RE: What do you think about the police?
December 9, 2022 at 3:23 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2022 at 3:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Capitalism, the private ownership of the means of production.
Communism, the public ownership of the means of production.
Did GB have a broadly capitalist economy at the time? Yes. Was that form of economic organization the cause of the blight, or the famine. No. Strong measures were taken to ensure that capitalism could not undermine british health and wellbeing- at the expense of the irish. I believe the phrase is "god caused the blight, england caused the famine"....?
It was by following the rule of those laws, that the english secured their goods, and by those laws the irish lost what little they had left - leading to diaspora.
If we posited an alternate universe where GB had a largely communist economy at the time - and all other things and actors being equal - they would have done the same thing - as it was the english public that the anti-irish measures were taken to protect. Effectively seizing irish means of production, for the british publics good. It was believed to be better that many irish died or fled, than that an englishman paid more for bread.
Communism, the public ownership of the means of production.
Did GB have a broadly capitalist economy at the time? Yes. Was that form of economic organization the cause of the blight, or the famine. No. Strong measures were taken to ensure that capitalism could not undermine british health and wellbeing- at the expense of the irish. I believe the phrase is "god caused the blight, england caused the famine"....?
It was by following the rule of those laws, that the english secured their goods, and by those laws the irish lost what little they had left - leading to diaspora.
If we posited an alternate universe where GB had a largely communist economy at the time - and all other things and actors being equal - they would have done the same thing - as it was the english public that the anti-irish measures were taken to protect. Effectively seizing irish means of production, for the british publics good. It was believed to be better that many irish died or fled, than that an englishman paid more for bread.
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