once and awhile an average joe sort manages to weasel his way to achieve "true capitalism," but this is a rarity that we see less and less these days as global capitalism turns into corporate totalitarianism (and often when said average joe does achieve this, its by fucking people over). The victims of capitalism's numbers grow exponentially every day, and there are plenty of slaves. Sweatshops are a prime example of slave labor. Also, what you'd consider "real" slavery still goes on even in the states, occasionally being found out and dealt with as it should be. If you want an example of Capitalism's victims look at Latin America. It is full of them. Why do you think there is a revolution that has been going on in Mexico since the early 90s? During the WTO meetings in Cancun the most profound statement (besides them being shutdown) was perhaps made by the Guetamalean (pretty sure on the nationally, might be a different Latin American country tho) farmer got up on the gates and stabbed himself in the stoumach, falling dead onto the police lines. He'd rather die than face the situation of what was going to happen if the FTAA gets passed. Corporations are not people and should not have more rights than a normal living being has. Capitalism is far from the ideal economic system. Anarcho-Syndicalism (as practiced during the 1936 revolution in Spain) is perhaps the best (while anti-civ anarchists would disagree, it is the primary anarchist economic theory that has been put into practice aside from work-trade). Capitalist Avarice is only the virtue of dictators and facists, as "excessive or insatiable greed" (definition of avarice) is condemned by most anyone else. While your arguement would perhaps make Big Brother proud, it really has no merit or facts behind it besides an biased economic's textbook.
-a communique of the GAMA Network
Reply
Leave a comment