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Re: De: I said: Capitalism >>AT LEAST AS CURRENTLY PRACTICED<< SUCKS. "Socialism" does, too."

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Ok.

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? If you now cut off one of the five legs, are you surprised when the dog can't run anymore?

If capitalism is simply having multiple vendors selling in the marketplaces then the USSR had multiple vendors in many markets, so when the USSR failed it was a failure of capitalism.

I wasn't trying to confuse you guys. Sorry for getting too exuberant! ;-)


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Re: De: I said: Capitalism >>AT LEAST AS CURRENTLY PRACTICED<< SUCKS. "Socialism" does, too."
By: Decomposed
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Thu, 22 Sep 22 1:54 AM
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fizzy:

Re: “'"Capitalism", at least as currently practiced, SUCKS. "Socialism" does, too.' I stuck "at least as currently practiced" for a reason. Multiple reasons, actually. One was to open up a space to more cleanly discuss capitalism vs socialism.”
When you review your business performance, is it your habit to identify what's right about it and then criticize that? That's what you're doing when you belittle capitalism.

I don't think it's capitalism, as practiced here, that you think sucks. I think it's corruption, anti-small-business legislation, graft, taxes and overregulation. They really do suck. But capitalism, in the few places where you can still find it, is *GREAT*.

There's not much point in criticizing it. Doing so just confuses your readers (and most of us are confused enough already) and is like identifying your best emps and then ripping them a new one. You know... 'cuz they still aren't up to your lofty standards.






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