I think what we currently have is what's called a
market failure due to lack of competition between rival political systems. Certainly there would be little argument that Communism sucks the life out of society in certain ways, but a similar argument could be made for Neoliberalism (or corporatism) , in fact thats what the definition of profit extraction is.
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If you listen to advocates of neoliberalism- on the surface it pushes all the right buttons but their claims (especially their taking credit for the last 50 years of gains which were largely due to technology and therefore apolitical) do not stand up to close scrutiny.
Neither did Communism's. I think what happened was basically that the same kinds of crooks ended up in charge under both systems, they just changed their shirts or something.
Note, I am not trying to say Mr. Moore ("Mad Mike") - who is in the video, is a crook. In my opinion he is by far one of the more articulate advocates for neoliberalism and the corporate state. However, he has been an extremely divisive figure because its a divisive agenda, fighting as it is against democracy and "mob rule" as they put it.
And if you listen to the end, the questions brought up are good ones and he never answered them.
You know what they say about the road to hell being paved with good intentions. People should know upfront that the main goal of the neoliberal agenda is putting corporations in the drivers seat, forever, basically emasculating voting and elections so they can't do anything of economic importance. And they are almost there, at least here in the US.
Another huge goal is lowering wages, a lot.
And they have no idea what people are going to do in that situation. They don't really care and certainly don't have any answers. Its going to be a big disaster that creates more problems than it could ever solve. (They just want more profits, not to help the Third World in any way as they say.)
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Quote from: Galenbo on 2017-05-11, 11:45:53>
Quote from: NANDBlog on 2016-12-22, 17:09:49 It sucks and everyone hates it.
[censored] you soviet union, its all your fault.
Blame communism. It still destroys economic activity, exactly the same way, independent of the regime that applies it.