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...'crime scene tape around Wall Street'
Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday.
Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.
"Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie concludes.
"You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy."
The bad guys in Moore's mind are big banks and hedge funds which "gambled" investors' money in complex derivatives that few, if any, really understood and which belonged in the casino.
Meanwhile, large companies have been prepared to lay off thousands of staff despite boasting record profits.
The filmmaker also sees an uncomfortably close relationship between banks, politicians and U.S. Treasury officials, meaning that regulation has been changed to favor the few on Wall Street rather than the many on Main Street.
He says that by encouraging Americans to borrow against the value of their homes, businesses created the conditions that led to the crisis, and with it homelessness and unemployment.
Moore even features priests who say capitalism is anti-Christian by failing to protect the poor.
"Essentially we have a law which says gambling is illegal but we've allowed Wall Street to do this and they've played with people's money and taken it into these crazy areas of derivatives," Moore told an audience in Venice.
"They need more than just regulation. We need to structure ourselves differently in order to create finance and money, support for jobs, businesses, etc."
GREEN SHOOTS?
Amid the gloom, Moore detects the beginnings of a popular movement against unbridled capitalism, and believes President Barack Obama's rise to power may bolster it.
"Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event," he told a news conference. "If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him."
Moore also warned other countries around the world against following the recent U.S. economic and political model.
The film follows factory workers who stage a sit-in at a Chicago glass factory when they are sacked with little warning and no pay and who eventually prevail over the bank.
And a group of citizens occupies a home that has been repossessed and boarded up by the lending company, forcing the police who come to evict them to back down.
The film re-visits some of Moore's earlier movies, including a trip to his native Flint where his father was a car assembly line worker and was able to buy a home, a car, educate his children and look forward to a decent pension.
But he brings it up to date with an examination of the financial crisis, demanding to speak to the bosses of companies at the center of the collapse and demanding that banks give back the hundreds of billions of bailout dollars to the country.
And he interviews an employee of a firm which buys up re-possessed, or "distressed" properties at a fraction of their original value and which is called Condo Vultures.
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5850F320090906
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Lets deport him to a third world country that still practices cannibalism.
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What I don't understand is this: He comes from Flynt, MI (A major drek hole). How in G-d's name can he be a bleeding heart liberal? I'll tell you, I work in a really bad section of Newark, NJ, and I went from moderate leaning right to an ultra-conservative. I don't get it! Deport that blimp to Africa to be with his people!
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Michael Moore is the worst type of self-hating animal there is!
Let's look at his other body of work in Propaganda films:
Fahrenheit 9/11-
Sicko-
Bowling for Columbine-
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Funny, Michael Whore (yimach schmo) didn't have bad things to say about capitalism when it made him rich.
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For all we know he doesn't believe anything he says in his films and he is just a marketing genius. He knows what people will buy. He brings a lot of valid points and doesn't make things up like the rest of the dumb media and the Muslims. A 9/11 conspiracy movie right after 9/11 sells, a shooting movie after school shootings sells, a health care movie during a health care crisis sells, and a capitalism movie during an economic crisis sells. Money is his yetzer hara, what can I say. There are bigger issues in the world than Michael Moore.
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For all we know he doesn't believe anything he says in his films and he is just a marketing genius. He knows what people will buy. He brings a lot of valid points and doesn't make things up like the rest of the dumb media and the Muslims. A 9/11 conspiracy movie right after 9/11 sells, a shooting movie after school shootings sells, a health care movie during a health care crisis sells, and a capitalism movie during an economic crisis sells. Money is his yetzer hara, what can I say. There are bigger issues in the world than Michael Moore.
Very few 'issues' are larger than Michael Moore... He is the biggest 'issue' I have ever seen..
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:::D
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For all we know he doesn't believe anything he says in his films and he is just a marketing genius. He knows what people will buy. He brings a lot of valid points and doesn't make things up like the rest of the dumb media and the Muslims. A 9/11 conspiracy movie right after 9/11 sells, a shooting movie after school shootings sells, a health care movie during a health care crisis sells, and a capitalism movie during an economic crisis sells. Money is his yetzer hara, what can I say. There are bigger issues in the world than Michael Moore.
Brilliant analysis! Completely agree! :clap:
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He ought to move to North Korea.
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Michale Moore - is a V.I. Lenin went capitalistic! Both needed and manipulated useful idiots!
