You seriously believe the actions were motivated by Capitalism? The atrocities I mentioned were consequences of Communism. Every capitalist state does not propagate genocide. Every communist state without exception commits atrocities against their own people, and anyone they can get under their thumb too.
What is capitalism but the goal of extracting as many resources for yourself as possible?
Actually, one of the tenets of capitalism is what enables the service-based economy - IE, that generation of wealth is not a zero sum game, and does not require "extracting" resources.
And one of the tenants of communism is that people shouldn't be intentionally starved to death. If you give the least-charitable possible interpretation of one, I give the least charitable possible interpretation of the other.
The difference is, capitalism DOES actually generate wealth in a non-zero-sum method, but communism DOES actually starve people to death.
No system has created more economic mobility than capitalism in the entirety of human history. 700,000 new American households became millionaires in 2017 alone. The number of millionaires in the US has doubled since the 08 financial crisis.
He wasn't. Fuck that guy.
Other than Eriol
Preeetty sure he says the opposite, actually. He says both that Communism is bad and McCarthyism is bad.
This statement is closer to "The ends justify the means," than the Cohen questioning is to McCarthyism. That we're even talking about communism right now is absurd.
He said "some". He basically agreed that keeping communists barred from politics and imprisoned in the US was legitimate. That was the whole reason he wrote that reply to AshburnerX, because he didn't agree with the (Illegitimate) comment in regard to actual communists.
Actually, he said that some of the methods used by McCarthyism were bad, his comments seem to indicate that he approved of the movement as a whole. Where he draws the line between stopping communism and protecting free speech (which I assume he does support on some level) remains to be seen.
Considering Capitalism is directly responsible for the spread of untold diseases into the Americas, with a death count upwards of 90% long before Spain, England, or America began their campaigns against the native peoples, I'd argue that it's body count would have been even greater had population levels in the Americas been where they were during Stalin's infamous purges and Mao's idiotic, self-caused famines.
Yeah, what's up with this? This is fucked up. Hundreds of people were imprisoned, 10-12 thousand lost their jobs, on the mere accusation of being Red. These people weren't even given 5th Amendment protections; claiming the 5th was considered by McCarthy to be "the most positive proof obtainable that the witness is Communist," and was often used as evidence against the accused. Violating the Constitution and ruining the lives of thousands of people was not worth catching a handful of Reds that may not have even committed any crimes other than being a Red.
Ehh that's more Mercantilism than Capitalism
And that's why I always vote for the Marijuana Party.
And that's why the government that governs least governs best.
Oligarchy/anarchy it is, then.
But that doesn't work, either. Because businesses are greedier than governments. Unregulated businesses are like evil plagues of locusts that take without giving back.
The trick is to pit the businesses against each other. Competition always benefits everyone the most. It keeps prices low, quality high, and choices abundant. It's when competition is eliminated that capitalism breaks down - and most of our problems can easily be shown to have anticompetitive routes. That's why I always say the government's one clear acceptable "meddling" role should be to enforce competition.
As I said previously:
Yes, one of the problems right now is that business controls too much of government. From lobbying to straight up drafting the legislation and talking points themselves. I think we can make a good case for "Business" being added as another thing that should be separated from the State, much like Religion.
Ma Bell literally owned all telecommunication in this country for a while. It's hard to find an industry with a higher barrier to entry than telecommunications. But they got broken up. It was a bit of a headache at first, but when things shook out, now we can pick from AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Boost, etc...
And they're in the process of merging up again.
This. This is exactly what I remember learning about McCarthyism. It was why Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible about the witchhunts and people being falsely accused to punish rivals and cover up indiscretions. Very little of McCarthyism was actually about any possible threat from communism and used as a bogeyman to threaten and intimidate.
