- 16 May 2015 14:28
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They may have started because of cultural origins during the mercantilist era, but they continued in the capitalist era because they made money for the capitalists. Capitalism loves slavery, cultural genocide, dictators, and union busting because these things make money, which is why some of these things are still happening in our global capitalist society.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...
Ahovking wrote:Things like Slavery, destruction of indigenous cultures and peoples are more cultural issue caused by old cultural thinking not economic theory/system.
Limiting wages, The ongoing theft of indigenous lands, limited freedoms of state owned Unions, Gov't support or tolerance of private security forces attacking citizens and workers etc were present under socialist systems as well and is not a systemic problem of a single economic theory/system.
Wrong, we currently live in a Mix economic system sliding to state capitalism, where we have capitalism as a base and build socialist pillars for the walls,
They may have started because of cultural origins during the mercantilist era, but they continued in the capitalist era because they made money for the capitalists. Capitalism loves slavery, cultural genocide, dictators, and union busting because these things make money, which is why some of these things are still happening in our global capitalist society.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...