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Moore will do whatever it takes to bring home the bacon. And he obviously loves bacon!
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My new movie:
Michael is fat
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For all we know he doesn't believe anything he says in his films and he is just a marketing genius. He knows what people will buy. He brings a lot of valid points and doesn't make things up like the rest of the dumb media and the Muslims. A 9/11 conspiracy movie right after 9/11 sells, a shooting movie after school shootings sells, a health care movie during a health care crisis sells, and a capitalism movie during an economic crisis sells. Money is his yetzer hara, what can I say. There are bigger issues in the world than Michael Moore.
Brilliant analysis! Completely agree! :clap:
Thanks, common man.
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Funny, Michael Whore (yimach schmo) didn't have bad things to say about capitalism when it made him rich.
Great observation! Michael Whore has a selective memorie.
Shalom - Dox
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Funny, Michael Whore (yimach schmo) didn't have bad things to say about capitalism when it made him rich.
Great observation! Michael Whore has a selective memorie.
Shalom - Dox
That's why he's wiping his fat [censored] with an endless supply of hundreds.
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Michael more is evil for saying capitalism is evil.
We don't want a Stalin imposed on us by moore and his lunatic fellow-travellers.
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Personally I have to agree with AsheDina, there is going to be a huge war as a result of the growing tensions caused by the radicals who want to turn our Country into a 3rd world Chit Hole. Michael Whore, George ( Satan ) Soros, and many others radicals who put this muslim marxist into the White House are not going to give up easily. Capitalism is their enemy and capitalism allows all people to have a better life. Their greatest wish is to have 2 classes of peoples, the elite and the poor.
It's going to get ugly before it gets better.
Shalom - Dox
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I have been thinking about something lately. Does the desire to equalize everyone and everything come from Satan? I intuit that it comes from a dark place. The 10th commandment speaks about a prohibition on the act of coveting. Coveting is a very dangerous emotion. Rene Girard, a philosophical anthropologist and a religious Catholic, says that the coveting commendment comes last, yet the violation of the 10th commandment eventually leads to the violation of the previous nine.
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"You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy."
Leave it to the genius, Michael Moore, to suggest replacing capitalism, an economic system, with democracy, a political system. Or does he perhaps mean that the economic system we should use should be everyone voting on how all the money is spent? Either way, it's irrelevant, just like him. I'll watch his film on capitalism when he takes all the money that he's earned, because of capitalism, and allows all of us to vote on who should get it and how it should be spent. Until then, he is like most leftists; ready to come up with great ideas on how to spend other peoples money, just as long as the money being spent is not his own.
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Personally I have to agree with AsheDina, there is going to be a huge war as a result of the growing tensions caused by the radicals who want to turn our Country into a 3rd world Chit Hole. Michael Whore, George ( Satan ) Soros, and many others radicals who put this muslim marxist into the White House are not going to give up easily. Capitalism is their enemy and capitalism allows all people to have a better life. Their greatest wish is to have 2 classes of peoples, the elite and the poor.
It's going to get ugly before it gets better.
Shalom - Dox
Yes sadly something is going to have to happen to get things ironed out. People like Moore are the face of evil. He present issues to the uninformed in a way that causes them to believe that they are needlessly being put at a disadvantage. People like this are very dangerous because they incite the ignorant into doing their bidding. The liberals in power today are the most radical element in the Democrat party. They want to bring everyone down to the same downtrodden and dependent condition. Only then will they have their wish of having full control of average Americans every move.
For all we know he doesn't believe anything he says in his films and he is just a marketing genius. He knows what people will buy. He brings a lot of valid points and doesn't make things up like the rest of the dumb media and the Muslims. A 9/11 conspiracy movie right after 9/11 sells, a shooting movie after school shootings sells, a health care movie during a health care crisis sells, and a capitalism movie during an economic crisis sells. Money is his yetzer hara, what can I say. There are bigger issues in the world than Michael Moore.
This is meant to be funny right?...... Moore does it for the money but I don't think its the motivating factor. I think Moore honestly believes he has scores to settle with corporate America and the establishment. What valid points does he bring to the table?....... Its true he is always focused on the controversy of the day but he always presents it from his radical liberal socialist point of view. Anyone that says Moore speaks the truth really cant possibly consider themselves even a moderate conservative. The animal distorts the issue so bad that in the end its hard to tell fact from fiction. Moore is a mouthpiece for the liberal far left and as such should be considered very dangerous in the political situation we are in today.
