How Socialism Could Work
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How Socialism Could Work
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#2Discusses the concept of Market Socialism, which is a hybrid system meant to avoid the worst aspects of both Socialist and Capitalist systems, while putting the goal of human fulfillment at its center.
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#3The way to "confront" "capitalism" is to enforce the law. "Capitalism" as found is totally dependent upon impunity. That fact is so corrosive, in its effects upon "capitalism"'s reputation and its environment, that it dominates all other effects. Enforce the law against business, and all at once, nothing will be as it was. Then, perhaps, there would be leisure to consider the abstract differences between various economic systems; but as long as business is crime, that is an unaffordable luxury.
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#4The way to "confront" "capitalism" is to enforce the law. "Capitalism" as found is totally dependent upon impunity. That fact is so corrosive, in its effects upon "capitalism"'s reputation and its environment, that it dominates all other effects. Enforce the law against business, and all at once, nothing will be as it was. Then, perhaps, there would be leisure to consider the abstract differences between various econ…
And how do you keep capitalists from capturing the instruments of justice and subverting them to punish their enemies?
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#5The way to "confront" "capitalism" is to enforce the law. "Capitalism" as found is totally dependent upon impunity. That fact is so corrosive, in its effects upon "capitalism"'s reputation and its environment, that it dominates all other effects. Enforce the law against business, and all at once, nothing will be as it was. Then, perhaps, there would be leisure to consider the abstract differences between various econ…
And how do you keep capitalists from capturing the instruments of justice and subverting them to punish their enemies?
Instruments of justice that are capable of being captured are not instruments of justice at all.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
And how do you keep capitalists from capturing the instruments of justice and subverting them to punish their enemies?
Instruments of justice that are capable of being captured are not instruments of justice at all.
So the law is not an instrument of justice then, right… and thus enforcing the law will do nothing to fix the problem of capitalism, since those with capital have already purchased the law?
This situation brought to you by the billionaires behind Chief “Justice” John Roberts.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Instruments of justice that are capable of being captured are not instruments of justice at all.
So the law is not an instrument of justice then, right… and thus enforcing the law will do nothing to fix the problem of capitalism, since those with capital have already purchased the law? This situation brought to you by the billionaires behind Chief “Justice” John Roberts.
Not by the billionaires, but by the Eternal Peasant, who will break a billionaire's head with the same exultant sadism as they would yours or mine.