Savage Exploitive Capitalism As Evil As Totalitarian Communism

[TheMastersNemesis]

There is little difference between the GOP sponsored savage capitalism and Totalitarian Communism. Either way the elite of both systems benefit over the misery of the 99%. AT the top they are the same. The 1% of this country are just like the Communists in that they hoard all the benefits for themselves. The rich got their riches by gaming the system and stealing from the 99%. The idea that they earned a penny of their wealth is a joke. It should be "down with the super rich" rather than "tax the super rich".

The rich need to be put into their place. They will either share the wealth or lose it. The GOP is fully funded by these rapists. There is not a gated community that will be safe for these super rich if the 99% figures it out and goes ballistic on them.

[CAPHAVOC]

1. 100% you get it.

In both systems the wealth is concentrated at the very top. Collusion of the two is the worst of all.

[Newest Reality]

2. It seems that

we are experiencing a truly vicious circle.

In our role as "consumers" we also rely on jobs. Currently, there are critical issues concerning both employment and income that impact our motivations for change.

When multi-national corporations provide the larger part of the goods and services, they not only increase their profits and wealth, they correspondingly increase their political and cultural power and we lose those powers in proportion to their gains.

We could effort to "starve the beast" and might, collectively, have a dramatic impact on the gross imbalance. That is, we could all make small steps to withdraw support for corporate giants and redirect our economic output in directions that would empower us all.

The recognition of the double-bind concerning starving ourselves with the beast itself might be a place to start a dialogue that can foster a movement towards that response. This pertains to a tendency to follow paths of least resistance, (which might turn-out to be a widening road to subservient imprisonment) and recognizing our own, personal enabling behavior concerning the boardroom monster that will not obey.

Right now, we see the agitprop "job creators" moniker being applied to the mufti-nationals, (as opposed to minor players) and so, that underscores a fear that removing our support will only exacerbate the decimation of means of income for average folks. Yet, jobs go to the lowest bidders in other countries, automation continues to expand and improve, and investment capital sits in the coffers as we speak.

If we truly want to reign-in the psychopathic drive to what amounts to Earth Inc., we will also need to initially embrace the notion that life, and particularly our lives may be very different if we succeed. Change happens, no matter what. What kind of change we want is really the question and it is not about if, but when.

[dreamnightwind]

3. Great post

I suggest we attempt to stigmatize the multinationals, so consumers will reject their products as much as possible. We'll have to make do with less, but that will be the case anyway. Eventually vibrant local economies will hopefully re-emerge.

We need to do it the same way it was done to the cigarette companies. Find good and clever ways of communicating this message, equating the multinationals with sub-standard living conditions, wars, imprisonment, lack of personal freedom, and poverty.

In addition to doing this with consumer goods, we should do so with jobs. Stigmatize the jobs they offer as being against nature, bad for humans and other living things, part of the problem, digging your own grave, selling out.

For many of us this stigma already exists, but for the greater population, not so much, plenty of progress we could make on this front.

[JNathanK]

4. Finally someone who understands.

Yah, totalitarianism can come packaged in any form. There's nothing inherently good about any system, and they can all be easily perverted. I've tried explaining this many times to conservatives who claim there's this huge communist plot. There doesn't have to be crypto-communists or secret party members lurking everywhere though for totalitarianism to arise. It can easily come about through corporatist rhetoric as well, and to suspect it all from some anachronistic source and to have a blind spot for it coming from people who use free market language is self limiting.

Yes, a rich person hoarding all property and all power is just as dangerous as party officials doing the same thing.

They figure that monopolizing property is just fine just as long as a political super state is doing it. When its a corporation doing it, that corporation is subject to individual ownership rights like anyone else.