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Michael Moore is the Leni Riefenstahl of our time.
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Personally I have to agree with AsheDina, there is going to be a huge war as a result of the growing tensions caused by the radicals who want to turn our Country into a 3rd world Chit Hole. Michael Whore, George ( Satan ) Soros, and many others radicals who put this muslim marxist into the White House are not going to give up easily. Capitalism is their enemy and capitalism allows all people to have a better life. Their greatest wish is to have 2 classes of peoples, the elite and the poor.
It's going to get ugly before it gets better.
Shalom - Dox
Yes sadly something is going to have to happen to get things ironed out. People like Moore are the face of evil. He present issues to the uninformed in a way that causes them to believe that they are needlessly being put at a disadvantage. People like this are very dangerous because they incite the ignorant into doing their bidding. The liberals in power today are the most radical element in the Democrat party. They want to bring everyone down to the same downtrodden and dependent condition. Only then will they have their wish of having full control of average Americans every move.
For all we know he doesn't believe anything he says in his films and he is just a marketing genius. He knows what people will buy. He brings a lot of valid points and doesn't make things up like the rest of the dumb media and the Muslims. A 9/11 conspiracy movie right after 9/11 sells, a shooting movie after school shootings sells, a health care movie during a health care crisis sells, and a capitalism movie during an economic crisis sells. Money is his yetzer hara, what can I say. There are bigger issues in the world than Michael Moore.
This is meant to be funny right?...... Moore does it for the money but I don't think its the motivating factor. I think Moore honestly believes he has scores to settle with corporate America and the establishment. What valid points does he bring to the table?....... Its true he is always focused on the controversy of the day but he always presents it from his radical liberal socialist point of view. Anyone that says Moore speaks the truth really cant possibly consider themselves even a moderate conservative. The animal distorts the issue so bad that in the end its hard to tell fact from fiction. Moore is a mouthpiece for the liberal far left and as such should be considered very dangerous in the political situation we are in today.
Big deal, Al Jazeera, CNN, Fox News and all that crap are worse than Moore. He is ONE problem, not THE problem. The reason he is so successful is because the rest of the idiots in the world don't research enough to formulate their own opinion. A part of being a functional human being in society is investigating every source on a certain issue and ONLY then formulating an opinion. Those who believe EVERYTHING Moore says are either misinformed, uninformed, or too lazy to conduct their own research. Just because he brings a load of crap to the table doesn't mean it's all his fault. It's the people that buy the garbage because they don't have any REAL information. Michael Moore is a tabloid. That is all. We don't have to believe tabloids.
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Mo, you are 100% correct. Moore and his elk would be nothing without mindless idiots taking their distortions as the gospel.
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Personally I have to agree with AsheDina, there is going to be a huge war as a result of the growing tensions caused by the radicals who want to turn our Country into a 3rd world Chit Hole. Michael Whore, George ( Satan ) Soros, and many others radicals who put this muslim marxist into the White House are not going to give up easily. Capitalism is their enemy and capitalism allows all people to have a better life. Their greatest wish is to have 2 classes of peoples, the elite and the poor.
It's going to get ugly before it gets better.
Shalom - Dox
Yes sadly something is going to have to happen to get things ironed out. People like Moore are the face of evil. He present issues to the uninformed in a way that causes them to believe that they are needlessly being put at a disadvantage. People like this are very dangerous because they incite the ignorant into doing their bidding. The liberals in power today are the most radical element in the Democrat party. They want to bring everyone down to the same downtrodden and dependent condition. Only then will they have their wish of having full control of average Americans every move.
For all we know he doesn't believe anything he says in his films and he is just a marketing genius. He knows what people will buy. He brings a lot of valid points and doesn't make things up like the rest of the dumb media and the Muslims. A 9/11 conspiracy movie right after 9/11 sells, a shooting movie after school shootings sells, a health care movie during a health care crisis sells, and a capitalism movie during an economic crisis sells. Money is his yetzer hara, what can I say. There are bigger issues in the world than Michael Moore.
