So sick and tired of cons preaching this nonsense about how nothing has brought more people out of
poverty than capitalism.
Socialism no
more than capitalism need be a substitute for theistic religion, and it is worth noting that capitalist ideology, for all its alleged «realism,» just as easily succumbs to this danger.
Actually, Jesus» pragmatic teachings were far more compatible with theoretical
Communism than Capitalism, especially regarding the radical redistribution of wealth and the probability of the rich getting into heaven.
None has by dint of imagination and insight created more wealth and spread it more liberally in all
directions than the capitalism much - maligned by Euro - socialists.
Nationalism is no more to be confused with the principle of
nationality than capitalism is to be confused with the principle of private property.
Coming from the Pope it sounds like charity and good will but measured on a political scale it is closer to
Marxism than capitalism.
Isn't that a proof that socialism is a better
system than capitalism, at least for the majority of population?
In fact, the use of «at least» in that post should have clued you in that I was not supporting them at all, but was suggesting only they are far closer to what a sustainable economy would look
like than capitalism.
As well as being politically worthless — is there any point at all to the idea of socialism if as a system it is not more
democratic than capitalism?
In 2009, Thiel wrote that women's suffrage had rendered American democracy incompatible with capitalism, and that democracy,
rather than capitalism, ought to go.