Why I Hate Capitalism
At my local mall – large indoor retail complex, for English readers – I was confronted by a woman in bridal attire holding a clipboard and instantly assumed she intended to sell me something; moreover, I was right. Is this the kind of atrocious marketing our democratic ideologies have spawned, by regarding the acquisition of private goods as principal above all else and immune to commonsensical reflection, I asked myself, morosely. I can’t even go shopping without being sold things now – I’m scared to leave the house.
Today however, I needed to buy a quantity of white shirts for recreational purposes, as man is wont to do, and found myself, after an improbable chain of events, beguilingly close to the city centre; steadying myself and removing several unnecessary layers of clothing, I entered Westfield’s unnaturally warm temple of consumerism, determined to remain an atheist. But alas, before I could reach my predetermined destination of low-priced apparel, my course was diverted by an appealing mannequin; SALE, 70% OFF, read the ironically oversized sign on its torso. “Why, this is nought but deplorable” I ejaculated, liberally furious, “there’s no sale here.” There were four or five lurid, hideous specimens of the abdominal garment hanging from a rusty, temporary clothes-rack. “You’re too late, sir,” (I assure you he said sir) “our sale items were diminished significantly in the past hour.” “Your exterior visage would suggest otherwise, nonplussed member of the proletariat!” I retorted. I was racked with sufficient vexation to induce my exit from the store right away; but that instant an upper-carcass sheathing, with its fashionable integrity, attracted me to stay.
“Why tell me good sir, what is the ransom on that leather jacket, just there?” (I had acquired this very information autonomously, but felt obliged to reconcile any disharmony, caused by my previous outburst, between the shopkeeper and myself.) Whether it was the ‘popular music’ bursting from the outlet’s gramophone, or the ‘funky atmosphere’ generated by a variety of ingenious entrepreneurial techniques, I suddenly felt compelled to buy something – relinquish my ‘hard earned dough’ to the faceless pocket of capitalism. ‘Get out of there, Chris,’ screamed my sceptical and probably socialist subconscious, ‘don’t let them subordinate you to Reaganism!’ “It’s seventy of the Queen’s pounds, mate,” offered the humble clerk. “Perusing its label led me to a different conclusion, mate, does it not read twenty before my very eyes?” “Oh, well some of those labels are outdated now. It’s definitely seventy, mate.” I was outraged at this fiendish, manifestly obvious scheming; was I to have surrendered such a sum in innocence, had I not possessed an inquisitive soul? I determined to leave the store with dignity and bank balance intact and green. Except suddenly I was sweating profusely from every pore; my limbs flailed uncontrollably; my temples throbbed – I still wanted the jacket. But why oh why? Did it have shoulder pads, was it made of tweed, did it match any of my other clothes – which were all made of tweed – no, it patently did not. What possessed me was only lust for expenditure, and aroused in me were inclinations to perpetuate the current economic system, by becoming a consumer.
Oh, but if only Marx had not a ridiculous growth of facial hair, and we could take him seriously, for I would not now be in possession of four square feet of dead cow, which I feel obliged to wear now and then. I too have suffered the result of reckless capitalism, a hankering for fiscal growth. Have we learnt nothing from the successful socialist states of…of…?
Chris Ashby
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Where Did All The Hate For Capitalism Come From?
Who started spreading all the hate ? Capitalism is what made us so great! Capitalism is why other countries have grown so much! Without Capitalism we would be a poor world. Was this started by Radical Islam to destroy us? Osama said he would destroy us from within.
Lazy hippies that want me to support them.
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Typically from the young, idealistic and naive..
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It is not capitalism that is bad, it is all the crooks and politicians who game it for their own greedy purposes that so many of us have a problem with.
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Because the failed policies of the Bush Administration spelled the end for capitalism. Good riddance. We are in the 21st century where Americans and people around the globe are more open-minded than ever about the teachings of Karl Marx. It also helps that teachers and professors are beginning to look at socialism and even communism in a more favorable light. Students today aren’t brainwashed by narrowminded anti-Communist propaganda like they were during the Cold War. We are receiving a real, broad-minded education instead of one based on lies and hatred for races, religions and ideologies different than ours.
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I blame public education.
And for non-comprehenders, consider that in psych educations, it is being taught that adolescence has been extended to the mid-20′s. Why do we think that is? Probably, it takes that long for brainwashed kids to realize that life is not fair. It’ll take another 10 years for these people to become conservatives, because that’s when they’ll want to own some things and realize that as much as they pay in taxes, they cannot.
Then there’s the hopeless ne’er-do-wells who forever blame their misfortune on anyone and everyone but themselves.
Added for Carl Marks: You are aware that currently the US is buying many of our goods and many of our services from nations who do allow children to work, pay people peanuts, do not have OSHA regs, do not have limits on hours worked (provide breaks and lunches, etc.) and do not have federal EPA guidelines. You are aware of our inability to compete as contributes to this economic crisis, are you not?
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Give me a break, Count! The US hasn’t seen laissez faire in our life-times. lol
What’s the alternative?
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Obama Liberals, communist, anti – American teachers in out schools.
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The real hate is with laissez faire Capitalism. Unregulated Capitalism will ALWAYS end up being a disaster. We need Capitalism with common sense.
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Right-wingers who want to demonize anyone who doesn’t agree with elitist running our country for the benefit of a very small minority.
Capitalism is what led to unregulated credit default swaps and the near collapse of our entire economy.
and BTW sanitation, clean water and sewage is what made our country so great, and I don’t see that being capitalism considering the government owns it and bills us for it.
