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Capitalism is extremely fragile and does not work nor will ever from an ethical point of view, it barely work in an economic sense. Companies are always expecting to be bailed out by the government, or be given subsidies and preferential treatment and it is so easy for it all to come crashing down. And the whole system has to have lots of safeguards in place to stop it all falling apart. The whole system has to be supported on a never-ending cycle of debt and subsidy adn there must alwasy be someone at the bottem of the chain. And while capitalism has enriched millions, it has trampled millions more beneath its feet. The onus of capitalism is for you to get as much as possible, which is what we trained to do from birth in capitalist society, and that is why you will never create a caring capitalist society. Also under capitalism some people will always have better living standards than others, how can this be justified?
And religion is not there to create moral awareness. Perhaps some of it is now, but if we look at history it has always been used as a tool by the ruling class to enforce their interests and maintain their power, just look at the Catholic Church in Europe in the Middle Ages
Capitalism will always create a class of people who have less than everybody else; this is unavoidable due to the greedy mindset created by it and its fundamental flaws in division of labour.
You can look at any communist country you like and say, “it doesn’t work” but if you had read and looked at and discussed what Marx intended and how it could be applied democratically and humanely, you would see how far from what communism should be, was how it was applied by the CCCP and china
In a violent revolution (which nearly all communist transitions have been based around) a group of people will come to hold power, generally they will be unwilling to give it up and will therefore corrupt communism to their own ends, not applying it in a democratic and accountable manner, because the people involved have grown up under a violent and repressive capitalist regime they have again from birth been trained to grab as much as possible, including power over others.
Capitalism is extremely fragile and does not work nor will ever from an ethical point of view, it barely work in an economic sense. Companies are always expecting to be bailed out by the government, or be given subsidies and preferential treatment and it is so easy for it all to come crashing down. And the whole system has to have lots of safeguards in place to stop it all falling apart. The whole system has to be supported on a never-ending cycle of debt and subsidy. And while capitalism has enriched millions, it has trampled millions more beneath its feet. The onus of capitalism is for you to get as much as possible, which is what we trained to do from birth in capitalist society, and that is why you will never create a caring capitalist society.
And religion is not there to create moral awareness. Perhaps some of it is now, but if we look at history it has always been used as a tool by the ruling class to enforce their interests and maintain their power, just look at the Catholic Church in Europe in the Middle Ages
Capitalism will always create a class of people who have less than everybody else; this is unavoidable due to the greedy mindset created by it and its fundamental flaws in division of labour.
You can look at any communist country you like and say, “it doesn’t work” but if you had read and looked at and discussed what Marx intended and how it could be applied democratically and humanely, you would see how far from what communism should be, was how it was applied by the CCCP and china
In a violent revolution (which nearly all communist transitions have been based around) a group of people will come to hold power, generally they will be unwilling to give it up and will therefore corrupt communism to their own ends, not applying it in a democratic and accountable manner, because the people involved have grown up under a violent and repressive capitalist regime they have again from birth been trained to grab as much as possible, including power over others.
This rant could go on forever, but I have run out of marmalade for my toast.
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