Why I Hate Capitalism

What?? You hate Amerakur? Well you can geet out.

Capitalism has done more for you and this website than you will ever know…

Your just mad because you didn’t think of it and become crazy rich, filthy crazy rich!!

Capitalism, like money itself, is just a tool. It’s up to people to use it for good or ill.

After all, somebody must be willing to pay money for this monstrosity. Otherwise it wouldn’t be for sale. Those people deserve contempt (or perhaps pity).

Personally, I blame the “education” system.

Kevin, how does hating capitalism have anything to do with favoring communism or socialism. There are other forms of government such as, perhaps, a true democracy rather than a representative bastardization, some form of libertarian social democracy, or perhaps an emperor, an enlightened monarch, or a philosopher king.

Furthermore, its not that this offends ones sensibilities. Its that morons like you, who craft arguments riddled with false dilemmas, would actually consider buying something like this thus rewarding the capitalist dipshit who came up with the idea by actually providing him with a market.

And move? please. I’m in NYC. I’m not moving, but I think we and LA should take our 90% of the nations economy, elect Bloomberg and Arnold to the executive branch and call it “USA2: No Flyover States Allowed”

In conclusion, Kevin, you’re a moron.

Love Always,

– New York.

I love that if there is a quibble or criticism of America out there it is always rebuked with
“love it or leave it”
or
“well you better deal cause the alternatives suck”

I like to think of America as my home and my fellow countrymen as my family. The analogy can be extended. I don’t know distant members of my family,and I probably won’t agree with everything they say and do but there is still a common bond. I don’t throw off and forsake family.
The home analogy can work as well for the country. If I want to re-arrange a room in the house or say that I want to make repairs, that doesn’t mean my only options are to accept the defects or move.
You can change things about where you live without the requirement of leaving. You can criticize your home specifically because it is that, and one must always be critical of where they live, it’s there home.
If someone tells me to leave my home because they don’t like me or my thoughts, I consider that bigotry. I am being attacked because of what I believe in. That will not stand.

Kevin, you do not live in a homogeneous nation. There are different ideas, practices, beliefs, and ideologies that abound in the United States. Our culture is defined by variety. It is actions like yours that are one sided and narrow minded that places a great shame on all Americans.

Your inability to show toleration, acceptance and a willingness to deal with a variety of views leaves me feeling very sad about the future of reasonable discourse. Please come back and discuss why you have such a passionate faith in capitalism. I would love to discuss.

But do not ever again insult me or my country like you have here.

Capitalism is the same as socialism. the only difference is the corporate plutocracy controls the masses instead of ‘elected’ officials.

Why is socialism and communism bad? Why tell me why in a reasonable analytical way not cause were better than them and we won. Why is affordable healthcare considered a form of socialism? Why is a progressive tax system considered communistic? Hey, I just want to be able to get sown up when I get hurt and not be made homeless in the process. I just want the tax breaks that the mega buck people get. I just want to not be taxed at a rate higher than most european counties (yes we are), or get some sort of benifit out of it, like a good school for my kid or healthcare. I just don’t want to feel like a moron for responding to moronic post. I want to stop feeling like I’m from the future dealing with a bunch of monkey people.

Kevin-

To start off, as I’m a first-time commenter on this site, I’d like you to know where I’m coming from on this. I’m probably butchering this quote horribly, but as Voltaire said, “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

That said, you seem to have a few misconceptions about communism. Yes, the “everyone works for the good of the whole and gets goods and services according to their needs” economic system is a big part of the idealized communist society, but communism is actually a form of government. Unfortunately, the world has yet to see a pure communist society, and so there is a lot of prejudice, especially here in the US, against communism.

Pure communism, theoretically, comes about when the divide between the upper and lower class gets too wide. The middle class disappears, and the upper class monopolizes resources while the lower class does all the work. Inevitably, the lower class revolts, and seizes and redistributes all privately owned and government owned property (everything becomes public domain).

The reason that we have yet to see a pure communist society is that, according to Marx, it must come about through the action of the working class, not one individual. Marx also said that there are two things that such a society needs to build up in order to survive: its agriculture and its military, in that order. All of the supposedly communist societies we’ve seen through history have been brought about by the initiatives of individuals who built up their countries’ militaries before their agricultural strength, and thus they are not actually communist, and the negative connotations surrounding the term came about.

Sorry to ramble on so long, I’m doing my history homework and trying to avoid going back to it. Have a good night!

~Cat

if I can blog it there, I’ll blog it ANYWHERE. It’s up to you New York, New York.

sorry all, I was being a dumb cunt. I will stop being a dumb cunt now

I have no problem with “capitalism” at all.

But “capitalism”, if not performed in reasonable moderation (much like religion, alcohol, certain medications, etc.) can turn into a detriment.

And because it has NOT been taken in moderation, it has produced folks like these who made this coin.

And as a result, a minority of Americans who live-and-breath this form of “capitalism”, would slit their own mothers’ throats, if it meant a quick buck.

Just an observation.

Wait a minute. It’s not available in stores!?! Now that is strange. I’m sure I can’t imagine why…

This is not an example of what’s wrong with capitalism, it’s an example of an incredibly tacky product and someone taking advantage of a tragedy.

Capitalism is fine… where natural monopolies are regulated. I like being able to participate in it, personally.

What Kevin the troll (first post) doesn’t understand, is that this country is a representative republic, as set out by the Constitutional framers. As such, it could practice any economic structure as determined by those who represent us, be it capitalism or socialism, regulated or not regulated.

Currently, we have a highly unregulated, subsidy-driven form of capitalism. As it just so happens, highly unregulated capitalism in a free society, where the courts have ruled that money = free speech, gives us a political system that rewards industries that feed the political system more money… eventually every aspect of the society becomes polluted by money. Those with the most money have the most free speech, and the ability to use it to their advantage.

But Kevin the troll is too stupid to know this because these same corporations have done all in their power to steal the public infrastructure real Americans paid for, consequently destroying everything they touch… like the sorry ass-school that failed to teach him a single thing about civics. I’m skipping steps here, but Kevin the troll was just doing a “hit and run” posting maneuver and will never revisit these posts to challenge how theft leads to destruction even though a first grader can figure it out (school or no school).

So Kevin the troll, Kevin the embracer of willful ignorance, poster of tired and banal exercises in the Socratic method, low-brau goon of the neofascists and private in the keyboard komandos, can bite my liberal, fly-over state funding white ass. He can move right the fuck out of MY country.

None of those countries were socialist or communist. They were dicatorships.

Their comment was taken off and replaced with an advert. Says it all about Capitalism and this so calle3d Democracy which of course is a lie. Heard the reply get to USSR, China etc so many times before. Don’t you realise how much financial pressure was put on countries trying to become Communist and how much spying and no doubt interfering and placing of agents was done too. Perhaps and I know thios to be true, that true communism has never happened and that true communists would not want to move to USSR or China etc goodness only knows enough true communists ie Trotsky and 300 plus of his followers we4e hunted down and murdered by Stalin’s KGB and no doubt the agents placed there by super rich Capitalists to give it no chance of becom,ing truly communist. How many times does the truth about the dirty tactics used by the super rich in west and that true communists were muredered and that true communism has never been allowed to happen by the super rich selfish so and so s perhaps these are the reasons why sonme one who’s a gen communist wouldnt want to move to nay of these places