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Capitalism SUCKS.
I would rather put a fellow human being before dollar signs anyday.
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Karl Marx, a political thinker of the 19th century who invented communism
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This is just a swing of the pendulum. Unfettered, deregulated Capitalism just proved itself to be a spectacular failure – but we will never get rid of it completely.
We will just spend the next few decades trying to undo the damage they did to our country and economy, and hopefully keep a better eye on the pinheads next time.
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Leftist socialists who have created a hostility in the public towards rich people and big business. It is easier for their supporters to blame Wall Street than themselves for the pathetic state of their lives.
To succeed in a capitalist environment, you actually have to work. You can’t just sit at home watching Oprah and eating your free government cheese.
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That would be a great point to use against non to semi-capitalists, but, while Osama is in favour of sharia law, he also approves of the free trade system. He is as much as a capitalist as you are.
For the record, the only country which comes close to a pure capitalist nation is Saudi Arabia. If it wasn’t for socialism, public hospitals, police forces, firefighters and transportation wouldn’t exist.
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Be Jealous
Capitalism – or rather – NON believers! WE, the NON believers, believe in the future, whereas the BELIEVERS ARE STILL LIVING IN THE PAST, It has nothing to do with them envying us for our so-called wealth, THEY have all the oil, and many of them DO live in luxury, although they would NEVER let an outsider see it! Their’s is a secretive world. Women hide behind veils and closed doors, They look down their noses at the way OUR women dress and conduct their lives, but!!! surprise, surprise! THEY step foot on our Western territory, and believe me! they take advantage and enjoy ALL our FAULTS! Bunch of hypocrits, if you ask me! Their hate has nothing to do with money, they have plenty of their own. We made a big mistake when we discovered that black gold in the Middle East. If we hadn’t they would still be riding around on camels and living like the nomads they are!
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Greed. Ever since FDR people have been raised thinking that everything good comes from the government. LBJ’s Great Society reinforced that and began to create an "underclass" of people who began to depend on the government.
Soon those people began to think that the government "owed" them a living, Owed them housing, Owed them health care and on and on and on.
Soon that underclass looked at the people who had more than they did and decided that the people that were better off were really stealing from them and they became jealous and wanted the government to take more of the wealthy’s money and give it to them.
Capitalism is the engine that generates money and wealth and the underclass decided that it was the "profit’ motive that kept the underclass in their place so they began to direct their dislike toward anyone or any thing that had more than they have.
Clever social manipulators like Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Nikolai Lenin, Che Guevara Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and others kept inflaming the underclass saying things like..Workers, Unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains….soon governments began to give the underclass more and more and more and politicians who wanted to get elected folded and prostituted themselves for votes.
Bottom line; Class Envy
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Tell that to the 12 year olds who worked in factories throughout the 19th century.
Tell that to the people who worked 7 days a week for 12 hour days up until the 1930′s.
Tell that to the people dying from the unsafe food sold before the FDA, etc.
Tell that to those who labored in unsafe working conditions, on unsafe machinery and with a complete lack of social security when something did go wrong….all very real risks till the New Deal.
Capitalism has only done GOOD when the workers had a voice. The 40 hour work week….weekends…..the middle class….didn’t come from CAPITALISM, it came from the workers having a voice, and a government working for the best interest of the people that OWN that government.
If the WORKERS do not have a voice….then there is no more horrendous form of economy than pure capitalism.
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On a modern note…..look at where the gains of technology have gone for the last 30 years. Computers have increased our productivity at an amazing rate, but only 5% of Americans have seen any gain in income (contrasted w/ cost of living).
95% of Americans make the same or less…..while our country makes more and more. Because the workers lost their voice – they don’t share in the gains they rightfully should enjoy.
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the hate for capitalism comes from the fact that the very nature of capitalism means that some people will have significantly more wealth than others. A lot of the hate comes from people who feel that they are being screwed by wealthy corporations.
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people don’t know the difference between capitalism and a mixed econony and think they are the same.
the US hasn’t been a capitalist country in over 100 years: tariffs, subsidies, fed reserve, corporate welfare, etc
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Carl Marks got it exactly right.
If it were up to capitalism alone we would all be slaves and there would be only a few rich people. Wait! isn’t it how it is now?
"Our economy produces tremendous wealth but it also produces tremendous poverty. Sure, some people can be lazy, but when large numbers of hard working people live in poverty and the middle class is shrinking, it is a SYSTEMIC, not an individual PROBLEM. There is plenty to go around, but it doesn’t adequately go around. It goes to the top, and leaves the masses to fight over the crumbs. "
"In March 2006 Forbes reported 793 billionaires in the US with combined net worth of $2.6 trillion. In March 2007 Forbes reported 946 billionaires in the US with combined net worth of $3.5 trillion. That is a 1-year increase of 19% in the number of billionaires and an increase of $35% in their net worth during a time of increasing poverty. Severe poverty is at its highest point in three decades."
http://www.lcurve.org/
Ruth: Your remarks to Carl Marks are exactly what’s wrong with capitalism around the world. We would not live like we do were it not because other people around the world pay with their working conditions for our lifestyle.
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The hatred for Capitalism comes from liberal thinkers who attribute all the world’s problems to the disparity between the rich and the poor. They view wealth as a limited commodity and decide that justice requires it be distributed equally.
Of course, this thinking is in error. However, when the economy is in the toilet and people are suffering, and all the while bankers are collecting big bonuses from the taxpayers, then people rebel.
Radical Islam cares little for capitalism or socialism. All it cares about is placing Islam in places of power, and the means matter little.
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