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Capitalism

Saw a topic about Communism awhile back, thought Capitalism should have one to.

I can't wait to see what Rebelnerd will have to post about Capitalism.

I myself will post something meaningful and philosophical later.

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Damn capitalists and weak ass taxes and 'high-society living'

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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself." The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
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HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes." The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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eh if it was used the way it is suposed to it aint bad.

life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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classclown Wrote:eh if it was used the way it is suposed to it aint bad.
I agree, although the same could be said for communism. I just fell and hit my head against the wall so I'm in no condition to post a huge reply. I'll deal with this later, don't worry.

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classclown Wrote:eh if it was used the way it is suposed to it aint bad.
No, you're wrong, a 100% free market doesn't work, since Regan deregulated airlines, they haven't made a cent.

Now, capitalism is by it's nature, a semi-exploitative economic idea, it tends to create an extremely wealthy upper class, and fucks over everyone else. If people were more willing to help others, it would work better, but capitalism also breeds a me,me,me mindset.

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the point of a 100% free market is that the goverment doesnt get involved. if they goverment didnt get involved greedy ceos wouldnt do dumb shit cause they wouldnt be bailed out.

life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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They would, in legit economics, greedy ceos make their money, set it in an offshore bank.

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not all of it.

life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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Yeah, they'd take a hit of 100,000,000 vs. 100,000,000,000...

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I think no system (including economical ones) can be perfect, because humans are just too fucked up a race. However, when it comes to the basic question right vs. left, I lean right (and I'm using left and right in their European meanings-economics only). However, here's the thing.

I believe that if the government steals half your money in taxes (it really is half. Many people only count the income tax, but forget about the fact that there's sales tax, and products would be cheaper if their producers and retailers didn't have to hand over profits to the governnment), then it should at least give it back in some form. Therefore, though I don't support the existance of a state, if there is one it better provide stuff like welfare, healthcare, and such.

However, I would prefer individualist anarchism. Traditional anarchism is leftist, but I believe economic freedom is an unalienable one. If the state didn't get involved, a truly free market wouldn't have the icky stuff a hybrid one does (like huge unnatural monopolies) and wouldn't create the social problems it does (due to everyone having the freedom to achieve their maximal potential, exactly how they want to).

Note: The first two paragraphs are something I'm really sure of and can argue to death. However, the last one I'm not sure about yet: still forming my opinion on different economic systems. I'm willing to listen to any counterarguments Wink

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the forgotten Wrote:
classclown Wrote:eh if it was used the way it is suposed to it aint bad.
No, you're wrong, a 100% free market doesn't work, since Regan deregulated airlines, they haven't made a cent.

Now, capitalism is by it's nature, a semi-exploitative economic idea, it tends to create an extremely wealthy upper class, and fucks over everyone else. If people were more willing to help others, it would work better, but capitalism also breeds a me,me,me mindset.
100% free market is bullshit, but a all-controlled economy is just as bad. I'm for a free market, with regulations, course.

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Communism and Capitalism are not complete opposites...

Capitalism is descended from an older system, Specialization. Communism was a response to counter the bad parts of Capitalism but kept all the elements of Specialization.

Without a government, or a regulated money supply, the elements of Specialization will eventually fall apart, For individualist anarchism to work you'd need whole a new market system.

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you'd THINK that communism, letting the government control everything is a good thing to an average man, but it fails when u realize a docter is getting paid the same as a janitor, and its government is EXTREMELY conformist, if u dont agree with the government, the secret police come and kill you, plus it cuts you out with contact from outsiders

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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself." The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes." The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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TrueAnarchist Wrote:you'd THINK that communism, letting the government control everything is a good thing to an average man, but it fails when u realize a docter is getting paid the same as a janitor, and its government is EXTREMELY conformist, if u dont agree with the government, the secret police come and kill you, plus it cuts you out with contact from outsiders

'Fairness' dosen't mean the same as 'Equality'
Fucking twat, lrn 2 communism, and lrn 2 anarchy.

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the forgotten Wrote:
TrueAnarchist Wrote:you'd THINK that communism, letting the government control everything is a good thing to an average man, but it fails when u realize a docter is getting paid the same as a janitor, and its government is EXTREMELY conformist, if u dont agree with the government, the secret police come and kill you, plus it cuts you out with contact from outsiders

'Fairness' dosen't mean the same as 'Equality'
Fucking twat, lrn 2 communism, and lrn 2 anarchy.


u can't b an Anarchist AND a communist

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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself." The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes." The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself." The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes." The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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TrueAnarchist Wrote:u can't b an Anarchist AND a communist

Fuck'd ass cunt

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism

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OK I guess, but i'm staying with regular Anarchy

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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself." The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes." The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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TrueAnarchist Wrote:OK I guess, but i'm staying with regular Anarchy
Too bad you're not a real Anarchist.
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Too bad you're not a real Anarchist.


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Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself." The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes." The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
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The idea of free markets is bullshit. It's not that I don't believe in free markets, I do, trust me, but the taxes and the cooperation of government and corporations is a complete hindrance to society in general. But it doesnt address the real problem: Hunter gathering societies tend to be the most efficent because they don't have to fall into this bullshit economic system of communism vs socialism vs fascism vs capitalism. Fuck it.

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Ahab Wrote:The idea of free markets is bullshit. It's not that I don't believe in free markets, I do, trust me, but the taxes and the cooperation of government and corporations is a complete hindrance to society in general. But it doesnt address the real problem: Hunter gathering societies tend to be the most efficent because they don't have to fall into this bullshit economic system of communism vs socialism vs fascism vs capitalism. Fuck it.

So...Anarcho-primitivism it is?

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the forgotten Wrote:it tends to create an extremely wealthy upper class, and fucks over everyone else.

A good point, ruined by the fact the biggest supporters of capitilism (US, UK, Australia, etc...) also tend to have the largest middle classes.

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But would you say the midle class is dong well? No, they get fucked by corporations.

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not when the middle class works for the corperations.

life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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That's when they get fucked most.

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um not. usally corperation fight over the bettter worker. which means middle class ends up with good benefits and pay.

life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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