This is meant to be funny right?...... Moore does it for the money but I don't think its the motivating factor. I think Moore honestly believes he has scores to settle with corporate America and the establishment. What valid points does he bring to the table?....... Its true he is always focused on the controversy of the day but he always presents it from his radical liberal socialist point of view. Anyone that says Moore speaks the truth really cant possibly consider themselves even a moderate conservative. The animal distorts the issue so bad that in the end its hard to tell fact from fiction. Moore is a mouthpiece for the liberal far left and as such should be considered very dangerous in the political situation we are in today.
Big deal, Al Jazeera, CNN, Fox News and all that crap are worse than Moore. He is ONE problem, not THE problem. The reason he is so successful is because the rest of the idiots in the world don't research enough to formulate their own opinion. A part of being a functional human being in society is investigating every source on a certain issue and ONLY then formulating an opinion. Those who believe EVERYTHING Moore says are either misinformed, uninformed, or too lazy to conduct their own research. Just because he brings a load of crap to the table doesn't mean it's all his fault. It's the people that buy the garbage because they don't have any REAL information. Michael Moore is a tabloid. That is all. We don't have to believe tabloids.
I like Fox News while its not 100% its 75% which is sort of good by todays standards. We are just not going to agree on Moore. I see your point of view but I think the man is far more dangerous then a tabloid. I also don't believe that Moore puts research into his issues. He goes with the flavor of the day. Any time that More comes out with something he needs to get a strong rebuttal. I was never so happy when after More put out his film Fahrenheit 911 Dick Moriss put out Fahrenhype 911.
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Personally I have to agree with AsheDina, there is going to be a huge war as a result of the growing tensions caused by the radicals who want to turn our Country into a 3rd world Chit Hole. Michael Whore, George ( Satan ) Soros, and many others radicals who put this muslim marxist into the White House are not going to give up easily. Capitalism is their enemy and capitalism allows all people to have a better life. Their greatest wish is to have 2 classes of peoples, the elite and the poor.
It's going to get ugly before it gets better.
Shalom - Dox
Yes sadly something is going to have to happen to get things ironed out. People like Moore are the face of evil. He present issues to the uninformed in a way that causes them to believe that they are needlessly being put at a disadvantage. People like this are very dangerous because they incite the ignorant into doing their bidding. The liberals in power today are the most radical element in the Democrat party. They want to bring everyone down to the same downtrodden and dependent condition. Only then will they have their wish of having full control of average Americans every move.
For all we know he doesn't believe anything he says in his films and he is just a marketing genius. He knows what people will buy. He brings a lot of valid points and doesn't make things up like the rest of the dumb media and the Muslims. A 9/11 conspiracy movie right after 9/11 sells, a shooting movie after school shootings sells, a health care movie during a health care crisis sells, and a capitalism movie during an economic crisis sells. Money is his yetzer hara, what can I say. There are bigger issues in the world than Michael Moore.
This is meant to be funny right?...... Moore does it for the money but I don't think its the motivating factor. I think Moore honestly believes he has scores to settle with corporate America and the establishment. What valid points does he bring to the table?....... Its true he is always focused on the controversy of the day but he always presents it from his radical liberal socialist point of view. Anyone that says Moore speaks the truth really cant possibly consider themselves even a moderate conservative. The animal distorts the issue so bad that in the end its hard to tell fact from fiction. Moore is a mouthpiece for the liberal far left and as such should be considered very dangerous in the political situation we are in today.
Big deal, Al Jazeera, CNN, Fox News and all that crap are worse than Moore. He is ONE problem, not THE problem. The reason he is so successful is because the rest of the idiots in the world don't research enough to formulate their own opinion. A part of being a functional human being in society is investigating every source on a certain issue and ONLY then formulating an opinion. Those who believe EVERYTHING Moore says are either misinformed, uninformed, or too lazy to conduct their own research. Just because he brings a load of crap to the table doesn't mean it's all his fault. It's the people that buy the garbage because they don't have any REAL information. Michael Moore is a tabloid. That is all. We don't have to believe tabloids.
I like Fox News while its not 100% its 75% which is sort of good by todays standards. We are just not going to agree on Moore. I see your point of view but I think the man is far more dangerous then a tabloid. I also don't believe that Moore puts research into his issues. He goes with the flavor of the day. Any time that More comes out with something he needs to get a strong rebuttal. I was never so happy when after More put out his film Fahrenheit 911 Dick Moriss put out Fahrenhype 911.
