Ricktloml wrote:
Capitalism doesn't have a 112 million body count, didn't arrest and torture people and keep the prisoners in their own country. No system is perfect, but capitalism has moved more people out of poverty and made them upwardly mobile than ANY other system. And it doesn't systematically murder it's citizens, like EVERY leftist country has done. You asked what the left has done that the right hasn't to fundamentally damage society, and there is STILL no comparison between the two. Funny how leftists excuse murder, imprisonment and torture. Not ALL capitalists are greedy, but ALL leftists want to suborn the individual to the collective, and they ALL lie about an achievable "utopia"
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If "EVERY" leftist country systematically murders it citizens, they "excuse murder, imprisonment and torture", doesn't that seem contrary to the ideology of a "utopia"? On the one hand they murder, torture, imprison its citizens then tell them this is utopia? I don't think so. Evil is as evil does, it just depends if it falls on the right side of history. As they say, history is written by the winners and the winners get to decide who is evil.
Wasn't the capitalistic US that killed untold numbers of Native American men, women and children and stole MILLIONS of acres of their land and then handed over to the white slave aristocracy? Think Jackson and his war against the Creek and Cherokee.
http://www.alternet.org/culture/six-most-evil-presidents-us-history http://wariscrime.com/new/the-13-most-evil-us-government-human-experiments/Isn't it the capitalistic US that imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in the world? A capitalistic privately owned prison system with more prisons than anywhere on earth that lobbys for more and more stricter sentencing laws. Some 2.2 MILLION incarcerated, many for non-violent crimes like drug possession.
Isn't it the left that leads the debate against the torture of prisoners of war? Isn't it the left that screams against police brutality. Isn't it the left that promotes the welfare state that helps the poor.
The deaths caused by capitalism are usually the result of capitalist constructions, be they systemic poverty, imperialism, Atlantic and post-Atlantic slavery, etc.
What happens when the capitalistic US slaps sanctions on another country? Who suffers? Not the elite of that country but its civilians.
Capitalism is a structure in which the rich enslave the poor through waged work. It also kills people from other countries for their resources.
As Voltaire said: “The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
In the end I don’t see much difference with other tyrannic forms of government. At least communism assumes its tyranny. Capitalism feeds you the illusion of prosperity and freedom.
In the US capitalism=corporate/government collusion.
Now, tell me again, who gets to write history?