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Corporate Communism?

Posted by Agit8r • 10/08/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: corporatism

Lack of choice, lazy, unresponsive customer service, a culture of exploitation and a small powerbase formed by cronyism and nepotism are the hallmarks of a communist system that steals from its citizenry and a major reason why America spent half a century fighting a Cold War with the U.S.S.R.

www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-ratigan/the-cost-of-corporate-com_b_312516.htm...

Makes sense, after all Marx said:

"The capitalist stock companies, as much as the co-operative factories, should be considered as transitional forms from the capitalist mode of production to the associated one"

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10/08/09

npuhalsky

ahhhh!! Just wrote a research economics paper on capitalism and poverty, what you said is so right! America's capitalist don't follow the doctrine which started the movement. If you like send me an email and I can send you the whole paper.

Contemporary capitalist forget their father, Adam Smith. Smith points out “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable”. One could argue that the majority of the population today does not live in abject poverty and it is plainly evident that is true. Smith goes on “But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavorable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies”. Accordingly, poverty reduction should be a priority, as the children reared in it will have great difficulty in competing in the workforce, which in the long term reduces profitability.

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1. 10/08/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  I posted some Smith quotes on the politics board. here is one humorous response (from an Edmund Burke fan no less )
  
  www.blogcatalog.com/politics/discuss/entry/do-you-agree-with-adam-smith#com...
2. 10/08/09
  
  jeremyjanson
  
  The trouble though, and something that Adam Smith did not live to see, is how to deal with the poverty of the Inner Cities. As a Midtown, Atlanta resident, I can tell you that the societal problems and land use issues behind Urban Poverty, by far the most toxic kind, are far worse then the economic ones, and when you resolve these the economic will resolve itself.
  
  Maybe the real problem with today's "Capitalists" is that they are Capitalist on the federal and state levels, but ignore the city level entirely or worse, go completely against their principles and advocated zoned, planned, inefficient cities that, to maximize land values, force industry out leaving behind vast brownsfield and unproductive ghetto land, and no blue-collar work or hope of any sort for the lower class. I think this goes to highlight the difference between a political party, which seeks power, and a political philosophy, which seeks an ideal.
  
  I know there's this one area called Bankhead, less then 2 miles from the city center and with several major highways running through it, and the biggest unused railyard you've ever seen. There are tons of poor people living there, and lots of unused cheap land in a strategic place, you know, textbook Industria, but there's no industry there. I don't know whether it's taxes, regulation or zoning, but it's certainly one of these that keeps good working class employment away from the people who need it most.
  
  Without industry, there are no taxes for schools, there are no jobs for the parents, there is no consumption with which to base small community business like that in wealthier areas, and the deteoriated city scape lends itself to a culture of reckless exploitation, detachment, and lawlessness.
  
  To some degree Agit8r, I don't think it's so much that Republicans represent Corporate Communism, as that all authoritarian and totalitarian systems are in the end built on a basic hypocrisy. Communism is built on greedily stealing from greedy people. Suburbia is built on the hypocrisy of demanding that no one else take from you, and taking from everybody else.
3. 10/08/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  there is some truth to that, in that suburbia has Nazi roots, as do freeways...
10/08/09

Agit8r

here was another fun thread:

www.blogcatalog.com/politics/discuss/entry/favored-framers-and-founding-fat...

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10/08/09

Agit8r

"Corporate" and "Collective" even MEAN the same thing!

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1. 10/08/09
  
  jeremyjanson
  
  Correct. Collectives and Corporates always exist, it is just a question of whether they serve themselves or the individuals who comprise them.