The fact that you "don't believe that Moore puts research into his issues", and that "He goes with the flavor of the day", just proves how everyone who follows his crap is at fault. Call it the erev rav, call it whatever you want. The guy's just a fat, rich bastard who takes advantage of dumb Americans. The cigarette companies, fast-food industry, and majority of media outlets do the same thing. We'll agree to disagree.
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I think there are so many in the political realm are nothing more than money grubbers who are willing to say or believe whatever if it makes them wealthy. Moore is not alone. I think the likes of Bill Maher and Rush Limbaugh belong in this category. Just look at Michael Savage. Political commentary nowadays has almost become as scripted as WWE wrestling.
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He brings a lot of valid points and doesn't make things up like the rest of the dumb media and the Muslims.
What???? Everything he says is either an outright lie or a HUGE distortion. Watch farenhype 9/11 and you will see that his lies and distortion are purposeful.... just as purposeful as Obama's lies, or as the lies of Islam.
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This devil speaks of evil?
What should we expect from a pile of slime?
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IMO Capitalism is as evil as socialism.
In one case, the corporations run everything with government backing, the other side, the government runs everything with some select corporations working in the background for the government. Same [censored], different name.
Of course a communist is simply a capitalist in denial, they accept bribes just as much as anyone.
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He is a fat ugly pig. Goes to show what these leftist look like.. He goes to the zoo and elephants give him peanuts
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He goes to the zoo and the elephants take a crap on him.
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IMO Capitalism is as evil as socialism.
In one case, the corporations run everything with government backing, the other side, the government runs everything with some select corporations working in the background for the government. Same drek, different name.
Of course a communist is simply a capitalist in denial, they accept bribes just as much as anyone.
Imo, capitalism might be a misnomer. Marx defined it too early, during the period of transition. He focused on the wrong things and not on the salient points to describe this new social-economic formation.
Do we have the system that we think of as capitalism? I don't think so. how we define capitalism? Free market? But we don't have a free market. Rationalization of labor and factory production? yes, but socialism had that as well. So what are the defining characteristics? Everything is steered by the banking olygarchy that sits over and controls the money supply. The defining aspect of today's system is not the mode of production but the mode of financing. It is the virtual economy controlled by the international banking elite, This is why we observe the undermining of the nation-state. The money elite is not interested in the individual nation-state.
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Masha, what do you mean by 'mode of production'? The industry produces according to the customer demand, no more and no less. Doesn't it work so today?
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Masha, what do you mean by 'mode of production'? The industry produces according to the customer demand, no more and no less. Doesn't it work so today?
If I remember my Marxism-Leninism correcly, "the mode of production" refers to the division of labor and factory production, which Marx identified with capitalism. It displaced people from the land and send them to the cities to work in factories.
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Masha, what do you mean by 'mode of production'? The industry produces according to the customer demand, no more and no less. Doesn't it work so today?
If I remember my Marxism-Leninism correcly, "the mode of production" refers to the division of labor and factory production, which Marx identified with capitalism. It displaced people from the land and send them to the cities to work in factories.
I don't know if it is still the case but I was always led to believe that the Soviets worked on 5 year plans that dictated what and how much would be produced. The reason for this was the fact that government set the pricing and by doing that removed the demand or lack of demand for a product. In the capitalist system something that does not sell is soon found in the bargain bin and soon disappears altogether from the market.
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Masha, what do you mean by 'mode of production'? The industry produces according to the customer demand, no more and no less. Doesn't it work so today?
If I remember my Marxism-Leninism correcly, "the mode of production" refers to the division of labor and factory production, which Marx identified with capitalism. It displaced people from the land and send them to the cities to work in factories.
I don't know if it is still the case but I was always led to believe that the Soviets worked on 5 year plans that dictated what and how much would be produced. The reason for this was the fact that government set the pricing and by doing that removed the demand or lack of demand for a product. In the capitalist system something that does not sell is soon found in the bargain bin and soon disappears altogether from the market.
Soviets produced much just to reach and surpass America. Sometimes it lead to the surplus of goods that nobody needed.
:::D
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Masha, what do you mean by 'mode of production'? The industry produces according to the customer demand, no more and no less. Doesn't it work so today?
