Reply #23: Read an editorial on DU a while back discussing this issue [View All]

[scarletlib]

Now that Communism is essentially defunct as an economic system, there is nothing to "hold back" the worst aspects of capitalism/corporatism.

As long as the Communist System was viewed as a potential alternative to Capitalism, the government/business community regulated the worst aspects of capitalism to show to the world that capitalism was the better system for all concerned.

Now there is no check on that system and we see the effects. There is no reason that any of us anywhere should not be entitled to work a 35 hr work week. There is no reason why we shouldn't have decent vacations and benefits. But Capitalists now see no checks to their power and therefore have no desire to do right by the working man/woman.

It will take a catastrophe of some sort and the threat or actually rise of another economic system to change this.