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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 09:09 AM Original message |
Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball - Capitalism is Dead, But We Still Dance With the Corpse |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
1. Somehow Bageant always makes me feel better. |
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4dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
2. consumerism is dying and most people don't know it |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 09:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Not if you are prepared for the changes or have kept your eyes on the horizon. |
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maryf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
4. http://www.joebageant.com/ |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
5. Oh its so bad, but what are we going to do..... *Crickets* |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 10:22 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. You are descended from victims of STALINISTS |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 10:36 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Since we don't have unregulated free markets are you going to stop calling us Capitalists |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 10:46 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Not really. Socialism as a system covers a LOT of ground |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 10:52 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. So we are Capitalist despite not having unregulated free markets |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 10:58 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Who will institute the economic policies |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 12:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. So you are going to keep pushing that we have a capitalist system despite our lacking unregulated... |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 06:54 PM Response to Reply #16 |
29. Are system is capitalist. You are using the test of complete unregulation |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 12:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Capitalism is not about markets, it's about who owns the means of production. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 06:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. in truth, capitalists want free markets in capital & regulated markets in labor. |
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stuart68 (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 02:50 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. So, Marx and Lenin should be emulated ? |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 06:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
31. The Soviet Union was not communism it was state-run capitalism |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 10:30 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Not really. Fascism is state run capitalism. The economic system in the old SU was not privately |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 06:50 PM Response to Reply #5 |
28. I so agree. Why listen to the man yelling "fire, fire" if he has no fire truck. I assume you have a |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
6. "Capitalism is Dead, But We Still Dance With the Corpse" |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 10:13 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Right now finance makes up 42% of GDP, and is rising, he says. |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 10:15 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Toss in the health "care" biz and the military....and you've pretty much got our economy. |
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Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-12-10 06:29 AM Response to Reply #8 |
34. 42% or 47% after single-payer. |
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varelse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
11. K&R |
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Tumbulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
15. wow, I love him too |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
17. k & r |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
18. Bageant is right one, as usual! |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
20. K & R nt |
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DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
22. K&R!!! |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-12-10 10:08 AM Response to Reply #22 |
36. Good Orwell quote |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
23. kick.....r 2 |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
24. This was a long read, but especially good |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
25. One more time to kill the pain... |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. Capitalism, the kind where folks are profiting off inventions |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 06:57 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. I agree about adhering to our Constitution. The Bush admin tried to |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-11-10 07:11 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Best. Post. Ever. eom |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-12-10 07:46 AM Response to Original message |
35. Love Joe, but he's been geting pretty defeatists lately. |
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Lost4words (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-12-10 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
37. I am too late to rec but here is a great big kick!! |
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