The Capitalist System Is Decaying Because Of Its Own Contradictions

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  1. james M

    james M Banned

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    it's a free Republican county so millions of experiments are done, even to control for benefit of Holy Ghost, but ffree people always switch back to Republican capitalism because it works best. Sorry to rock your world.
     
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    I have a choice of believing a successful person with a Doctorate from Yale, or a poster on a political forum, and either case with the background of my own 6 years of college. Who do you suspect I'll choose to believe?
     
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    This made me smile!

    If you think you can understand political economy via the dictionary then there is no hope!

    Phew

    You said nothing here. Look up the definition of 'useless' in the dictionary...
     
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    This is meaningless. It is just important in capitalism. You pretend relevance to inflate your own ego, nothing more.

    You'll tell me 2 plus 2 equals 4 next!

    This is bluster. Unless you know how the capitalist system operates you just have stuff like "I likes social democracy I does"

    Tax matters? Crikey, welcome Sherlock!

    Its not that simple as tax is secondary (but of course linked). What is important is ownership and how it impacts on social mobility. All that socialism stuff you ignore when you talk bobbins about social democracy...
     
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    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Ad hominen bullshat.

    Moving right along ...
     
  6. Reiver

    Reiver Well-Known Member

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    Just reference to reality. I know you understand that. I also know you ignored the rest of the post because you did. God bless!
     
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    of course if true you would not be so afraid to name your best example despite being asked 15 times. What are you learning from your fear?
     
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    If you think you can understand political economy -- or anything else -- by ignoring the dictionary definitions of the relevant concepts and just making up new ones, then there is no hope.
    It says, "Reiver."
     
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    Your error is in choosing someone to believe, rather than deciding for yourself what is more believable. As Henry George said, "In nothing trust to me."
     
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    Don't forget to sell your BSc Political Economy (Learning Outcomes: You will read the dictionary. Well done).

    At least try and be amusing. I appreciate you're miffed that you can't compose a relevant response. But that's when you should at least try and be imaginative.
     
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    Cute. We all believe many things. Some are founded in fact and some in hope. Some in fear and some in propaganda. So what you said is devoid of significance.
     
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    Disingenuous pontificators who ignore dictionary definitions of economic terms and yet pretend they are talking about economics aren't economists, either.
     
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    Good point here. I don't think I can count the economists who said "I'm here cos of the dictionary"...
     
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    No, because the car did not exist before someone made it, and therefore no one had a liberty right to use it. Natural resources (land) did, so they did.
    Communists and capitalists are united in denying there is a relevant difference between natural resources and products of labor.
     
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    I was talking about property in privilege, like land titles, bank licenses and IP monopolies, not products of labor like cars. Remember?
     
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    don't ignore them at all just have the IQ to realize when limited to a few words a dictionary says very very little about complicated topics
     
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    What on earth are you trying to say here? Are you going to refer to Marxist labour theory of value? Are you going to ramble on about capitalism and Georgism? Give us something coherent!
     
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    whats the difference as long as both are
    freely bought and sold???
     
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    he is a libcommunist so how can he be coherent?
     
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    Think before you type perhaps? There is no such thing as libcommunist. Folk can type "there is such thing a thing as libcommunist", but the reader will assuredly conclude that such folk are cretinous
     
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    as long as the guy who made the car freely sold it to a guy to use then the guy who bought it has the liberty to use it. 1+1=2. If that was an argument for communism I suggest you start over. See why we say liberalism is based in pure ignorance?. Is any other conclusion possible?
     
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    well Hillary was a liberal and then she endorsed Sanders, a communist, as do most liberals so they can fairly be called libcommunists. Do you prefer
    commielibs?
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    ?? communists believe natural resources and products of labor are public property, capitalists don't. You honestly didn't know that?
     
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    This is your political bent. It isn't just nonsensical, its alien to any relevant application of political economy. Why do you think clear ignorance of basic economics will strengthen your argument? Seems weird to me, but I'm not part of the post-truth garbage that you fellows are experiencing.
     
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    actually when you learn that Bernie endorsed Hillary's economics you have learned a fact not my political bent. Seems like you should embrace your libcommieism rather than run from it.
     

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