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I have read parts of that article, and while I definitely agree that multinationals are preying on the Third World, I haven't seen anything that actually proves that capitalism itself is the problem. Maybe some of the problems come from, say, government policy, or racism, or geographical disadvantage? They denounce 'savage capitalism' (which I like to call 'corporatism' and do not condone), but how about the less radical forms of capitalism? How about Adam Smith capitalism?
Capitalism doesn't work.
For the West to be rich, other continents need to be poor.
If Africa whould really stand up, Europe and America whould have to pay.
We keep them poor to maintain capitalism.
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La direction du PS au service du capitalisme sauvage
Again, they are denouncing social democracy, based on their gripes against the Belgian Socialist Party. Quebec is social democratic (correction: was, thanks to Chare$t), yet we don't have an embargo against Cuba, for example. Those two examples are what we call the straw man fallcy.
This is more personal.
The PS(or SPa) call themself 'socialistic', but don't act like that. They're more a populist party.
(They're pink, not red)
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What I mean by absolute is that they assume that communism is the *only* solution. How about all the other movements? How about libertarianism, anarchism, socialism? Or, for that matter, 'real' capitalism? How about Quebec-style social democracy? Also, what makes them think that communism will solve all the problems they describe? I know they're a political movement, but they give no point of reference.
Socialism is communism.
Today we wrongly use the term 'socialism' for 'revisionism'.
Anarchism is a more agrressive flavour.
They all have their roots in socialism(=communism).
I don't really know what libertarianism is about.
I can't know for sure that it will work, but I do know capitalism doesn't.
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One of the double standards that strikes me is the way they accuse 'capitalism' (ie. USA, Germany, Japan) of being imperialistic (I've seen that word no less than 16 times in two of their articles!), yet how could they ignore USSR's war against Aghanistan and all the East European puppet states? As for the few rich people exploiting the people, how about the elitism in the CPSU, the deep corruption of the USSR government? Just as they point out at US policies to denounce capitalism, I could just as well point at Soviet Union and dismiss communism as a totalitarian system.
The USSR doesn't exist anymore.
Lots of what went wrong was a result of the "
Who has biggest gun joke between the USSR and the USA.
I also don't consider the former USSR as pure Marxism.
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This is what I consider an extreme. Even capitalism isn't global today, so how could communism ever become global? Everyone would need to conform to a narrow set of worldviews, and I doubt this could be done short of brainwashing the whole world. Would you really want that? Isn't that one of the reasons many dislike the current system in the first place?
If it's not global, you'll get two economic systems who don't match(Like Cuba vs USA.)
[ April 23, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]