Comments on: Exploding the Myths of Socialism Vs Capitalism

By: Edie

Edie — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:58:40 +0000

Mondo,

You are right on.

By: Mondo

Mondo — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:48:31 +0000

Karl,

I’d much rather be the judge of whether or not I’m exploited and make my choices than have someone make them for me.

I don’t give a flying F**k about how much a Rockefeller or a Carnegie or a Marx made or makes. I’m concerned about how much I make. No amount of envy or dragging someone down will make me feel better. I will feel worse when I don’t have the freedom to improve my situation. Capitalism does that, socialism does not.

I’ll pick my own winners and losers, including myself. You are free to pick your’s. When You start picking mine, we’re going to have a discussion about that–probably heated. That discussion is going on right now.

Unsurprisingly, the discussions are heated between regular people (taxpayers) and Marxists who reside in the government. Expect the heat level to rise until the time that I might rise or fail again without some SOB telling me he’s helping me by limiting my choices–for my own good.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.

By: Karl Marx

Karl Marx — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:14:43 +0000

Socialists in general (I should know, I’m one of them) do believe that wealth “falls out of the sky”. That is ridiculous. The capitalist class has, ever since it came into existence, increased its capital reserves by exploiting the working class. The US government has always assisted in this process of “trickle up” from those whose labor creates wealth to those at the top, the exploiting class. Sometimes those at the top did come from a “rags to riches” type story. However, quintessential examples such as Rockefeller and Carnegie exemplify the cruel, often illegal, and armed processes that gained them their wealth. Then, they used this wealth to essentially purchase control over the government, and then use their huge capital reserves to further unbalance the playing field. American labor history has been chock full of the working classes fighting their oppressors, and then being brutally repressed. Not to mention the huge amounts of wealth created by slaves in the early years of the “republic,” and further institutionalized racism and sexism that has by no means been completely eradicated. Most of the rich were born rich. They never had to earn their vast wealth that is used to gain more wealth, so the argument that they woulod rise to the top if they started at the bottom, and were told to go out and find a job, especially as they have no experience doing real work, is ridiculous. The real myths are those perpetuated by the likes of Horatio Alger. Read some Marx and then lets talk.

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