Whatever you choose to call it...

[uriel1972]

Capitalism, Corporatism, Post-Capitalism etc., the current dominant market system in the world is about privatising profits and socialising cost.

The governments of the world all regulate their own economy tightly or lightly as they may. The only "Free" markets exist in the imagination.

It's way past time that people call upon their governments to regulate markets to benefit more people. There will always be winners and losers.

We must strive to make societies of "haves" and "have a little bit mores" rather than "haves" and "have nots". Equality may be forever out of reach, but let's work towards a more just world.

carry on.

[alwaysinasnit]

1. Do you mean capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich????

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-why-socialism-rich-capitalism-poor-455066

[uponit7771]

4. +1,

[pat_k]

2. MLK "Where Do We Go From Here"

MLK clearly defined what we must aspire to more than 40 years ago.

With Medgar Evers, John F. Kennedy, and Malcom X already gone. And the assassinations of Martin Luther King,
Bobby Hutton, and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and of Fred Hamptom and Mark Clark in 1969, we learned how powerful the forces of racism are and how far the entrenched interests are willing to go to protect the broken system that dehumanizes and abandons so many of our fellow human beings to intolerable circumstances.

40 years later, things have only gotten worse, with the distribution of wealth more skewed than EVER before.

It is tough to, but I still hold onto the hope that sometime before I die enough citizens of this nation -- and of the world -- will hear our renewed calls and recognize that "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." (Thomas Paine)

From the Introduction of MLK's "Where Do We Go From Here" by Vincent Harding

I recalled the story of her {Fannie Lou Hamer}, questioned at the 1964 Democratic National Convention and asked about her powerful challenge on behalf of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to the convention's acceptance of segregated delegations. Did her vigorous antisegregration stand mean that "she was seeking equality with the white man?" the reporter asked.

No, Ms. Hamer firmly replied "What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and the white man up.... raise America up."

[disalitervisum]

5. always gotta equivocate

capitalism is death. fuck your markets. you want to be one of the "losers" two hundred years from now? why would equality be out of reach? the only possible reason it would be is because someone wants to dominate someone else. your post makes me want to vomit.

[uriel1972]

6. because I am old and a student of history and human

nature, not an idealist. I didn't say stop trying, I'm just too much a realist to think that perfection can be achieved. I would dearly love to be otherwise.

The danger of idealism is that it can lead to extremism and a belief that the end justifies the means. Just look at the revolutions of the past for too many examples.

I'm sorry if you think my views are unworthy, but look at your reaction for evidence.