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*reads the thread, nods at the sound reasoning he sees among innumerate members. Reads deviants comments; starts laughing.* You've missed it haven't you Deviant? Trade and capitalism is are not the same, Trade is the exchange of goods. Capitalism is a system to control the exchange and distribution of goods. Capitalism will die, is dying. A new generation is rising, an educated generation, with access to free knowledge, to communication pathways. You live in the digital information age my friend.
A system which benefits the few over the many cannot survive. Particularly in the world we live in, where the youth have access to instant communications with anyone in the world. The time of capitalism is coming to a close, a new system must be implemented. Knowledge is power and increasingly knowledge is free. The power is truly, slowly turning into the hands of the people.
You say socialism will never win in America? Yet there are those who said that slavery could not be ended, that racist laws could not be abolished. Well they have. The march of history and progress is relentless, you cannot hold it back any more than you can stop the stars from shining.
Socialism is a success but it is a corruption of socialism as true socialism is too difficult to maintain.
I remember when Obama was trying to push through his welfare reforms. You know what the Republicans did? They held up Steven Hawking as a model of why free healthcare was a bad idea, because according to them he was only alive due to private healthcare. Apparently they missed the fact he's a UK citizen and credits the NHS with the fact he has survived as long as he has, which he promptly told the world in a statement (which fox news and a shit load of other right wing news organisations failed to put out).
Deviant, I have an honest question. Does the fact that the United States of America has the WORST poverty problems of any first world country on earth not bother you at all? Does it not bother you that thousands of people in the US are starving because they can't afford food because of a system that doesn't care for them, that won't help to lift them out of poverty?
US social mobility is appaulingly lacking. If you're poor in the US its virtually garanteed you'll stay that way. The American dream is dead and has been since before the Great Depression of the 1930s, just read some Steinbeck. He makes the point most elequently.
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