If I remember my Marxism-Leninism correcly, "the mode of production" refers to the division of labor and factory production, which Marx identified with capitalism. It displaced people from the land and send them to the cities to work in factories.
I don't know if it is still the case but I was always led to believe that the Soviets worked on 5 year plans that dictated what and how much would be produced. The reason for this was the fact that government set the pricing and by doing that removed the demand or lack of demand for a product. In the capitalist system something that does not sell is soon found in the bargain bin and soon disappears altogether from the market.
Correct. According to Marxism-Leninism, one of the great problems of capitalism is overproduction and wastefulness. This is why they had 5-year plans of production, which they tried to model mathematically (i.e. we will need to produce so many washing machines in the next 5 years). One of the problems was that it made the economy very inflexible. It could not adjust for and incorporate trends. The clothing it produced was always unfashionable, as one would expect, because they couldn't make predictions for what would be fashionable even next year. This is why they tried to make all clothes "timeless." :laugh:
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Here's one funny fragment of Khruschev's debate with the Americans:
http://download.sovmusic.ru/m32/khrushev.mp3
Khruschev said:
"We still have a lot of work to do to catch up with you. For the moment, you are ahead of us. We'll do that. We'll do our best. We'll catch up. We'll surpass you. And we'll go forward. That's my conviction. You may perhaps laugh now. But when we overtake you, we'll wave our hands and say "Capitalists! Good bye. Our train is going ahead. Catch up if you can!"
http://sovmusic.ru/text.php?fname=khrushev
:)
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Do we have the system that we think of as capitalism? I don't think so. how we define capitalism? Free market? But we don't have a free market.
Our system is based on Adam Smith, which is REAL capitalism - capitalism with checks and balances. The "robber baron" completely free market system without any overarching structure or checks in place and designed to benefit only the rich (which marx and others attack) was not really what Smith talked about. Or am I mistaken?
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Capitalism, when left unchecked, can indeed be corrupt and polluted. The multi national corporations get away with their thievery because they own the lawmakers of our country. That is not what the free market was intended for.
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Capitalism, when left unchecked, can indeed be corrupt and polluted. The multi national corporations get away with their thievery because they own the lawmakers of our country. That is not what the free market was intended for.
When free markets work as they should, they are supposed to insure flexibility, dynamism, competitiveness, robustness, and quick recovery. Unchecked growth is not good - it leads to corruption, loss of flexibility, and competition. We have very free market today only on the very low level. On the top, we have a power grab by perm,anent elites. Rockefeller (sp?) said that "competition is sin."
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Capitalism, when left unchecked, can indeed be corrupt and polluted. The multi national corporations get away with their thievery because they own the lawmakers of our country. That is not what the free market was intended for.
When free markets work as they should, they are supposed to insure flexibility, dynamism, competitiveness, robustness, and quick recovery. Unchecked growth is not good - it leads to corruption, loss of flexibility, and competition. We have very free market today only on the very low level. On the top, we have a power grab by perm,anent elites. Rockefeller (sp?) said that "competition is sin."
This is so true. Just look at Wal Mart. I shop there, but there is no doubt that Wal Mart has done a lot to kill small local business because of their merciless goal to control the retail world.
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Capitalism, when left unchecked, can indeed be corrupt and polluted. The multi national corporations get away with their thievery because they own the lawmakers of our country. That is not what the free market was intended for.
When free markets work as they should, they are supposed to insure flexibility, dynamism, competitiveness, robustness, and quick recovery. Unchecked growth is not good - it leads to corruption, loss of flexibility, and competition. We have very free market today only on the very low level. On the top, we have a power grab by perm,anent elites. Rockefeller (sp?) said that "competition is sin."
This is so true. Just look at Wal Mart. I shop there, but there is no doubt that Wal Mart has done a lot to kill small local business because of their merciless goal to control the retail world.
RanterM,
Your comment about Walmart is valid.
Recently, I saw a documentary about the impact that Walmart has on small-town businesses throughout the U.S.A..
And, it showed how small business owners could not keep up against a giant like Walmart.
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The Wal Mart in my town has bought up land near it's location to prevent others business' from moving in, such as a Target. That is just wrong to hog up land with no intention of using it, preventing more business which will create jobs and help the local economy. And yet the idiots of that store can't keep in stock the brand of shaving cream I use! >:(