[MD] Protestant Capitalism

[Platt Holden]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:23 AM, francisco albano <pacoalbano3 at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> Platt:
> > There is a huge difference between dictators and capitalists. Capitalists
> > can't round up dissidents and send them to death camps.
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> John Carl:
> > I disagree.  Russia seems to have had absolutely no trouble switching
> economic systems from Communism to Capitalism while maintaining the same
> sorts of authoritarian social controls.  And couldn't you look at the US's
> recent record as to detention and torture and admit that not every singe
> person killed by our guns and our planes is a non-innocent?  In some
> situations and for a certain time, Capitalism seems to be more efficient as
> an economic system than communism.
>


The authoritarian controls you refer to are government controls enforced at
the point of a gun. Corporations have no such legal power.

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> Paco:
> The capitalist class can round up dissidents and send them to death camps
> (and/or equivalents) because it has a State (as instrument of oppression) it
> controls and wields. There is a dictatorship of the Capitalist Class, just
> as there is a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. More, the capitalist class
> has its organic intellects (in the Gramscian sense), paid or unpaid, who
> wittingly or unwittingly support its low quality ideology, economic
> strategies and tactics, and political and military structures of
> oppression. In Russia the revisionist Communist Party is a capitalist party.
> The system has to be exposed and opposed.DQ will triumph in the end. IMO, of
> course.
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> May Yahweh bless you and keep you!
> May Yahweh let  his face shine on you, and be gracious to you!
> May Yahweh look kindly on you, and give you his peace!  (Num. 6:24-26)
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