RE: are you left,right or centre?
February 9, 2009 at 12:54 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2009 at 1:00 pm by bozo.)
(February 8, 2009 at 7:33 pm)LukeMC Wrote: Not to bring up old posts but I do have a question
(January 1, 2009 at 3:59 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Criticism accepted bozo, but I'm afraid I don't see any other system that (a) works, and (b) is better than capitalism. If you can suggest a better system and an example of it working I would be happy to look into it more.
What does it mean for a system to "work"?
Depends on your perspective I suppose. The small number of mega mega rich who " own " a huge percentage of the wealth of this planet will see nothing much wrong with capitalism. It " works " for them.
And so on down the scale of wealth until reaching a point where the underclasses who own nothing do not see capitalism " working " for them.
Somewhere along that scale are people like me, I own a few things but I am closer to the underclass ( my wealth could go tomorrow ) than I will ever be to the mega rich. I think that capitalism definitely doesn't " work " for the benefit of all, that is why I am a socialist.
chatpilot,
I get what you say.
My point is that in your country and mine, we used to have a choice between " left " and " right " agendas, come election time.
Since the demise of communism in Russia, the major parties in your country and mine compete to continue with a capitalist programme.
Even when it's in the crisis it is today!
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
